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This article is from the hair loss research http://www.hairloss-research.org/UpdateMilkandDHT5-11.html
This is horrible for male pattern baldness sufferers who consume MILK
In a prior update we featured how wheat, the primary grain consumed in Western culture can actually cause/aggravate hair loss in those genetically pre-disposed to male pattern baldness, Wheat Consumption linked to Hair Loss. Dairy, another Western dietary staple for thousands of years can apparently aggravate androgenetic hair loss via several identified mechanisms as well. Milk consumption has been specifically and conclusively identified as a causal variable in the pathogenesis of acne, which has an almost identical etiology to male pattern baldness.
Several large-scale studies reported in the American Journal of Dermatology found a causal connection between milk consumption and acne. One study found that those who consumed two cups of milk a day had 54% higher chance of developing severe acne.
This pertains to milk consumption in its purest of forms. Add to that the addition of hormones, anti-biotics and allergenic proteins, and the already bad news gets even worse.
Studies on acne and dairy were conducted on both teenagers and adult populations. We have gotten a substantial amount of feedback from both young and older people dealing with androgenetic hair loss that both skin and hair loss improve after eliminating dairy.
So how exactly is it that dairy looms so problematic for hair ?
By several mechanisms, it seems.
[SIZE=+1]Milk increases DHT[/SIZE]
Commercial milk largely comes from pregnant cows.
This milk contains dihydrotestosterone (DHT) precursors, including 5a-pregnanedione and 5a-androstanedione. For both acne and hair loss DHT is bad news. DHT also stimulates the production of more sebum, which is a direct indication of localized 5AR activity, a classic trademark of both acne and male pattern baldness.
[SIZE=+1]Insulin resistance, Hair loss, and Milk.[/SIZE]
Excess Insulin and/or insulin resistance has been conclusively implicated in both acne and male pattern baldness.
Simply put, even a slight elevation of insulin levels equals higher rates of hair shedding and acne. Elevated insulin by itself up-regulates sebum emission, and correlates with higher DHT levels.
The dairy industry`s own studies confirm that milk consumption raises insulin levels.
Zeitschrift für Ernährungswissenschaft Volume 26, Number 1 / March, 1987
Blood glucose and plasma insulin responses to fat free milk and low-lactose fat free milk in healthy human volunteers
"The blood glucose and plasma insulin responses to test milk samples were studied in healthy normal volunteers. After an overnight fast the subjects were given 500 ml of either regular fat free milk (abt 25 g lactose) or 500 ml of new low-lactose fat free milk (3.75 g lactose and 4.25 g fructose). Blood glucose levels were not significantly altered after either milk sample, but plasma insulin responses were significantly elevated after milk consumption."
[SIZE=+1]Inflammation and Dairy Consumption[/SIZE]
There is a general concensus in the scientific community that inflammation is the most significant component of the androgenetic hair loss process.
male pattern baldness has an established auto-immune/inflammatory component, which over time can result in fibrosis, which can make regrowth almost impossible to achieve.
The following excerpt from Natural News will give you a brief over-view on how dairy can unfortunately exacerbate this process.
”Unfortunately milk doesn`t have to be as pure white as fresh, fallen snow to end into your fridge. Most milk has measurable quantities of herbicides, pesticides, dioxins (up to 200 times the safe levels), up to 52 powerful antibiotics, blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses.
Most dairy cows live in miserable conditions and are riddled with infections. The cow's immune system produces white blood cells to fight off bacteria and virus. Both white blood cells, commonly referred as pus cells, and bacteria end up into milk. The dairy industry calls pus cells somatic cells and refers to their presence as the somatic cell count (SCC).
In a study of milk sold in New York State the average SCC was 363,000 cells/ml. These white blood cells were produced by the cow to fight off the 24,400 bacteria/ml found in this milk.
If you think pasteurization kills these bacteria, think again. The milk in the study was already pasteurized. As you drink milk the bacteria, pus, herbicides and other chemicals enter your bloodstream. The immune system has to clear them out, which leads to more inflammation and potentially more acne.
Allergies are another inflammatory reaction. So anything that causes an allergic reaction may also cause acne. In milk whey and casein protein are the main allergens. Homogenization of milk puts more of these allergens into your body.
During homogenization milk is forced through small holes with tremendous pressure. This breaks otherwise large fat globules into much smaller pieces. Without homogenization the fat in milk would rise to the top. Homogenization makes sure fat globules remain evenly distributed in milk.
Unfortunately it also changes the membrane covering fat globules. The original fat globule membrane is lost and a new one is formed that incorporates a much greater portion of casein and whey proteins. These much smaller fat globules enter the bloodstream easily. This exposes milk drinkers to larger quantities of allergenic proteins.
As the immune system attacks these foreign proteins it increase inflammation through the body and can lead to more pimples.”
Many believe that dairy products are their only viable source of calcium. Nothing could be further from the truth. Better, more bio-available sources of calcium include both Almond and Coconut milk, sold by the carton, in most supermarkets. Coconut Milk in particular, due to its lauric acid content, has an added advantage of down regulating DHT, which is the opposite of what cow’s milk does.
Raw milk, despite *some* documented health benefits, can cause problems for hair and acne as well, via all the aforementioned mechanisms. If you are dealing with hair loss, you’d do best to avoid milk and dairy altogether.
It is hardly surprising that the cultures with by far the lowest incidence of male pattern baldness, and other androgen mediated disorders, ie acne, prostate cancer, traditionally have little to no dietary dairy consumption.
In conclusion, do yourself, your hair, and your health a favor and substitute a Coconut Milk mustache for a milk mustache.
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Is this article beliveable ?? I mean this article gives the impression that if you consume milk you would go slick bald in next week
This is horrible for male pattern baldness sufferers who consume MILK
In a prior update we featured how wheat, the primary grain consumed in Western culture can actually cause/aggravate hair loss in those genetically pre-disposed to male pattern baldness, Wheat Consumption linked to Hair Loss. Dairy, another Western dietary staple for thousands of years can apparently aggravate androgenetic hair loss via several identified mechanisms as well. Milk consumption has been specifically and conclusively identified as a causal variable in the pathogenesis of acne, which has an almost identical etiology to male pattern baldness.
Several large-scale studies reported in the American Journal of Dermatology found a causal connection between milk consumption and acne. One study found that those who consumed two cups of milk a day had 54% higher chance of developing severe acne.
This pertains to milk consumption in its purest of forms. Add to that the addition of hormones, anti-biotics and allergenic proteins, and the already bad news gets even worse.
Studies on acne and dairy were conducted on both teenagers and adult populations. We have gotten a substantial amount of feedback from both young and older people dealing with androgenetic hair loss that both skin and hair loss improve after eliminating dairy.
So how exactly is it that dairy looms so problematic for hair ?
By several mechanisms, it seems.
[SIZE=+1]Milk increases DHT[/SIZE]
Commercial milk largely comes from pregnant cows.
This milk contains dihydrotestosterone (DHT) precursors, including 5a-pregnanedione and 5a-androstanedione. For both acne and hair loss DHT is bad news. DHT also stimulates the production of more sebum, which is a direct indication of localized 5AR activity, a classic trademark of both acne and male pattern baldness.
[SIZE=+1]Insulin resistance, Hair loss, and Milk.[/SIZE]
Excess Insulin and/or insulin resistance has been conclusively implicated in both acne and male pattern baldness.
Simply put, even a slight elevation of insulin levels equals higher rates of hair shedding and acne. Elevated insulin by itself up-regulates sebum emission, and correlates with higher DHT levels.
The dairy industry`s own studies confirm that milk consumption raises insulin levels.
Zeitschrift für Ernährungswissenschaft Volume 26, Number 1 / March, 1987
Blood glucose and plasma insulin responses to fat free milk and low-lactose fat free milk in healthy human volunteers
"The blood glucose and plasma insulin responses to test milk samples were studied in healthy normal volunteers. After an overnight fast the subjects were given 500 ml of either regular fat free milk (abt 25 g lactose) or 500 ml of new low-lactose fat free milk (3.75 g lactose and 4.25 g fructose). Blood glucose levels were not significantly altered after either milk sample, but plasma insulin responses were significantly elevated after milk consumption."
[SIZE=+1]Inflammation and Dairy Consumption[/SIZE]
There is a general concensus in the scientific community that inflammation is the most significant component of the androgenetic hair loss process.
male pattern baldness has an established auto-immune/inflammatory component, which over time can result in fibrosis, which can make regrowth almost impossible to achieve.
The following excerpt from Natural News will give you a brief over-view on how dairy can unfortunately exacerbate this process.
”Unfortunately milk doesn`t have to be as pure white as fresh, fallen snow to end into your fridge. Most milk has measurable quantities of herbicides, pesticides, dioxins (up to 200 times the safe levels), up to 52 powerful antibiotics, blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses.
Most dairy cows live in miserable conditions and are riddled with infections. The cow's immune system produces white blood cells to fight off bacteria and virus. Both white blood cells, commonly referred as pus cells, and bacteria end up into milk. The dairy industry calls pus cells somatic cells and refers to their presence as the somatic cell count (SCC).
In a study of milk sold in New York State the average SCC was 363,000 cells/ml. These white blood cells were produced by the cow to fight off the 24,400 bacteria/ml found in this milk.
If you think pasteurization kills these bacteria, think again. The milk in the study was already pasteurized. As you drink milk the bacteria, pus, herbicides and other chemicals enter your bloodstream. The immune system has to clear them out, which leads to more inflammation and potentially more acne.
Allergies are another inflammatory reaction. So anything that causes an allergic reaction may also cause acne. In milk whey and casein protein are the main allergens. Homogenization of milk puts more of these allergens into your body.
During homogenization milk is forced through small holes with tremendous pressure. This breaks otherwise large fat globules into much smaller pieces. Without homogenization the fat in milk would rise to the top. Homogenization makes sure fat globules remain evenly distributed in milk.
Unfortunately it also changes the membrane covering fat globules. The original fat globule membrane is lost and a new one is formed that incorporates a much greater portion of casein and whey proteins. These much smaller fat globules enter the bloodstream easily. This exposes milk drinkers to larger quantities of allergenic proteins.
As the immune system attacks these foreign proteins it increase inflammation through the body and can lead to more pimples.”
Many believe that dairy products are their only viable source of calcium. Nothing could be further from the truth. Better, more bio-available sources of calcium include both Almond and Coconut milk, sold by the carton, in most supermarkets. Coconut Milk in particular, due to its lauric acid content, has an added advantage of down regulating DHT, which is the opposite of what cow’s milk does.
Raw milk, despite *some* documented health benefits, can cause problems for hair and acne as well, via all the aforementioned mechanisms. If you are dealing with hair loss, you’d do best to avoid milk and dairy altogether.
It is hardly surprising that the cultures with by far the lowest incidence of male pattern baldness, and other androgen mediated disorders, ie acne, prostate cancer, traditionally have little to no dietary dairy consumption.
In conclusion, do yourself, your hair, and your health a favor and substitute a Coconut Milk mustache for a milk mustache.
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The impact of cow´s milk-mediated mTORC1-
signaling in the initiation and progression of
prostate cancer
Bodo C Melnik
1*
, Swen Malte John
1
, Pedro Carrera-Bastos
2
and Loren Cordain
3
Abstract
Prostate cancer (PCa) is dependent on androgen receptor signaling and aberrations of the PI3K-Akt-mTORC1
pathway mediating excessive and sustained growth signaling. The nutrient-sensitive kinase mTORC1 is upregulated
in nearly 100% of advanced human PCas. Oncogenic mTORC1 signaling activates key subsets of mRNAs that
cooperate in distinct steps of PCa initiation and progression. Epidemiological evidence points to increased dairy
protein consumption as a major dietary risk factor for the development of PCa. mTORC1 is a master regulator of
protein synthesis, lipid synthesis and autophagy pathways that couple nutrient sensing to cell growth and cancer.
This review provides evidence that PCa initiation and progression are promoted by cow´s milk, but not human milk,
stimulation of mTORC1 signaling. Mammalian milk is presented as an endocrine signaling system, which activates
mTORC1, promotes cell growth and proliferation and suppresses autophagy. Naturally, milk-mediated mTORC1
signaling is restricted only to the postnatal growth phase of mammals. However, persistent consumption of cow´s
milk proteins in humans provide highly insulinotropic branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) provided by milk´s fast
hydrolysable whey proteins, which elevate postprandial plasma insulin levels, and increase hepatic IGF-1 plasma
concentrations by casein-derived amino acids. BCAAs, insulin and IGF-1 are pivotal activating signals of mTORC1.
Increased cow´s milk protein-mediated mTORC1 signaling along with constant exposure to commercial cow´s milk
estrogens derived from pregnant cows may explain the observed association between high dairy consumption and
increased risk of PCa in Westernized societies. As well-balanced mTORC1-signaling plays an important role in
appropriate prostate morphogenesis and differentiation, exaggerated mTORC1-signaling by high cow´s milk
consumption predominantly during critical growth phases of prostate development and differentiation may exert
long-term adverse effects on prostate health. Attenuation of mTORC1 signaling by contemporary Paleolithic diets
and restriction of dairy protein intake, especially during mTORC1-dependent phases of prostate development and
differentiation, may offer protection from the most common dairy-promoted cancer in men of Western societies.
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REVIEW ARTICLE
Year : 2011 | Volume : 2 | Issue : 1 | Page : 2-5
Acne: Diet and acnegenesis
F William Danby
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery (Dermatology), Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Date of Web Publication 21-Apr-2011
Correspondence Address:
F William Danby
721 Chestnut Street, Manchester, NH, 03104-3002
USA
DOI: 10.4103/2229-5178.79851
Abstract
Acne is a manifestation of hormonal overstimulation of the pilosebaceous units of genetically susceptible individuals. Endogenous reproductive and growth hormones, exogenous reproductive hormones, insulin and endogenous insulin-like growth hormone-1, sourced from and stimulated by dairy and high glycemic load foods, all appear to contribute to this overstimulation. A postulated molecular mechanism linking food and acne is reported and integrated into the clinical picture.
Keywords: Acne, dairy, milk, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), glycemic load, androgen receptor
How to cite this article:
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History
The link between acne and diet goes back many years. Bulkley's 1887 book [1] discussed the subject and up until the 1950s, in America, restrictions on various foods, most often dairy products, were presented in dermatology textbooks as part of acne therapy. [2] The 1950s brought tetracyclines, the 1960s brought benzoyl peroxide, the 1970s brought topical retinoids, the 1980s saw isotretinoin, the 1990s were the decade of topical antibiotics, and for the past decade acne phototherapy is being touted. For almost 60 years, dermatologists have been distracted from the diet by concentrating on therapy, diverting them from achieving what Albert Kligman has called 'the ultimate goal in medical practice, namely prevention.' [3]
During this time, only one valid investigation into the dairy component of diet was performed, as far as I can determine, and that was Dr. Jerome Fisher's personal ten-year epidemiological study of over 1000 of his own acne patients in Pasadena, California. He presented a very long and detailed article in 1966, to the American Dermatological Association. Although mentioned in the newsmagazine Time, the article never appeared in the scientific literature. It was rejected for publication by a reviewer who wishes to remain anonymous, on the basis that it was unlikely that hormones could survive the processes of digestion and be absorbed in sufficient quantity to have a clinical effect. It could also have been rejected because it was too long, but it is now available athttp://www.acnemilk.com. [2]
My interest in diet was triggered by the dietary questionnaires I administered to my acne patients when I started practice in 1973. After two years, it was apparent that the only thing that showed up with great regularity was a moderate-to-high intake of dairy products. I gathered what little experimental evidence appeared in the literature over the years and when I moved to the United States in 1997, my new cohort of patients confirmed to me that this was not just a local semi-rural Canadian experience. I approached Dr. Walter Willett, Chair of the School of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, for assistance in investigating the relationship. While this investigation was being considered and undertaken, Loren Cordain, from the University of Colorado, published the first of his three articles on diet and acne, in which he correlated the Western diet with the disorder. [4],[5],[6] Despite the fact that his emphasis was on high glycemic load (HGL) food in the Western diet versus the low glycemic load (LGL) in the aborigines, he confirmed to me in a telephone conversation that the two separate tribes his team studied consumed minimal or no dairy products, indeed the Aché in Paraguay considered the practice of drinking another species' milk to be 'abhorrent'.
The study done at Harvard's School of Public Health by the Adebamowo team produced three articles, the first one in 2005, based on 47,355 nurses, and the other two in subsequent years based on the nurses' sons and daughters. In all three groups, a positive association was made between dairy products (particularly skim milk) and acne. [7],[8],[9]
Subsequently, there have been additional attempts to study the link. The articles most widely cited are those of Smith and Mann who published two articles showing a link, in small but carefully monitored prospective clinical trials, between a low glycemic load (LGL) diet and improvement in acne and biochemical markers. [10],[11] As my earlier unpublished questionnaire studies had not hinted at this area being suspicious, I was curious about the diet used and the authors kindly provided me with the details. Following a review of the diet (to be published), it now seems apparent that their study is as supportive of the view that low dairy diet improves acne as it is of their thesis, which states that it was the low glycemic load (LGL) diet that resulted in the improvement of acne lesions illustrated in their article.
Ongoing investigations and attempts continue internationally to prove the acne-diet link:
A study sponsored by the Harvard group, in cooperation with the Leeds (UK) group, was designed to look at a population of patients, after clearance with Roaccutane. Two cohorts, one dairy free and one with ad-lib dairy, were to be compared with regard to post-clearance recurrence of their acne. After 14 months of recruiting attempts and only two volunteers, the trial (NCT00132574) was abandoned when it became apparent that the prospect of having their acne return was not attractive to potential recruits.
An Internet-based study was conducted at the University of Miami, Florida, in which 1903 volunteers reported the effect on their acne of the low glycemic 'South Beach' diet (SBD). This gave quite positive results, with the acne of more than 80% of those on the popular SBD improved, prompting a reduction of acne treatment, usually within three months. [12] One of the several problems in interpreting this uncontrolled study was simply that the SBD, while basically a low glycemic load diet, did permit dairy products, so the results were not clear-cut.
A third study was conducted in New York City in a predominantly Jamaican immigrant population whose dietary staple is HGL rice. Compliance was a problem, but in a single compliant patient, there was a marked decrease in the comedonal lesion count over the study course. [13]
Just published is a study of 1285 Koreans, a population that does not traditionally consume dairy. The authors report that the IGF-1 level was significantly higher in those with acne, and suggest that, "a high glycemic load diet, processed cheese, a high-fat diet, and iodine play a role in the exacerbation of acne in Koreans." [14]
Hypothesis
How might dairy products, or food in general, impact acne? It is important, first of all, to have a working model of the induction of the primary lesion in acne, the comedo. If one visualizes the infundibular portion of the pilosebaceous unit as a tightly constrained and narrow tube, lined with a germinative epithelium actively producing keratinocytes, and contained within a constrictive sheath of PAS-positive glycoprotein (the glassy membrane), consider what happens when one increases the rate of production of these keratinocytes. Apparently, as we have all seen, a traffic jam occurs and that causes increasing pressure within the duct. As the pressure increases, the duct expands, and either bursts or reaches its limit of expansion. The increased pressure within this closed space apparently produces significant anoxia and also limits the diffusion capacity of the nutrients needed for terminal differentiation of the keratinocytes. In addition to providing a wonderful place for Propionibacterium acnes anoxia probably also inhibits the ability of the keratinocytes' metabolism to fully nourish the process of terminal differentiation, to the point where the intercellular desmosomal connections dissolve, freeing the keratinocytes to proceed up the duct where they are normally shed. These keratinocytes, unable to disengage from each other because of immaturity, become the keratinous plug we know as a comedo. For an animated look at this process, seehttp://www.acnemilk.com/acne_animation
If one accepts this postulated mechanism, then the primary question becomes, "what turns on the germinative epithelium?" The answer is simple, hormones. The mechanism, however, is not simple. The best hypothesis to date has been formulated by Prof. Dr. Bodo Melnik, in a series of recent articles. [15],[16],[17],[18],[19],[20],[21] In essence, one needs to understand that anything that sensitizes the androgen receptor and then stimulates that androgen receptor will turn on the processes that lead to acne. It is apparent that a small polypeptide nuclear transcription factor called FoxO1 is at the center of the action. In the natural resting state of an androgen-responsive cell, the androgen receptor is repressed by the presence of FoxO1. If one wishes to open up the androgen receptor so that it can be stimulated by androgens, one needs to remove FoxO1 from the nucleus. This can be done by phosphorylating the FoxO1 molecules, which renders them soluble and capable of leaving the nucleus, leaving behind a de-repressed (and therefore active and receptive) androgen receptor. The androgenic hormones present in dairy products (as well as others that are circulating naturally) can then have their natural effect on this androgen-sensitive cell's androgen receptor, thus stimulating the processes that produce sebum, or infundibular lining cell keratinocytes, or indeed hair.
Phosphorylation is accomplished by a two-step process that is induced by elevated levels of insulin or insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and is mediated by two enzymes, phosphoinositol-3-kinase and Akt kinase, so ultimately androgen sensitivity is enhanced by elevated IGF-1 and insulin.
That brings us back to the question of what might cause the elevated levels of IGF-1 and elevated levels of insulin. Much of the IGF-1 is endogenous, formed as part of the metabolic changes of puberty. There has been a great debate as to whether or not it is possible to raise one's level of IGF-1 by consuming dairy products that contain (exogenous) IGF-1 or whose consumption induces the production or elevation of endogenous IGF-1 in humans. The dairy industry is on one side of the fence and the human physiologists on the other side. [22] The fact that IGF-1 has been suspected as a cause of breast and prostate cancer explains the different spheres of interest. The question of elevated insulin levels is also complicated by the physiological response of human insulin levels to the consumption of milk. Both skim and whole milk stimulate a hyperinsulinemic response, unexplainable by the amount of carbohydrate present and unaccompanied by a corresponding hyperglycemic response. [23]
In summary, it would appear that milk is 'nature's perfect food' for the creation of acne. Not only does it induce increased amounts of IGF-1 and insulin, which together sensitize the androgen receptor in androgen-responsive cells, but it is also capable of supplying those androgen-responsive cells with dairy-derived androgens and their 5?-reduced precursors to appropriately stimulate them. At the same time, the endogenous androgens produced by the ovaries, testes, adrenal glands, and by the intracrine system of the pilosebaceous units themselves, are given open access to the de-repressed androgen receptors in these androgen-sensitive cells. However, dairy is not alone; other nutritional influences are also at work. [24]
Synthesis
The above is not intended to blame all acne on dairy. Nor is it claimed that all who consume dairy will develop acne. Certainly, there is a solid if circumstantial chain of evidence that implicates dairy products. On the other hand, there have been absolutely no articles that convincingly argue to the contrary. The hormonal link, whether it is through polycystic ovaries producing excessive androgens and their precursors; stress producing unwanted corticotropin releasing hormones; injected anabolic steroids producing acne in bodybuilders; or androgenic progestins producing acne in women exposed to medroxyprogesterone acetate; all are well established. What is new here is the activation, by active de-repression, of the androgen receptor, as a result of the downstream effects of milk, milk products, and high glycemic load foods, but only in those with a genetic predisposition to acne. [25] Milk?s strongest effector mechanism for acne resides in the protein fraction of milk, predominantly the whey protein fraction, as skim milk (nearly fat-free milk) exerts stronger acnegenic effects than whole milk. [7] Basically, anything that produces prolonged elevations of insulin will sensitize the androgen receptor and induce insulin resistance. It is worth noting that the 'transient insulin resistance of puberty', long accepted as a natural, concurrent event during puberty, may actually be enhanced by dietary indiscretions during that period of life. As an aside, one wonders whether such a 'transient insulin resistance' occurs during the pubertal years of the Cordain's Aché and Kitavan tribal populations on their low glycemic load diets. [4]
In our very early lives drinking milk is perfectly natural. What is not generally appreciated is that we actually start our lives with our natural first food laced with anabolic steroids and other growth factors. It is wholly appropriate that the androgen receptor is turned on 'full speed ahead' during this initial growth phase of our lives when the anabolic steroids in our mothers' breast milk must do their work. This natural system is optimized to fuel the highly important initial growth spurt, but it was designed to shut off upon weaning, allowing for a gradual shift to natural non-dairy food. Failure to make this shift to a natural Paleolithic-type diet, moving instead to a western diet with its high glycemic load and dairy consumption, increases the stimulus to insulin production and so induces insulin resistance. As all phases of human growth (neonatal, puberty, pregnancy, as well as cancer growth) are promoted by insulin resistance, this leads to pilosebaceous overgrowth and a high prevalence of acne in industrialized countries.
In those individuals who replace mother's milk with cow's milk, a proportion of the population tends toward obesity, grows taller, more well-muscled, and generally bulkier or more 'heavy-set' than their brothers and sisters. It is likely that the prolonged induced elevation of insulin levels in these individuals is genetically determined, like acne, and simply keeps the androgen receptors open and available for longer than nature intended, yielding a greater growth of fat mass and musculature.
This phenomenon has not been properly examined, but deserves full investigation as part of the chain of events that leads variously to the so-called metabolic syndrome X, obesity, type II diabetes, insulin resistance, polycystic ovarian disease, compromised cognition, hypertension, hirsutism, androgenetic alopecia, HAIR-AN syndrome, and even increased susceptibility to cancer of the breast and prostate gland, as well as the prototype, acne.
Future investigations
Ideally, of course, one should have a prospective randomized double blind study in a large cohort of individuals with the proven ability to develop acne, challenged with appropriate diets. The obvious problem is that it is essentially impossible to 'double blind' dairy products in a diet. Teenagers are hard to fool. It is also a major challenge to find a large cooperative group of youngsters, under the age of 18 (and thus under the age of consent) whose parents will permit the removal from the diet of something considered as traditionally 'healthy,' such as dairy products. However, as attempts are continuing, the picture is becoming clearer, and meanwhile we need to wrestle with the likelihood that those practitioners among us who choose to wait until unequivocal proof is provided are depriving their young patients of clinically useful advice.
Summary
The epidemiological link between high glycemic load and dairy food having been established, the molecular trigger appears to be based on elevations in IGF-1 and insulin. This pair of polypeptides, stimulated by dairy and high glycemic load food, and working through PI3K and Akt kinases to enable the reduction of FoxO1 levels in the nucleus, sensitizes the androgen receptor to endogenous androgens, and to the exogenous androgens and androgen precursors in dairy products. Laboratory substantiation of each link in the chain, the closest we can come to proof, is under way. Meanwhile, 'Nature's Perfect Food' also seems to be nature's perfect acnegen, and high glycemic load foods, a major part of the Western diet, are the co-conspirators.
References
1. Bulkley LD. Acne, Its Etiology, Pathology and Treatment. New York: G.P. Putnam?s Sons; 1885.
2. Fisher JK. Acne Vulgaris; A Study of One Thousand Cases. In: Fisher JK, editor. Available from:http://www.acnemilk.com/fisher_s_original_paper. [last cited in 2006].
3. Kligman A. Letter of Welcome. 2 nd International Conference on Sebaceous Gland, Acne, Rosacea and Related Disorders-Basic and Clinical Research, Clinical Entities and Treatment. Rome Sept 14, 2008.
4. Cordain L, Lindeberg S, Hurtado M, Hill K, Eaton SB, Brand-Miller J. Acne vulgaris: A disease of Western civilization. Arch Dermatol 2002;138:1584-90.
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5. Cordain L, Eaton SB, Sebastian A, Mann N, Lindeberg S, Watkins BA, et al. Origins and evolution of the Western diet: Health implications for the 21 st century. Am J Clin Nutr 2005;81:341-54.
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6. Cordain L. Implications for the role of diet in acne. Semin Cutan Med Surg 2005;24:84-91.
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7. Adebamowo CA, Spiegelman D, Danby FW, Frazier AL, Willett WC, Holmes MD. High school dietary dairy intake and teenage acne. J Am Acad Dermatol 2005;52:207-14.
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8. Adebamowo CA, Spiegelman D, Berkey CS, Danby FW, Rockett HH, Colditz GA, et al. Milk consumption and acne in adolescent girls. Dermatol Online J 2006;12:1.
9. Adebamowo CA, Spiegelman D, Berkey CS, Danby FW, Rockett HH, Colditz GA, et al. Milk consumption and acne in teenaged boys. J Am Acad Dermatol 2008;58:787-93.
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10. Smith RN, Mann NJ, Braue A, Makelainen H, Varigos GA. A low-glycemic-load diet improves symptoms in acne vulgaris patients: A randomized controlled trial. Am J Clin Nutr 2007;86:107-15.
11. Smith RN, Mann NJ, Braue A, Makelainen H, Varigos GA. The effect of a high-protein, low glycemic-load diet versus a conventional, high glycemic-load diet on biochemical parameters associated with acne vulgaris: a randomized, investigator-masked, controlled trial. J Am Acad Dermatol 2007;57:247-56.
12. Rouhani P, Berman B, Rouhani G. Acne improves with a popular, low glycemic diet from South Beach (Poster). J Am Acad Dermatol 2010;60:AB14.
13. Bowe WP, Grillo JA, Shalita AR. The effects of a low carbohydrate diet on acne vulgaris: A pilot study (Poster). Orlando Dermatology Aesthetic and Clinical Conference, Orlando FL 2010.
14. Jung JY, Yoon MY, Min SU, Hong JS, Choi YS, Suh DH. The influence of dietary patterns on acne vulgaris in Koreans. Eur J Dermatol 2010;20:768-72.
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15. Melnik B. [Acne vulgaris. Role of diet]. Hautarzt 2010;61:115-25.
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16. Melnik BC, Schmitz G. Role of insulin, insulin-like growth factor-1, hyperglycaemic food and milk consumption in the pathogenesis of acne vulgaris. Exp Dermatol 2009;18:833-41.
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17. Melnik BC. The role of transcription factor FoxO1 in the pathogenesis of acne vulgaris and the mode of isotretinoin action. G Ital Dermatol Venereol 2010;145:559-72.
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18. Melnik BC. The hypothetical role of FoxO1 is interesting, but more study is needed before any conclusions can be drawn. Br J Dermatol 2010;163:1365-6.
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19. Melnik BC. Acneigenic Stimuli Converge in Phosphoinositol-3 Kinase / Akt / FoxO1 Signal Transduction. J Clin Exp Dermatol 2010;1:101:1-8.
20. Melnik BC. FoxO1 - the key for the pathogenesis and therapy of acne?. J Dtsch Dermatol Ges 2010;8:105-14.
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21. Melnik BC. Is nuclear deficiency of FoxO1 due to increased growth factor/PI3K/Akt-signalling in acne vulgaris reversed by isotretinoin treatment? Br J Dermatol 2010;162:1398-400.
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22. Harvard School of Public Health, McGill University. Milk, Hormones and Human Health. Internet 2008 Available from: http://www.milksymposium.mcgill.ca/summary/ [last cited in 2006 Oct 23].
23. Hoyt G, Hickey MS, Cordain L. Dissociation of the glycaemic and insulinaemic responses to whole and skimmed milk. Br J Nutr 2005;93:175-7.
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24. Danby FW. Nutrition and acne. Clin Dermatol 2010;18:598-604.
25. Bataille V, Snieder H, MacGregor AJ, Sasieni P, Spector TD. The influence of genetics and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of acne: A twin study of acne in women. J Invest Dermatol 2002;119:1317-22.
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The impact of cow´s milk-mediated mTORC1-
signaling in the initiation and progression of
prostate cancer
Bodo C Melnik
1*
, Swen Malte John
1
, Pedro Carrera-Bastos
2
and Loren Cordain
3
Abstract
Prostate cancer (PCa) is dependent on androgen receptor signaling and aberrations of the PI3K-Akt-mTORC1
pathway mediating excessive and sustained growth signaling. The nutrient-sensitive kinase mTORC1 is upregulated
in nearly 100% of advanced human PCas. Oncogenic mTORC1 signaling activates key subsets of mRNAs that
cooperate in distinct steps of PCa initiation and progression. Epidemiological evidence points to increased dairy
protein consumption as a major dietary risk factor for the development of PCa. mTORC1 is a master regulator of
protein synthesis, lipid synthesis and autophagy pathways that couple nutrient sensing to cell growth and cancer.
This review provides evidence that PCa initiation and progression are promoted by cow´s milk, but not human milk,
stimulation of mTORC1 signaling. Mammalian milk is presented as an endocrine signaling system, which activates
mTORC1, promotes cell growth and proliferation and suppresses autophagy. Naturally, milk-mediated mTORC1
signaling is restricted only to the postnatal growth phase of mammals. However, persistent consumption of cow´s
milk proteins in humans provide highly insulinotropic branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) provided by milk´s fast
hydrolysable whey proteins, which elevate postprandial plasma insulin levels, and increase hepatic IGF-1 plasma
concentrations by casein-derived amino acids. BCAAs, insulin and IGF-1 are pivotal activating signals of mTORC1.
Increased cow´s milk protein-mediated mTORC1 signaling along with constant exposure to commercial cow´s milk
estrogens derived from pregnant cows may explain the observed association between high dairy consumption and
increased risk of PCa in Westernized societies. As well-balanced mTORC1-signaling plays an important role in
appropriate prostate morphogenesis and differentiation, exaggerated mTORC1-signaling by high cow´s milk
consumption predominantly during critical growth phases of prostate development and differentiation may exert
long-term adverse effects on prostate health. Attenuation of mTORC1 signaling by contemporary Paleolithic diets
and restriction of dairy protein intake, especially during mTORC1-dependent phases of prostate development and
differentiation, may offer protection from the most common dairy-promoted cancer in men of Western societies.
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this is for information purposes I am not a physician or an expert and my advice should not be considered medical/expert advice. The poster will not be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, special, exemplary, or other damages arising therefrom.
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REVIEW ARTICLE
Year : 2011 | Volume : 2 | Issue : 1 | Page : 2-5
Acne: Diet and acnegenesis
F William Danby
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery (Dermatology), Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Date of Web Publication 21-Apr-2011
Correspondence Address:
F William Danby
721 Chestnut Street, Manchester, NH, 03104-3002
USA
DOI: 10.4103/2229-5178.79851
Abstract
Acne is a manifestation of hormonal overstimulation of the pilosebaceous units of genetically susceptible individuals. Endogenous reproductive and growth hormones, exogenous reproductive hormones, insulin and endogenous insulin-like growth hormone-1, sourced from and stimulated by dairy and high glycemic load foods, all appear to contribute to this overstimulation. A postulated molecular mechanism linking food and acne is reported and integrated into the clinical picture.
Keywords: Acne, dairy, milk, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), glycemic load, androgen receptor
How to cite this article:
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History
The link between acne and diet goes back many years. Bulkley's 1887 book [1] discussed the subject and up until the 1950s, in America, restrictions on various foods, most often dairy products, were presented in dermatology textbooks as part of acne therapy. [2] The 1950s brought tetracyclines, the 1960s brought benzoyl peroxide, the 1970s brought topical retinoids, the 1980s saw isotretinoin, the 1990s were the decade of topical antibiotics, and for the past decade acne phototherapy is being touted. For almost 60 years, dermatologists have been distracted from the diet by concentrating on therapy, diverting them from achieving what Albert Kligman has called 'the ultimate goal in medical practice, namely prevention.' [3]
During this time, only one valid investigation into the dairy component of diet was performed, as far as I can determine, and that was Dr. Jerome Fisher's personal ten-year epidemiological study of over 1000 of his own acne patients in Pasadena, California. He presented a very long and detailed article in 1966, to the American Dermatological Association. Although mentioned in the newsmagazine Time, the article never appeared in the scientific literature. It was rejected for publication by a reviewer who wishes to remain anonymous, on the basis that it was unlikely that hormones could survive the processes of digestion and be absorbed in sufficient quantity to have a clinical effect. It could also have been rejected because it was too long, but it is now available athttp://www.acnemilk.com. [2]
My interest in diet was triggered by the dietary questionnaires I administered to my acne patients when I started practice in 1973. After two years, it was apparent that the only thing that showed up with great regularity was a moderate-to-high intake of dairy products. I gathered what little experimental evidence appeared in the literature over the years and when I moved to the United States in 1997, my new cohort of patients confirmed to me that this was not just a local semi-rural Canadian experience. I approached Dr. Walter Willett, Chair of the School of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, for assistance in investigating the relationship. While this investigation was being considered and undertaken, Loren Cordain, from the University of Colorado, published the first of his three articles on diet and acne, in which he correlated the Western diet with the disorder. [4],[5],[6] Despite the fact that his emphasis was on high glycemic load (HGL) food in the Western diet versus the low glycemic load (LGL) in the aborigines, he confirmed to me in a telephone conversation that the two separate tribes his team studied consumed minimal or no dairy products, indeed the Aché in Paraguay considered the practice of drinking another species' milk to be 'abhorrent'.
The study done at Harvard's School of Public Health by the Adebamowo team produced three articles, the first one in 2005, based on 47,355 nurses, and the other two in subsequent years based on the nurses' sons and daughters. In all three groups, a positive association was made between dairy products (particularly skim milk) and acne. [7],[8],[9]
Subsequently, there have been additional attempts to study the link. The articles most widely cited are those of Smith and Mann who published two articles showing a link, in small but carefully monitored prospective clinical trials, between a low glycemic load (LGL) diet and improvement in acne and biochemical markers. [10],[11] As my earlier unpublished questionnaire studies had not hinted at this area being suspicious, I was curious about the diet used and the authors kindly provided me with the details. Following a review of the diet (to be published), it now seems apparent that their study is as supportive of the view that low dairy diet improves acne as it is of their thesis, which states that it was the low glycemic load (LGL) diet that resulted in the improvement of acne lesions illustrated in their article.
Ongoing investigations and attempts continue internationally to prove the acne-diet link:
A study sponsored by the Harvard group, in cooperation with the Leeds (UK) group, was designed to look at a population of patients, after clearance with Roaccutane. Two cohorts, one dairy free and one with ad-lib dairy, were to be compared with regard to post-clearance recurrence of their acne. After 14 months of recruiting attempts and only two volunteers, the trial (NCT00132574) was abandoned when it became apparent that the prospect of having their acne return was not attractive to potential recruits.
An Internet-based study was conducted at the University of Miami, Florida, in which 1903 volunteers reported the effect on their acne of the low glycemic 'South Beach' diet (SBD). This gave quite positive results, with the acne of more than 80% of those on the popular SBD improved, prompting a reduction of acne treatment, usually within three months. [12] One of the several problems in interpreting this uncontrolled study was simply that the SBD, while basically a low glycemic load diet, did permit dairy products, so the results were not clear-cut.
A third study was conducted in New York City in a predominantly Jamaican immigrant population whose dietary staple is HGL rice. Compliance was a problem, but in a single compliant patient, there was a marked decrease in the comedonal lesion count over the study course. [13]
Just published is a study of 1285 Koreans, a population that does not traditionally consume dairy. The authors report that the IGF-1 level was significantly higher in those with acne, and suggest that, "a high glycemic load diet, processed cheese, a high-fat diet, and iodine play a role in the exacerbation of acne in Koreans." [14]
Hypothesis
How might dairy products, or food in general, impact acne? It is important, first of all, to have a working model of the induction of the primary lesion in acne, the comedo. If one visualizes the infundibular portion of the pilosebaceous unit as a tightly constrained and narrow tube, lined with a germinative epithelium actively producing keratinocytes, and contained within a constrictive sheath of PAS-positive glycoprotein (the glassy membrane), consider what happens when one increases the rate of production of these keratinocytes. Apparently, as we have all seen, a traffic jam occurs and that causes increasing pressure within the duct. As the pressure increases, the duct expands, and either bursts or reaches its limit of expansion. The increased pressure within this closed space apparently produces significant anoxia and also limits the diffusion capacity of the nutrients needed for terminal differentiation of the keratinocytes. In addition to providing a wonderful place for Propionibacterium acnes anoxia probably also inhibits the ability of the keratinocytes' metabolism to fully nourish the process of terminal differentiation, to the point where the intercellular desmosomal connections dissolve, freeing the keratinocytes to proceed up the duct where they are normally shed. These keratinocytes, unable to disengage from each other because of immaturity, become the keratinous plug we know as a comedo. For an animated look at this process, seehttp://www.acnemilk.com/acne_animation
If one accepts this postulated mechanism, then the primary question becomes, "what turns on the germinative epithelium?" The answer is simple, hormones. The mechanism, however, is not simple. The best hypothesis to date has been formulated by Prof. Dr. Bodo Melnik, in a series of recent articles. [15],[16],[17],[18],[19],[20],[21] In essence, one needs to understand that anything that sensitizes the androgen receptor and then stimulates that androgen receptor will turn on the processes that lead to acne. It is apparent that a small polypeptide nuclear transcription factor called FoxO1 is at the center of the action. In the natural resting state of an androgen-responsive cell, the androgen receptor is repressed by the presence of FoxO1. If one wishes to open up the androgen receptor so that it can be stimulated by androgens, one needs to remove FoxO1 from the nucleus. This can be done by phosphorylating the FoxO1 molecules, which renders them soluble and capable of leaving the nucleus, leaving behind a de-repressed (and therefore active and receptive) androgen receptor. The androgenic hormones present in dairy products (as well as others that are circulating naturally) can then have their natural effect on this androgen-sensitive cell's androgen receptor, thus stimulating the processes that produce sebum, or infundibular lining cell keratinocytes, or indeed hair.
Phosphorylation is accomplished by a two-step process that is induced by elevated levels of insulin or insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and is mediated by two enzymes, phosphoinositol-3-kinase and Akt kinase, so ultimately androgen sensitivity is enhanced by elevated IGF-1 and insulin.
That brings us back to the question of what might cause the elevated levels of IGF-1 and elevated levels of insulin. Much of the IGF-1 is endogenous, formed as part of the metabolic changes of puberty. There has been a great debate as to whether or not it is possible to raise one's level of IGF-1 by consuming dairy products that contain (exogenous) IGF-1 or whose consumption induces the production or elevation of endogenous IGF-1 in humans. The dairy industry is on one side of the fence and the human physiologists on the other side. [22] The fact that IGF-1 has been suspected as a cause of breast and prostate cancer explains the different spheres of interest. The question of elevated insulin levels is also complicated by the physiological response of human insulin levels to the consumption of milk. Both skim and whole milk stimulate a hyperinsulinemic response, unexplainable by the amount of carbohydrate present and unaccompanied by a corresponding hyperglycemic response. [23]
In summary, it would appear that milk is 'nature's perfect food' for the creation of acne. Not only does it induce increased amounts of IGF-1 and insulin, which together sensitize the androgen receptor in androgen-responsive cells, but it is also capable of supplying those androgen-responsive cells with dairy-derived androgens and their 5?-reduced precursors to appropriately stimulate them. At the same time, the endogenous androgens produced by the ovaries, testes, adrenal glands, and by the intracrine system of the pilosebaceous units themselves, are given open access to the de-repressed androgen receptors in these androgen-sensitive cells. However, dairy is not alone; other nutritional influences are also at work. [24]
Synthesis
The above is not intended to blame all acne on dairy. Nor is it claimed that all who consume dairy will develop acne. Certainly, there is a solid if circumstantial chain of evidence that implicates dairy products. On the other hand, there have been absolutely no articles that convincingly argue to the contrary. The hormonal link, whether it is through polycystic ovaries producing excessive androgens and their precursors; stress producing unwanted corticotropin releasing hormones; injected anabolic steroids producing acne in bodybuilders; or androgenic progestins producing acne in women exposed to medroxyprogesterone acetate; all are well established. What is new here is the activation, by active de-repression, of the androgen receptor, as a result of the downstream effects of milk, milk products, and high glycemic load foods, but only in those with a genetic predisposition to acne. [25] Milk?s strongest effector mechanism for acne resides in the protein fraction of milk, predominantly the whey protein fraction, as skim milk (nearly fat-free milk) exerts stronger acnegenic effects than whole milk. [7] Basically, anything that produces prolonged elevations of insulin will sensitize the androgen receptor and induce insulin resistance. It is worth noting that the 'transient insulin resistance of puberty', long accepted as a natural, concurrent event during puberty, may actually be enhanced by dietary indiscretions during that period of life. As an aside, one wonders whether such a 'transient insulin resistance' occurs during the pubertal years of the Cordain's Aché and Kitavan tribal populations on their low glycemic load diets. [4]
In our very early lives drinking milk is perfectly natural. What is not generally appreciated is that we actually start our lives with our natural first food laced with anabolic steroids and other growth factors. It is wholly appropriate that the androgen receptor is turned on 'full speed ahead' during this initial growth phase of our lives when the anabolic steroids in our mothers' breast milk must do their work. This natural system is optimized to fuel the highly important initial growth spurt, but it was designed to shut off upon weaning, allowing for a gradual shift to natural non-dairy food. Failure to make this shift to a natural Paleolithic-type diet, moving instead to a western diet with its high glycemic load and dairy consumption, increases the stimulus to insulin production and so induces insulin resistance. As all phases of human growth (neonatal, puberty, pregnancy, as well as cancer growth) are promoted by insulin resistance, this leads to pilosebaceous overgrowth and a high prevalence of acne in industrialized countries.
In those individuals who replace mother's milk with cow's milk, a proportion of the population tends toward obesity, grows taller, more well-muscled, and generally bulkier or more 'heavy-set' than their brothers and sisters. It is likely that the prolonged induced elevation of insulin levels in these individuals is genetically determined, like acne, and simply keeps the androgen receptors open and available for longer than nature intended, yielding a greater growth of fat mass and musculature.
This phenomenon has not been properly examined, but deserves full investigation as part of the chain of events that leads variously to the so-called metabolic syndrome X, obesity, type II diabetes, insulin resistance, polycystic ovarian disease, compromised cognition, hypertension, hirsutism, androgenetic alopecia, HAIR-AN syndrome, and even increased susceptibility to cancer of the breast and prostate gland, as well as the prototype, acne.
Future investigations
Ideally, of course, one should have a prospective randomized double blind study in a large cohort of individuals with the proven ability to develop acne, challenged with appropriate diets. The obvious problem is that it is essentially impossible to 'double blind' dairy products in a diet. Teenagers are hard to fool. It is also a major challenge to find a large cooperative group of youngsters, under the age of 18 (and thus under the age of consent) whose parents will permit the removal from the diet of something considered as traditionally 'healthy,' such as dairy products. However, as attempts are continuing, the picture is becoming clearer, and meanwhile we need to wrestle with the likelihood that those practitioners among us who choose to wait until unequivocal proof is provided are depriving their young patients of clinically useful advice.
Summary
The epidemiological link between high glycemic load and dairy food having been established, the molecular trigger appears to be based on elevations in IGF-1 and insulin. This pair of polypeptides, stimulated by dairy and high glycemic load food, and working through PI3K and Akt kinases to enable the reduction of FoxO1 levels in the nucleus, sensitizes the androgen receptor to endogenous androgens, and to the exogenous androgens and androgen precursors in dairy products. Laboratory substantiation of each link in the chain, the closest we can come to proof, is under way. Meanwhile, 'Nature's Perfect Food' also seems to be nature's perfect acnegen, and high glycemic load foods, a major part of the Western diet, are the co-conspirators.
References
1. Bulkley LD. Acne, Its Etiology, Pathology and Treatment. New York: G.P. Putnam?s Sons; 1885.
2. Fisher JK. Acne Vulgaris; A Study of One Thousand Cases. In: Fisher JK, editor. Available from:http://www.acnemilk.com/fisher_s_original_paper. [last cited in 2006].
3. Kligman A. Letter of Welcome. 2 nd International Conference on Sebaceous Gland, Acne, Rosacea and Related Disorders-Basic and Clinical Research, Clinical Entities and Treatment. Rome Sept 14, 2008.
4. Cordain L, Lindeberg S, Hurtado M, Hill K, Eaton SB, Brand-Miller J. Acne vulgaris: A disease of Western civilization. Arch Dermatol 2002;138:1584-90.
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5. Cordain L, Eaton SB, Sebastian A, Mann N, Lindeberg S, Watkins BA, et al. Origins and evolution of the Western diet: Health implications for the 21 st century. Am J Clin Nutr 2005;81:341-54.
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6. Cordain L. Implications for the role of diet in acne. Semin Cutan Med Surg 2005;24:84-91.
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9. Adebamowo CA, Spiegelman D, Berkey CS, Danby FW, Rockett HH, Colditz GA, et al. Milk consumption and acne in teenaged boys. J Am Acad Dermatol 2008;58:787-93.
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10. Smith RN, Mann NJ, Braue A, Makelainen H, Varigos GA. A low-glycemic-load diet improves symptoms in acne vulgaris patients: A randomized controlled trial. Am J Clin Nutr 2007;86:107-15.
11. Smith RN, Mann NJ, Braue A, Makelainen H, Varigos GA. The effect of a high-protein, low glycemic-load diet versus a conventional, high glycemic-load diet on biochemical parameters associated with acne vulgaris: a randomized, investigator-masked, controlled trial. J Am Acad Dermatol 2007;57:247-56.
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13. Bowe WP, Grillo JA, Shalita AR. The effects of a low carbohydrate diet on acne vulgaris: A pilot study (Poster). Orlando Dermatology Aesthetic and Clinical Conference, Orlando FL 2010.
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15. Melnik B. [Acne vulgaris. Role of diet]. Hautarzt 2010;61:115-25.
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16. Melnik BC, Schmitz G. Role of insulin, insulin-like growth factor-1, hyperglycaemic food and milk consumption in the pathogenesis of acne vulgaris. Exp Dermatol 2009;18:833-41.
[PUBMED] [FULLTEXT]
17. Melnik BC. The role of transcription factor FoxO1 in the pathogenesis of acne vulgaris and the mode of isotretinoin action. G Ital Dermatol Venereol 2010;145:559-72.
[PUBMED] [FULLTEXT]
18. Melnik BC. The hypothetical role of FoxO1 is interesting, but more study is needed before any conclusions can be drawn. Br J Dermatol 2010;163:1365-6.
[PUBMED] [FULLTEXT]
19. Melnik BC. Acneigenic Stimuli Converge in Phosphoinositol-3 Kinase / Akt / FoxO1 Signal Transduction. J Clin Exp Dermatol 2010;1:101:1-8.
20. Melnik BC. FoxO1 - the key for the pathogenesis and therapy of acne?. J Dtsch Dermatol Ges 2010;8:105-14.
[PUBMED] [FULLTEXT]
21. Melnik BC. Is nuclear deficiency of FoxO1 due to increased growth factor/PI3K/Akt-signalling in acne vulgaris reversed by isotretinoin treatment? Br J Dermatol 2010;162:1398-400.
[PUBMED] [FULLTEXT]
22. Harvard School of Public Health, McGill University. Milk, Hormones and Human Health. Internet 2008 Available from: http://www.milksymposium.mcgill.ca/summary/ [last cited in 2006 Oct 23].
23. Hoyt G, Hickey MS, Cordain L. Dissociation of the glycaemic and insulinaemic responses to whole and skimmed milk. Br J Nutr 2005;93:175-7.
[PUBMED] [FULLTEXT]
24. Danby FW. Nutrition and acne. Clin Dermatol 2010;18:598-604.
25. Bataille V, Snieder H, MacGregor AJ, Sasieni P, Spector TD. The influence of genetics and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of acne: A twin study of acne in women. J Invest Dermatol 2002;119:1317-22.
[PUBMED] [FULLTEXT]
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They put hormones and also what they inject cows with effects male pattern baldness not organic milk! It's them wank*ers adding **** into milk same with red meat orgsnic stuff is fine but nothing is organic 95% of our foods cause disease because of what they add!
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I lost hella hair in the course of 3 months after I drank a gallon of milk a day. Before that I never had any sign of hair loss. Milk sucks
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Milk cannot trigger a male pattern baldness. Milk may not be good for those who are already suffering with male pattern baldness but its not conclusive yet
who the hell drinks a gallon of milk a day, jeez, i drink about one glass and thats it
You lack no knowledge, like i stated do your homework on the hormones milk contains! It's not organic no more and yes I agree it does cause hairloss just like other factors like chlorine and flouride I can proove caused my auto immune disease AA! You know nothing
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