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Acne infections damage collagen and elastin fibers, sever the microvascular network and damage and kill cells. When healing occurs, and an acne injury is not properly treated, a scar is left in the skin. The normal functional tissue (skin) is replaced by connective tissue (scar).

Acne is a complex condition that depends essentially on:

A) elevated sebum secretion in conjunction with

B) toxins inside your skin due to the intake of protein of low quality.

These elements get deposited by your lymph system and placed underneath the skin. There they attract moisture from the external layer of the skin making it feel dry. As a matter of fact excess build up will result in an exaggerated pressure on the sebaceous glands "pinching them off" and thus impeding the sebum flow, clogging pores and eventually breaking sebum out onto the surface or inside the skin follicles where there is a rich environment for the proliferation of acne bacteria, inflammation and the skin lesions that characterize acne.

Anything that causes excess water retention inside your skin can pinch off the sebaceous glands inside your skin and make you break out sebum where acne bacteria will proliferate, in minutes, especially if you are going through a period of elevated sebum production. Excess salt and spices are the most usual triggers, so if you consume too many potato chips you're exposing yourself to the high possibility of acne breakouts.

Heat damages and/or changes basical nutrients. New damaging substances are formed in all animal or vegetable aliments that are heated. Dietary protein is partially altered in the cooking process. Protein molecules react with dietary carbohydrates, forming new molecules. This process is known as "the Maillard reaction", and the same occurs to peptides because of simple oxidation.

Stomach enzymes separate protein amino acids, only if the targeted portion of the protein matches what the enzyme is created for. If the linked amino-acids have changed due to heat there is no separation. The un-separated amino-acid chains are transported by the lymph network, at a much lower rate than by blood. And such cargo of Maillard reaction and altered peptide by-products is discharged into the skin so that the lymph can reach the digestive tract and the liver to pick up new cargo of valuable nutrients that it transports for use by the body's organs.

Cooked proteins change into broken peptides not absorbed into your blood system but disposed off by your lymphatic network. And end up in the internal layer of your skin catching moisture and pressing your sebaceous glands to the point of blocking them, and thus pimples are formed.