Top 5 Best Vitamins to Prevent Acne
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Top 5 Vitamins and Minerals For Acne

Do you know that more than 32 nutrients in our body are considered essential for our health? Some of the 32 nutrients are known to us (calcium, iron, vitamin B), and some nutrients are unknown to many people. Every mineral and vitamin can improve our skin, but do you know what the top 5 vitamins and minerals for acne are? Acne can tell someone a great deal about us as acne reflects the health of our entire body.

What if I say that there are only five primary acne nutrients that stand out from all the nutrients our body needs to prevent acne. Our list below briefly explains what each of the five vitamins or minerals does and how it benefits us.

Top 5 Vitamins and Minerals For Acne

Vitamin E

What is the benefits of taking vitamin E?
What is the benefits of taking vitamin E?         Photo source: Muscleandfitness

Vitamin E is also known as tocopherol or alpha-tocopherol and helps to defend our skin cells and stop clogged pores. Vitamin E is the master of acne vitamins when drinking at least the daily allowance of 22IU because it will prevent acne or prevent acne from becoming humongous.

Check with your doctor if it is okay to take a little more vitamin E than recommend. Intaking a little more vitamin E will significantly decrease if not eliminate your pimples, especially on oily face/skin.

Individuals prone to acne need vitamin E because scientists conducted studies that reveal that people with acne have less vitamin E in their bloodstream than those without acne.

There are two ways to intake enough vitamin E every day: eating foods rich in vitamin E and taking vitamin E supplements.

Eat food rich in vitamin E:

foods rich in vitamin e
Does vitamin E clear acne?    Photo source: myfooddata.com

Green vegetables – spinach, turnip, and collards.
Nuts – almonds, pine nuts, and peanuts.
Sweet Potato 1 Tbsp (15% DV)
1 whole avocado (10% DV)
Wheat germ 1 ounce (17% DV)
Seeds – pumpkin seed, squash seed, sunflower seed, and sesame seeds.
Butternut squash, pumpkin, sweet potato.
Plant oils – olive oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, and palm oil.
Shellfish – shrimp, oysters, crayfish.
Fruits – kiwi, blackberries, apricots, and guavas.
Trout, herring, mackerel.
Chocolate

Drink vitamin E supplement that is more (ask your doctor) than 22IU. Dr. Evan Shute is a scientist who mentions that males and females can benefit hugely from taking up to 600IU in natural forms per day.


Zinc

Health benefits of zinc
What is zinc important for?       Photo source: healthy eating.SFGate

Zinc can eliminate acne by calming down your existing pimples and stopping new pimples from forming. Scientific studies show that zinc helps to get rid of acne. The top health benefits of zinc are helping our immune, and digestive systems function properly, helping control our diabetes, reducing stress levels, improving our metabolism, heals acne, and wounds faster/quicker. Zinc also helps eczema, weight loss, blindness in the night, eye care, appetite loss, and several other conditions.

Zinc and vitamin E are very similar because they both affect our skin if we do not have enough of it in our body, and most of the world is deficient in zinc and vitamin E.

Zinc is also known to work miracles on our immune system. Zinc can jumpstart an immune system that is not functioning well and prevent an overactive immune system from releasing too many inflammatory chemicals.

What causes acne? Acne is caused by excessive inflammatory chemicals, which makes our skin pores swell when our immune system attacks our p.acne bacteria lodged in our pores. 

Everyone can get his/her zinc intake through food that is rich in zinc and through supplements.


Vitamin D

Vitamin D Prevents Infections and Reduces Cancer Risk
Vitamin D Prevents Infections and Reduces Cancer Risk       Photo Source: Youtube

Vitamin D is a hormone that our body makes when exposed to ultraviolet rays from the sun. Vitamin D is vital for our body to function properly and fight insulin resistance, acne, control inflammation, etc.

According to over 800 research, it is believed that increasing blood vitamin D to 50-70ng/ml can help us fight cancer. About 40% of the people in the United States are vitamin D deficient, mainly because of the types of jobs we do in dark offices and spending too much time watching television.


 Vitamin C

Top 5 Vitamins and Minerals For Acne
Vitamin C keeps our eyes and bodies healthy             Photo source: Allaboutvision

Vitamin C helps strengthen our skin structure and lower our stress hormone cortisol in our bloodstream. Our body also needs vitamin C to make collagen which is an essential component of your skin and to help wounds heal faster. If our body gets more than the recommended daily amount of vitamin C, then our acne scars will heal and disappear quickly, and our skin will look clearer.

The acne community often dismisses vitamin C, but it is an absolute must to eliminate acne. The human body can take up to 2000mg of vitamin C, but vitamin C’s daily allowance is 60mg.


Vitamin A

Vitamin A fights acne and oily skin
Vitamin A fights acne and oily skin             Photo source: Drweil.

Vitamin A helps to reduce your skin’s oil output and clear acne massively. 

Vitamin A can help you tremendously fight against acne if you take the right dose, and please keep in mind that this is one vitamin that you should entirely pay attention to and not overdose.

It has a high ability to reduce your sebaceous glands’ size and how much sebum they produce, which means less oily skin for you, resulting in fewer blocked pores.

Almost everyone who takes recommended daily amount of vitamin A see’s improvement in their acne condition. The recommended daily allowance of vitamin A is 800ug.


Practically all nutrients will help acne, but not all of them will perform the same way, which leaves me to say that the above five minerals/vitamins are the best so far for acne.

You do not have to take pills for all of the above; eat enough food-based items with the vitamin or mineral you need.

Please read all ingredients on vitamin and mineral bottles before purchasing to make sure ingredients are natural and not mixed with a lof things you do not need.

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