08 Dec 2005
Acne, milk and the iodine connection

Read this carefully:

"Farmers give their cows iodine-fortified feed to prevent infection," he [Harvey Arbesman, M.D.] noted, "and they use sanitizing iodine solutions on their cows' udders and milking equipment. Consequently, there is lot of iodine in dairy products. For that reason, I've advised my acne patients for years to decrease their dairy intake."

The iodine is added by the farmer - cow's milk is not a natural source of iodine. Just one more benefit of factory farming, and a perfect illustration of how monkeying around with living systems can have unintended consequences decades down the road.

Dermatologists seem to agree that something in milk and dairy products may be linked to teen-age acne. But is it hormones and "bioactive molecules," as a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology suggested, or is there something else? University at Buffalo dermatologist Harvey Arbesman, M.D., says there could be something else: Iodine.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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