The hidden killer on face—Acne

As a matter of fact, everyone has the experience of suffering from acne. When you are struggling with acne, the experience must be distressed. During that time, you would feel unhappy and low self-esteem in some special occasion like picture day, prom night, spelling bees, sporting events, dates, and special award ceremonies, etc. what’s worse, if you attempt to pop out the acnes then there can be permanent scars left on your face that are unsightly.

Now, let me tell you the real story of acne.

Firstly, what exactly is acne? I invoke the definition of dictionary: "an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring."

So, from the description of above definition, we know real acne outbreaks are actually a disease of the skin, which caused by the sebaceous glands. Furthered research reveals that the key substance causing the acne breakout is sebum, which is produced by sebaceous glands. It goes into birth and travels up hair follicles, clogs the pores and begins the acne development cycle.

Then, what result in the sebum being produced largely and finally due to the acne breakout? There are involved with two aspects: one is male hormones. The other one is stress and emotion. At puberty, our body begins to produce an abundance of male hormones and this happens in both boys and girls. This overproduction of male hormones can happen at other times in life besides puberty. Meanwhile, these male hormones cause the bodies sebaceous glands to shift into overdrive and begin producing sebum, which would greatly result in acne breakout. Also, when you become extremely stressed or overly emotional, your adrenal glands would produce a substance known as Cortisol, which is released directly into the bloodstream. Then the chemical chain reaction continues as the sebaceous glands release sebum, the sebum travels up the same hair follicles, clogs the pores and acne develops. So, reducing stress will just naturally reduce sebum production by the sebaceous glands and reducing sebum production will help to alleviate an acne breakout. (Surely, there are many methods of reducing or releasing stress, such as chatting with others, playing games, doing sport, watching movies, etc.)

If you want to keep a beautiful and healthy face without any acnes’ annoying, taking measures to keep an optimistic heart then you would make your body’s chemical reaction effective and fluent which result in final heath of your face.