Can vitamin supplements cure acne?
During the middle of the 20th century, renown nutritionist and author Adelle Davis conducted studies on nutritional deficiencies that caused skin disease. Among these studies was how vitamin A and vitamin E deficiency affected the skin. The following excerpt was taken from ‘Let’s Eat Right To Keep Fit” written by Adelle Davis in l954: “…physicians sometimes recommend that adolescents take vitamin A because of acne, but no improvement occurs because vitamin E is inadequate..” (p. 160). An understanding of specific vitamins and nutrient combinations is so crucial to healing disease that without this knowledge, many ailments are left uncured. With this understanding, there is virtually no disease that cannot be recovered from. Nutritional scientists have discovered additional nutrients that can help heal acne. In addition to the combination of vitamin A and E, the mineral zinc may play a crucial role in skin health. In numerous studies conducted throughout the 1960’s, zinc has been show
