Why Antibiotics Don’t Fix Inflammatory Acne Long‑Term

Most people are told that “stronger” prescriptions will finally clear their skin, but antibiotics only touch one slice of inflammatory acne. 

In this episode, I break down why antibiotics are not enough for acne and why a root cause approach is the answer.

Learn about my Agniome™ method: https://www.skinorae.com/agniome-method

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A lot of people think antibiotics are the only solution to acne. No, they are not. And in today's episode, I'll explain why. Hi, I'm Salmeen. I'm a licensed acetation and a certified good health specialist, and this is my podcast, Skin Barrier and Beyond. In today's episode, I'll talk about why antibiotics are not enough when you have inflammatory acne. See, antibiotics can absolutely help some people in short term. I'm not saying that they are useless and you shouldn't be taking them. In some cases, antibiotics can actually help you. They can lower certain bacteria and calm part of the inflammation so the skin looks quieter for a while. Yes, that part is completely true. What happens is that when you are taking antibiotics for your acne and you go through that phase, you think, okay, finally, this is working. But then a few weeks or months after you stop, that deep, hot, painful breakouts start to creep back in. It feels like your skin is addicted to the medication or that you somehow messed it up, which is worse. Now let me tell you what's really happening. What's really happening is that antibiotics are aimed at one slice of the problem bacteria and some inflammation. But the problem is acne is rarely just that. It's also about how your oil glands behave, how your pores shed, how strong or fragile your barrier is, what's happening in your gut and hormones, and how stressed your nervous system is. When we only hit one layer, which is the inflammation with antibiotics, the others quietly keep the fire going. So it's like you are just solving 10% of the problem, but the 90% are still there. So that was the science, we know it's true, but from Ayurveda, that also agrees with it. From Ayurveda, we'd say your acne or your digestive fire when it's disturbed, and there is a buildup of toxin which we call AMA in Ayurveda, that internal gunk your body tries to push out through your skin. It means that when the toxin builds up in Ayurveda, the ama builds up, that shows up on your skin as breakouts. And Ayurveda says that when you have red, hot, painful acne, it looks like an aggravated pita in Ayurvedic language. Okay. It means that you have too much internal heat and intensity, which are trying to find your way out, and oftentimes it's your skin. So this happens all the time when you have inflammatory acne. Ayurveda says you have a lot of heat inside. Science says that there are some toxin buildup, there are some inflammation going inside. So both of these studies agree on that part. And it was so interesting because a lot of time people think that Ayurveda is an ancient wisdom, it doesn't align with science, is just you know, take turmeric, take ginger, and that's all. But Ayurveda is more than that. So when me as an Ayurvedic nutritionist and as a gut health specialist, I saw that these two worlds agree on one thing, which is the acne somehow. I mean, there are a lot of other things where they also intersect, but in my area, when I saw that they are agreeing on one topic, which is acne, I invented a method which combines both of these worlds. Now I didn't mean to talk about it, but when it comes to inflammatory acne, I'm so passionate about this topic because this is my expertise and Ayurveda and gut science, also my expertise. So what I did, I combined all of this and made my own method. So this is something I'm very excited to share that I recently trademarked my method, which is agniome. Now, if you listen to the name agnium, it comes from two words which is agni and ohm. So agni is from you know the digestive fire, which is in Ayurveda, and iome comes from the microbiome. So it's it's very interesting when you look at the name and the method itself is very interesting. Unfortunately, I cannot share more of it in here because that's gonna take like an hour-long podcast, and I don't want to bore you out. But what I can tell you that it was born from watching this inflammatory acne pattern over and over. The pattern of temporary calm on antibiotics and the rebound after. I saw a lot of clients, I saw a lot of closed ones suffering with this, and I was like, no, I have to do something about it. And the method I built has the foundation of fixing acne going into the road. So my method doesn't promise that you will not have acne in the next few years or you will get rid of acne in one week because its skin and its body we are talking about, and there are no miracles. So my method focuses more on healing the internal inflammation so that the external redness or the external painful inflammatory acne calms down. Agnium is my way of reading your skin as a map. One part of that map is the gut and the inflammation story, digestion bowels, food reactions, blood sugar, sleep stress, and the other part is the Ayurvedic pattern where there is like heat, stagnation, dryness, or instability. When we put those pieces together, antibiotics go from the only solution to just one possible tool in a much bigger picture, and often not the main one. So if you're someone who has been living in that loop of flair, prescription, calm, repeat, it doesn't mean you are out of options. There are a lot of practitioners like me who are working to find the root cause of inflammatory acne, and I would suggest you to get one of them and you know talk about your problems and get possible solutions because acne is not a surface problem, it's a system imbalance. Okay, acne happens when there is something going on inside your body, something is imbalanced, and you have to find out what is that. Because with antibiotics, you can calm down the inflammation for a while, but if you do not treat the root cause, it will keep coming back again and again, and at one point you will be resistant to antibiotics, and then the antibiotics, which is the only solution you think for now, will stop working as well. If you're interested about my method Agnium, you can find a link in the show notes I will leave it, it's about my method, how it works, how I see my clients. You are free to check it out because it's very interesting. And if you are into holistic approaches or if you're someone who believes in Ayurveda and science as well, like me, you will be fascinated by it. I'll see you in my next episode. Until then, ciao.