Dr. Elizabeth Boham
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So she said, okay, I really want to figure out.
it becomes a vicious cycle. We see these vicious cycles all the time with medications, right? Because they're shifting, because there's antibiotics, as we've mentioned, are shifting the microbiome.
They're shifting the microbiome in your gut, they're shifting it on your skin, they're getting rid of that first line of defense, and then they're allowing, then it's more common to get the acne again when you stop them.
And so just because of her history of all of those antibiotics as a kid and being on the antibiotics, and because we got more information, she was having a lot of digestive issues. She was having some bloating, some diarrhea, constipation. Her digestion was off.
Right. No, he didn't ask that. So because of that, I said, you know what? I really need to focus on the microbiome here for this woman to help improve her acne. And so we did a stool test, which is kind of a neat, it's a neat way to get a sense of what's going on in the microbiome.
You know, it looks at a lot of different biomarkers, right? So it's looking at all of your levels of commensal bacteria, like all the good bacteria, and is there an imbalance in the good and bad bacteria? So it does look for acute infections, for real infections as well, but it also is really paying attention to something we call dysbiosis. Yeah.
which is an imbalance in the good and bad bacteria and trying to get a sense of is there an overgrowth of not good bacteria or not good yeast or it also looks at parasites. It looks at digestion and absorption and inflammatory markers.
Right, so when the stool test came back, we found that there was this overgrowth of unwanted bacteria and there was an overgrowth of unwanted yeast. And yeah, and so we can do tests like you said on, is there increased intestinal permeability or leaky gut? And she of course had that because of these imbalances and the inflammation going on in her digestive system.
Because we know that those imbalances cause inflammation. And we know inflammation causes all sorts of things, including acne, right? So we said, okay, we need to work to fix. We need to work to fix this imbalance. Let's work to rebalance the bacteria in her gut.
and so for her she wanted to use an herbal approach and i agreed with that so we put her on a combination of a couple different um herbs that can work to get rid of the overgrowth of bacteria and yeast and and that worked really well the one thing i always say about skin though is you you kind of have to be patient sometimes so if you're
if you are pulling away a food like dairy or, which we did with her, we took her off of dairy. We took away a lot of added sugar. If you're adding in something to treat the dysbiosis, and we also gave her a lot of probiotics too, you got to give it some time for the skin to improve. You might see some improvement in the
inflammatory acne right away but for the skin to really improve it takes like six weeks for the skin to turn over so you want to give it some we always give it some time to say okay how is this how's this improving yeah um and so and and we also we also added in some nutrients that are really important for skin turnover so we know that zinc and vitamin A are
are really critical nutrients to help the skin turn over so you don't get so much of that hyperkeratinosis, that elevated levels of the skin not turning over, which can cause more acne to develop.
Yeah.
Yeah. So we put her on some zinc and vitamin A. Now, the both of those, you know, I just want to caution listeners, if you're not working with the doctor, you know, both of those you can get too much of, and they can cause imbalances in other vitamins. And vitamin A is fat soluble. So you have to, if you're going to use a higher dose. You can't OD on it. Yeah. I use 10,000 I use per day with her.
A vitamin A. A vitamin A. But you don't want to be on that for a long, long time. No. We did it for three months, and then we started to spread it out. And I was monitoring her levels. And the same thing with zinc. You just have to be a little bit cautious of just taking a lot of this on your own, because it can throw off some of your vitamin levels, or vitamin A can be toxic at high doses.
It really helped, I mean, the whole comprehensive approach really helped her skin improve. And she was able to stop using both the oral antibiotics and the topical antibiotics. She was able to get off of them. And her skin, that dysbiosis started to rebalance and she wasn't getting all the acne all the time.
Right.
The Dr. Hyman Show · Mold, Lyme, Gut Health, and the Mystery of Histamine Intolerance · 21 Apr 2025
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This is where these really good foods in someone who has histamine intolerance is like putting gasoline on a fire. And they're like, well, I'm getting worse. It's like, well, no, you should be getting worse. These are good foods for you. No, you have histamine problem.
Histamine is found naturally in the body. The body makes histamine. We also consume histamine. And the interesting thing about histamine is it is also part, it's released by mast cells. as part of our first response to offending organisms like viruses.
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