[Acne] Sebum reduction with diet - an experiment

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So approximately 2 weeks ago I decided I'll solve my acne with diet. I've had very good results with diet changes in the past (regarding acne), namely with the paleo diet and the vegan diet. I've been on and off these diets, and I would cheat pretty often, I have to admit.So anyways, 2 weeks ago I made a list of the only foods that I'm going to eat. Basically, a paleo-ish diet. Paleo-ish because paleotards will go apeshit over how rice isn't paleo, but whatever. So the list:mineral waterriceapplepearchickenbaconlettucecoconut oilteafrench friespop corn (lol)That's it. Now what happened was is that after only a few days my sebum production basically stalled. Normally my skin gets oily in 20 minutes after showering and when I wake up in the morning I'm literally drenched in my own sebum, but on this "diet" my skin would remain dry throughout the day. Even my acne dried off. Hell, I even asked a girl out, which I've never done before.Now, a week later I thought I'd introduce a few things back in my diet:beanscucumberseggs (I had them lying around and they were expensive bio eggs so I wouldn't want to throw them out lol)carrotspeppersoatmealwheattomatopumpkin seed oil(I think I didn't miss anything.) The results? 2 days later my skin is oily as ever, acne is back, I feel like shit. :(Could it be the protein from the eggs? The beans? Gluten from wheat? Though it couldn't be the gluten as I've been "full" paleo before and I was strictly gluten free for months and that didn't help either. Or is it just protein that breaks me out in general? Or could it be the low calorie intake?I looked into why milk breaks out most people, and found the IGF-1 connection. Basically, more dietary protein leads to more IGF-1 serum levels, which aggravates sebum production, which leads to acne. Of all the proteins though, casein was found to cause elevated IGF-1 levels (milk consists of roughly 80% casein). I have not found any information on what legumin (which are found in beans) does to IGF-1 levels, in fact I haven't really gotten much info on legumin in general, other than the Wikipedia article, which only states that legumin "is a protein substance analogous to the casein of milk." Could it mean that legumin (from legumes) also raises IGF-1 levels? And what about the eggs? They're rich in protein, so that could raise IGF-1. But then again, so could the chicken breast I ate every day, right?So anyways, thanks for reading this. I'm going back to my original list for the next week, and I'll report back.(I originally posted this in /r/acne, but apparently this post is "problematic" and the moderators have removed it.)
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