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Fish Oil or GLA to Treat Acne Vulgaris? Controlled Human Trial Confirms: 2g EPA + DHA or 400mg GLA do the Trick!

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If you want to know how to get of pubertal acne, you got to ask professional pubescents ;-) The study at hand is not only the first experimental verification of the efficacy of omega-3 + gamma linoleic acid supplementation in acne treatment, it's also "paleo approved", because it cites a study by no one else but Loraine Cordaine himself ;-) Don't worry, I am just kiddin' around. In spite of the fact that Cordain's study "Acne vulgaris: a disease of Western civilization" (Cordain. 2002) is in fact the #1 on the reference list, the scientists from the Seoul National University College of Medicine refrain from (paleolithic) dairy bashing in their evaluation of "the clinical efficacy and safety of omega-3 fatty acids and of GLA for the treatment of mild to moderate facial acne." (Jung. 2014) If you google "natural acne treatment" it will usually not take long until you find a reference to fish oil and gamma linoleic acid (a...
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Dustasteride Doesn't Hamper Mass & Strength Gains on TRT, but Compromises the Fat Loss Effects of Testosterone and Does Not Reduce Any of the Side Effects

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Image 1: I guess after the publication of his latest study, Mr. Bhasin will have a bad standing with the pharma reps from GlaxoSmithKline & Co ;-) What happens if you take a couple of healthy guys and put them on a cycle... ah, pardon, I mean, "put them on hormone replacement therapy"? Assuming that you have paid attention in the seminars of the Intermittent Thoughts Series on Building Muscle (cf. " Preliminary Conclusion + Summary "), particularly the part " Quantifiying the Big T ", it should not be difficult for you to answer: The guys will gain a few slabs of lean muscle mass! But what would happen if you added in some finasteride , or it's uber-potent cousin dustasteride ? Will you gain more or less? Will you be protected from acne and prostate growth? The "Big T" as in "Testosterone" or as in "Taboo"? As an MD you are not supposed to ask these questions... you are not even supposed to put your male patien...
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