Quit Dairy and Lose the ZITS

From: Bawl (bunghole-jonnie_at_lycos.com)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: 23 Mar 2005 13:32:39 -0800

From: "Robert Cohen" <notmilk@e...>
Date: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:28 pm
Subject: The Zit Letter

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The Zit Letter

Mark Francis flyinhornets@y... wrote:

"I wanted to write to thank you for your information on
milk and zits. Milk has been my favorite drink since I
was a little kid. When I hit twenty, for some reason my
face started breaking out. I'm now 33 and JUST found your
page three days ago. I've been searching for the cause of
acne for 13 years! It's been a LONG, PAINFUL AND EMBARASSING
journey. I'm sure you've heard all the stories, but the
things I've done or NOT done because of my acne...well,
it's been a rough 13 years.

"While I just discovered your website, along with:

http://milksucks.com

"I can say in the past three days, my skin is clearing up like
a puddle of water in an Arizona desert. I am 80% sure that this
is the problem. I will be 100% sure in about three weeks when for
the first time, my face is 95-100% clear. I say this because
of the results I am seeing in only three days. I have 15-20
spots that are slowly but surely clearing."

Like many thousands of persons with acne, Mark has discovered
the Notmilk therapy. It's not the gels and creams that you
put on your face that clears up acne. It's what you don't put
into your mouth that makes the difference.

Acne occurs when steroids (androgens) stimulate the sebaceous
glands within the skin's hair follicles. These glands then
secrete an oily substance called sebum. When sebum, bacteria
and dead skin cells build up on your skin, the pores become
blocked, creating a zit.

"...80 percent of cows that are giving milk are pregnant and
are throwing off hormones continuously. Progesterone breaks
down into androgens, which have been implicated as a factor
in the development of acne..."

Frank Oski, M.D. (Director, Department of Pediatrics,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
___________________________

"Acne usually begins at puberty, when an increase in androgens
causes an increase in the size and activity of pilosebaceous
glands....if a food is suspected, it should be omitted for
several weeks and then eaten in substantial quantities to
determine if acne worsens."

MERCK Manual, Merck & Company, 2000
___________________________

"Acne is an end-organ hyper-response to androgens...These
data show that sebaceous glands are stimulated by androgens
to varying degrees and support the theory of an end-organ
response in acne."

British Journal of Dermatology, 1998 Jul, 139:1
___________________________

"Hormones found in cow's milk include: Estradiol, Estriol,
Progesterone, Testosterone, 17-Ketosteroids, Corticosterone,
Vitamin D, insulin-like growth factor, growth hormone,
prolactin, oxytocin..."

Journal of Endocrine Reviews, 14(6) 1992
___________________________

"We studied the effects of growth hormone (GH) and
insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), alone and with androgen,
on sebaceous epithelial cell growth...IGF-I was the most
potent stimulus of DNA synthesis. These data are consistent
with the concept that increases in GH and IGF production
contribute in complementary ways to the increase in sebum
production during puberty."

Endocrinology, 1999 Sep, 140:9, 4089-94
___________________________

"...serum IGF-I levels increased significantly in the milk
drinking group, an increase of about 10% above baseline-but
was unchanged in the control group."

Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 99,
no. 10. October 1999

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

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