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Hello Jeanette,

I sympathize with you and your skin. I always had clear skin until my mid 20s. Now I have problems with it in phases. I nototive the time around my period or time of great stress can be particualrly bad. Adjusting my diet has helped control the situation much.

I have read that when you are starting a period of detxofication, such as a cleanising diet, or regualr pratice of a form of yoga where you sweat a lot, that the skin breaks out much in the beginning, as a consequence of the body releasing tons of toxins through the skin. That has been my experience as well, that it was a phase, but eventually was passed, but when I fall off the macrobitotic train (meaning eat much less balanced meals and don't exercise as regularly for a consecutive period of time), I notice it reoccurs briefly when I re-enter the macrobitotic phase.

I have been advised that drinking aloe juice helps, because ti strenghtens the liver, which processes the toxins that come to the skin, when the liver is overtaxed. I mix it with a bit of apple juice so I can tolerate the bitterness. I don't know how macrobiotic aloe juice is, but the plants can grow here and it works for me, so I don't question it so much. again, I have only recently started pursing a macorbiotic life, so I don't have the weight of much experience to speak form the dogma, I only know what helps me.