Vitamin A can help your battle against acne, and zinc also appears to have a very positive effect on problem skin.



Some skincare experts suggest that acne is a result of a deficiency in vitamin B5. This theory is based on the idea that your body needs this to help metabolize the harmful fats in your diet.

The supporters of this theory suggest that in order to metabolize fats properly, your body needs Coenzyme-A, which is also necessary for the synthesis of hormones. Coenzyme-A is created within the body from a combination of cysteine, adenosine triphosphate, and vitamin

B5 or pantothenic acid as it is otherwise known.

Of these three, the one that is most commonly lacking is vitamin B5,

and from this it follows that your body cannot make enough

Coenzyme-A to satisfy all of its requirements.

In this case, the metabolization of fats takes precedence over the

synthesis of hormones, and in this way, too many hormones remain

unsynthesized. So, there is a need (according to this theory) for

additional vitamin B5 to be taken in as a way of redressing the

balance.

The problem with this theory is that most proponents recommend

extremely high dosages of B5 in order for the plan to be effective, with between 10 and 20 grams a day (note, that is grams, not milligrams)

being the most widely recommended dose. There are many reports

that, if taken in the dosages suggested, B5 is actually more harmful

than beneficial.

For example, several (albeit non-scientific) studies have indicated that

excessively large doses of B5 can lead to chronic fatigue, constant

headaches and a general inability for the body to heal itself in the

normal way.

The proponents of the theory counter-claim that, since B5 is a water

soluble vitamin, any unused excess will be secreted by the body, so

there is no risk involved. While this is true to a certain extent, the fact

is that the doses recommended by the supporters of the B5 theory are

just too high for this to happen in reality.

Your body simply does not have the capability of processing such

massive amounts of any vitamin that quickly, and so the B5 will

remain in your body long enough to cause the kind of problems that

seem to be most commonly associated with it.

Most importantly, it is important to understand that everything that

happens inside your body is about maintaining a healthy balance, and

that the more balanced your system is, the more healthy you are.

For example, your body needs both calcium and phosphorus to stay

healthy, but it needs them in balance with one another. Get the

balance wrong, and it is every bit as bad for you as not having them at

all.

Too much phosphorus, for example, and your body will start leeching

calcium from your skeleton as a way of topping up your calcium store

to maintain the correct balance between the two. This will obviously

weaken your bones, making them far more susceptible to damage and

breakages.

It is a similar story with vitamin B5. If you try to take in excessively

high levels of any particular B vitamin, your body will react by

attempting to leech all the other B vitamins out of your body to

maintain the correct balance.

So, your body ‘sucks up’ vitamins B3 and B6 from wherever it can find

them, for example, and as these are key vitamins for controlling and

regulating the levels of energy in your body, hence you get the feeling

of being permanently tired. So, it appears that the vitamin B5 theory

is simply not correct and that, if anything, taking vitamin B5 in the

dosage that are most commonly recommended by the supporters of

the theory is likely to be more dangerous than beneficial.

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