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Can Diets & Supplements Make Your Skin Look Sexier & Younger? Review Says What Works & What Doesn't Work

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People pay thousand of dollars for topicals to make their skin look healthier and younger. Is it possible that the same or even more can be achieved by diet and significantly cheaper supplements? Well, as a SuppVersity  reader you can hardly be surprised to hear that the way you eat and supplement affects the way you look. What may surprise you is the fact that there are actually only few studies that investigated these effects systematically. Luckily, the latest review of the few studies that exists comes right off the press and has just been published in the scientific journal Nutrition Research  (Pezdric. 2015). In their review of all currently available studies that included participants aged at least 18 years, that observed or altered dietary intake from actual food or dietary supplement use, and assessed appearance related outcomes were, researchers from the  University of Newcastle and the  University of St Andrews  compiled data from a total o...

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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