Dr. Samantha Ellis

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934 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 22 Apr

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The Liz Moody Podcast · The Root Causes Of Hair Loss, Acne & Aging—What's Actually Worth Your Money + What's Total BS · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

And that absolutely can be stimulatory towards acne.

Like, what are you using?

Are you using any new products that could be clogging your pores?

So sometimes that can be a little bit hard to discern.

But I usually say go back three months in your skincare and look at what you've been using.

What's new?

What's changed?

Has anything changed in your diet as well?

So although the link between diet and acne is not...

fully elucidated, there are certain things that can be triggering for some people, whether that's nonfat dairy, whether that's higher glycemic index foods.

Even sometimes when people incorporate things like extreme intermittent fasting, it can spike your cortisol and that on its own can cause acne.

So I look at your diet, I look at what you're using in your skincare, but for a lot of people, there is just a new hormonal surge that's going on or an increased hormonal sensitivity of the oil glands in your skin.

At that point, I would start thinking about seeing a dermatologist just to understand if there's things you can be doing to improve

We don't typically test the hormones because for the vast majority of people who get acne, if you test a hormone panel for them, it will be totally normal.

And that's because they don't have irregular hormones, but they've increased sensitivity to their hormones.

So the oil glands in their skin just respond more actively or bind more strongly.

I understand.

And the other thing is, this is not true across the board, but a lot of people, when they have quote unquote hormonal acne, which most acne is driven by hormones, to be honest, but they get a lot of like lower facial acne.

So it can be on like the jawline, the chin, even the neck area can be a more indicative of a stronger hormonal trigger.

And with people who have polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS, they have higher circulating levels of androgens.

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