How I Healed My Acne: Gut Health, Treating H. Pylori & Skincare

Pursuit of Wellness

Mari Llewellyn

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Ep. # 138 In this solo episode, I’ll explore the powerful connection between skincare and gut health! After a decade-long battle with acne and scarring, I’m finally enjoying my clearest skin in years — achieved without accutane, spironolactone, and birth control. I’ll share my journey of discovering the root causes of my breakouts, along with the daily skincare routine and dietary changes that made a difference. If you’ve struggled with acne, know that you’re not alone; I’m here to offer insights and tips to help you on your own healing journey. Leave Me a Message - click here! For Mari’s Instagram click here! For Pursuit of Wellness Podcast’s Instagram click here! For Mari’s Newsletter click here! For POW Brand Promo Codes click here! Sponsored By: Go to boncharge.com and use coupon code PURSUIT to save 15%. That’s boncharge.com and use coupon code PURSUIT to save 15%. Visit www.geometry.house and use code POW at checkout for 15% off your purchase. That’s www.geometry.house use code POW for 15% off your first order. For a limited time, you can get $30 off the first box - PLUS free Croissants in every box - when you go to Wildgrain.com/POW to start your subscription. You heard me - free Croissants in every box - and $30 off your first box when you go to Wildgrain.com/POW. That’s Wildgrain.com/POW, or you can use promo code POW at checkout. Show Links: Emily Morrow Episode Function Health - functionhealth.com/pow and use code POW100 to skip the waitlist. Clearstem Website - Use code POW for 20% off your first purchase Bioderma Make Up Remover Roccoco Botanicals Pure Cleansing Oil Roccoco Purifying Treatment Essence Face Reality Mandelic Acid DMK Beta Gel Vixen Aesthetics Hydrinity Vivid Brightening Serum Face Reality Antioxidant Peptide Serum Roccoco Botanical Cerimide Booster Face Reality Acne Med Clean Skin Club Towels Epicutis Lipid Recovery Facemask Topics Discussed 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:52 - The worst of Mari’s acne 00:07:55 - Mari’s lab test results 00:10:53 - Austin move and new breakouts 00:12:10 - H. Pilori 00:14:46 - Gut rebuilding phase 00:16:02 - Lab testing recommendations 00:18:12 - Dietary changes 00:20:04 - Clean skincare for acne 00:25:50 - General tips

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0:00.0	This is the Pursuit of Wellness Podcast and I'm your host Mari Llewellen.
0:08.8	Hi guys, welcome to a solo episode all about skin care and gut health.
0:17.0	For me, those two things are very closely connected and if you've been following me for a while you know I have struggled with acne
0:26.7	on and off for 10 years mostly on like I have had breakouts, acne scarring for about 10 years and right now is the clearest my skin has been in a very, very long time.
0:42.0	It's also been clear now for a few months and I'm
0:46.3	feeling just like really confident in my plan. Now if you've been following me for a
0:52.0	while and listening to the show you'll remember I did go through a period of time where my skin had cleared up back in LA for like a month or two and then it all came back and now I know the reason why and I did this without doing
1:05.5	acutane without spironylactone without birth control so these are all my tips and
1:11.6	tricks for how I healed my gut health, got to the root cause of my
1:15.8	acne, the skin care I use every single day, basically everything I do the way I
1:21.3	eat to prevent acne as someone who is a very acne prone person.
1:27.1	So keep listening if you're interested.
1:29.8	I'm going to really dive into details here so if you are someone who struggles with the skin just
1:35.0	know I see you I hear you I get it it was one of the hardest things I've ever been through in my
1:41.4	life to have acne all over my face and I will try to I mean somehow
1:48.5	maybe we'll do a newsletter or something show you guys really the worst of my acne. Mine always seemed to be at the
1:57.3	lower half of my face. So from like cheekbone down and it was very concentrated in the
2:04.3	lower cheek jaw chin area around my mouth.
2:08.4	Very indicative of like high testosterone hormonal problems and I do have
2:17.4	P.C. S. Like symptoms but I could always feel that there was something else
2:22.0	going on because it felt like okay I live a very healthy lifestyle I drink a ton of water I eat clean I take my supplements I wash my face three times a day like why me I always had this feeling of why me and kind of feeling like something was wrong but not knowing what and I'll go into how I figured that all out, but it was very much, like it ruined my confidence.
2:47.2	I couldn't look people in the eye.
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