A year ago I told students at my friend’s Mohamed Ibrahim ’s school that a student of Allen Neuringer’s had gone on a camping trip and found that her acne went away. At first she thought it was the sunshine; but then, by self-experimentation, she discovered that the crucial change was that she had stopped using soap to wash her face.
Now Mohamed writes:
I told my classes about your friend who went camping without her face products only to discover that the face products were contributing to her acne, and that from that point on she only washed her face with water. It turns out that two of my students wash their faces with water! And their skin looks great! I started “washing” my face with water about a month ago, and [now] my face is acne free and soft as a pair of brand new UGG boots. [He had had acne for years.] The only additional thing I do is wipe my face with a napkin throughout the day to remove any excess oil.
So one cause of acne is using soap to wash your face.
Acne really matters. And it’s common. It now turns out that it has a pathetically easy solution, in at least some cases. Dermatologists don’t know this. Apparently hardly anyone knows it. Somehow the entire healthcare establishment, to whom we entrust our health in many ways, missed this. Dennis Mangan’s discovery that niacin can cure restless-leg syndrome is another example of a pathetically easy solution missed by experts. Likewise, the Shangri-La Diet is very different than anything an obesity expert has ever proposed.
What else has been missed?
More Imagine a med student in a dermatology class. The student raises his hand and asks a question. “I read in a blog that acne goes away if you stop using soap. What do you think about that?” What would the instructor say — after telling the student not to believe everything he reads on the Web?
A year ago I told students at my friend’s Mohamed Ibrahim ’s school that a student of Allen Neuringer’s had gone on a camping trip and found that her acne went away. At first she thought it was the sunshine; but then, by self-experimentation, she discovered that the crucial change was that she had stopped using soap to wash her face.
Now Mohamed writes:
So one cause of acne is using soap to wash your face.
Acne really matters. And it’s common. It now turns out that it has a pathetically easy solution, in at least some cases. Dermatologists don’t know this. Apparently hardly anyone knows it. Somehow the entire healthcare establishment, to whom we entrust our health in many ways, missed this. Dennis Mangan’s discovery that niacin can cure restless-leg syndrome is another example of a pathetically easy solution missed by experts. Likewise, the Shangri-La Diet is very different than anything an obesity expert has ever proposed.
What else has been missed?
More Imagine a med student in a dermatology class. The student raises his hand and asks a question. “I read in a blog that acne goes away if you stop using soap. What do you think about that?” What would the instructor say — after telling the student not to believe everything he reads on the Web?