​​ I am a spa professional with over 20 years of experience. My interest in acne began with a problem of my own. Around age 20 I started getting acne. It got progressively worse until age 30 and I was getting to my wits' end because nothing external worked for more than 3 months before the acne came roaring back.

 

Frustrated with being told that my acne was hormonal, and consequently being given no real course of action for addressing the hormones themselves. I began asking a different question: Why are my hormones causing this when other women's hormones do not? Around this time I also took over ownership and management of a health spa in San Jose, California where I began seeing a lot of clients with inflammatory disorders. One day I realized that my acne behaved in a very similar fasion. This caused a paradigm shift in my thinking. Then I asked the question: What if the immune response is working just fine but the braking system is faulty? This began what came to be 2 years of my life I can only describe as obsessed. Fortunately I have always loved reading obscure medical literature and back then Google was great for stuff like that.  

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 Acne is a subject I remain particularly passionate about to this day. Inflammatory disorders are unique to the developed world and once you have one you will likely develop more. But it doesn't need to be this way. 

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