Root causes of acne – Melbourne Functional Medicine
[Music] [Applause] my belief on the matter is that most of the root causes of acne are a hormonal imbalance but then you also have to ask yourself what's causing that hormonal imbalance is it something that's genetic is it something that is um a missing cofactor for an enzyme that methylates estrogen you know that's just one example um is it uh is it something that's environmental that's causing the hormonal imbalance like there are many what are called xenoestrogens in our environment now they're in plastics and pesticides they're everywhere and we are exposed to a lot of them so things that mimic hormones are in our environment so i think there's a lot of different reasons why someone might have a hormonal imbalance to start with even the oral contraceptive pill some people get acne from taking the oral contraceptive pill it might not be that and that wasn't the reason they took it to start with but they took it perhaps for hormonal contraception and then ended up with acne as a result so i think there's many reasons why we can end up with a hormonal imbalance and and some of those can be tested for and some of them can't be tested for
