Indigestion Leads to Acne
The common causes of acne are: unhygienic body conditions, hormonal changes, over production of oil from the skin oil glands, over accumulation of dead skin cell, over consumption of processed foods, excessive eating, excessive consumption of oily and fried food, stress, environmental factors and lack of exercise.
But do you know that indigestion can worsen or be the primary cause of acne? To explain the relationship more clearly, let us shed more light on the working of our digestive system.
Our stomach accommodates all the food that we eat together with the various acids, enzymes and other things that aid digestion. The food that is in digestion process moves from the stomach and goes to the pancreas then travels down through small and large intestine and together to thereafter to the anus. By this process, all the glands assist in the process of digestion through their enzymes to complete the digestion process.
Indigestion happens when any of those enzymes is unable to perform or sometimes absent in the body. For example, adequate hydrochloric acid must be presence for proper food digestion to take place. If the body should lack hydrochloric acid, absorption of many important minerals will be difficult. Lack of important minerals in the body weakens the immune system. And as the immune system gets weakens, the capacity to combat bacteria effectively reduces which itself is a major cause of acne.
When the food that is not properly digested get to the pancreas, the enzymes in the pancreas produced an increase in enzymatic activity. And if pancreas lacks enzymes content, the food will stay in the stomach and as time goes on it will start to turn into toxins. These toxins are then release throughout the blood and invariably lead to blood impurity. Blood impurity is one the factors leading to acne on the body.
However, the only simple and natural way to prevent acne is to eat healthy food, balance diet and nutritious meal. The food that we eat should not be difficult to digest and should contain lots of fibers and roughage. Also, we distance ourselves from oily food as much as possible. We should try to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables regularly. Drinking a lot of water is also good. Water is a detoxification and a good therapy in the fight against acne. Water carries a lot of toxins produced during the process of digestion and help in emptying our bowels.