Mark Hyman on Acne: Canary in the Coal Mine

My good friend Mark Hyman is staying on top of the principles so necessary for all of us to move forward with better brain health. Take a look at these excellent learning opportunities:

Acne can just be the tip of an ominous lifelong iceberg:                     

Mark has a great video on Acne and metabolic implications over at his Ultrametabolism Blog, a must see for anyone thinking that pimples are just a developmental problem. There he reports about acne:

…. acne links many of the imbalances in the underlying keys to health (The 7 Keys of UltraWellness) to the real causes of acne — including your nutritional status, stress, toxicity, inflammation, and hormonal and gut imbalances.

We see these acne issues everyday at CorePsych, and chase down the real underlying culprit with further testing. -More later on PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome PCOS with acne, hormonal issues and estrogen dominance – any age, from 13 to 70 years old!

Acne is not just a child/adolescent problem.

At his UltraWellness site Mark is also dedicated to providing other interesting free metabolic information out there for everyone. I strongly suggest for entertaining and useful material that will help your body and your brain, tour over to his 7 Free Videos for excellent basic information on *systems medicine* – how all the systems, include the body and brain work together.