trying not to get emotional because like it was such a journey probably [Music] that's when i could tell a difference and i was like i think this is working i just can't believe like i was right [Music] hey guys welcome back to my channel so today i'm going to be filming a video that i honestly can't believe i am filming so i am going to be telling you guys how i cleared my acne naturally so i'm going to go through like a brief recap of kind of my acne journey what happened how it started that kind of thing and the different things that i tried that didn't work and then what actually ended up working so i am really excited to share this video with you again it's something that i wasn't sure if i'd ever get to film and if i'd ever get to this point where i could actually share stuff and say that it worked because if you've ever struggled with acne you would know kind of the emotional and mental toll it takes on you and you just hope that one day like you just want to have clear skin so i definitely understand that and understand like the emotion behind it so i'm excited to share with you what worked and hopefully maybe it helps someone out there so yeah i'm gonna go ahead and just kind of start with kind of the background of my acne journey i started having acne for the first time in november of 2019 and i actually remember it very well because that is when ryan and i got engaged and i remember kind of having some acne develop around that time around our engagement and i remember kind of like heading into like the christmas season i had acne and i had never really had acne before honestly i had a little bit in high school but it was never like full breakouts it was never like my whole cheek and forehead and like my whole face so having acne kind of start popping up on my cheeks some on my forehead just like a little bit everywhere was something that i was not used to but i remember specifically thinking that it was like just stress or like stress acne because i had just gotten engaged we were gonna plan a wedding i was graduating from college and i was gonna be starting a new job and i was trying to finish out college with finals and there's just a lot going on around that like november december january season of life so that was late 2019 november december 2019 and then like january 2020 when i first started noticing it so fast forward to i don't know maybe like april may of 2020 i was getting ready for like our wedding we got married august 1st 2020 so i was really trying to figure out like how can i clear my acne are weddings coming up that kind of thing so i remember watching videos on youtube just like this one because there was part of me that just felt like this was not going to be cleared through a dermatologist or by antibiotics or like heavy acne medicines and medications and and i just didn't want to go that route like i wanted to try it first to see if i could clear my acne through like diet change or something else first so i started watching videos just like this one that was like how i cleared my skin and blah blah blah and i remember watching them and so many of them said it was like oh i went dairy free i went dairy free gluten free you know i cut out sugar for a month and then a lot of them did celery juicing and they were like my skin's perfectly clear it's so great and so i was like that's gotta be it like okay i'll do it so i remember i bought a juicer i started doing celery juicing i tried cutting out the sugar when i was celery juicing i don't think i like committed fully to like dairy-free gluten-free because i've done that in the past like years ago in college and i never remembered it making a difference on my skin but i also didn't have acne at the time so the biggest thing was the juicing that i tried and celery juicing did help my skin if i stayed on top of it like if i actually did it but if i ever stopped and eventually i did you know it just comes right back so that was kind of like spring of 2020 and then summer 2020 in july i got on birth control because ryan and i were getting married in august so i got on birth control and i was kind of hoping that it would clear my acne enough for the wedding like i was like hoping that that would help because like celery juicing and the other things that i had tried did not help so i remember that the birth control did clear up my skin like just enough for the wedding in august but then pretty shortly after the wedding it came right back like birth control didn't like maintain it or like clear my skin completely and my acne actually got the worst after our wedding so like september october november so from like august of 2020 to like june of this year like june 2021 it was bad i'll share some pictures um here i guess i'll go ahead and like insert some other pictures but it was really rough and it is very disheartening i don't want to get emotional because it was a very difficult time and on top of that if you've watched any of my other videos i was trying to go dairy-free gluten-free egg-free sugar-free like i was doing everything i knew to do at the time um just to try stuff but i remember just wanting to not get on any heavy medication i didn't want to try accutane i didn't want to try any of that stuff i just felt like it wasn't gonna work i don't know why i just had that gut feeling that it wasn't gonna work and then also like just to give you a reference of like how badly it hits your self-esteem and your mood and your mental state i had a few people who were close to me see me without makeup when my skin was at its worst and two different times on two different occasions two different people they saw me without makeup on and they literally did this they were like bethany have you seen a dermatologist like that is exactly what happened exactly what two different people did on different occasions and that hurts you know because it's like you try to think like you know maybe it's just me kind of obsessing about my skin and i'm the one who's staring at it all the time and you think like no one else is looking at me as much as like i'm kind of looking at it and like obsessing over it and then that happens where like other people are like bethany oh my gosh like your skin you know like that's exactly what happened that's like exactly what they said kind of the same mannerisms of like bethany like they were shocked because it's true that i never really had acne and all of a sudden i just had full-blown acne so that's kind of the state that my skin was in so i started seeing a naturopath in february of 2021 it was kind of the tail end of february so pretty much march of 2021 and that is kind of where my healing journey starts with seeing a naturopath so i went to longevity help center in roswell georgia and i saw one of the naturopaths there and i did a lot of different tests at their facility and just in general i mean a naturopath is normally someone who takes more of a holistic approach to health um so like vitamins supplements diet that type of thing so they are already in the mindset that i was already in of like i want to try and heal naturally i don't want to mask a symptom i want to find out what's causing it and then heal the cause you know find the root cause of what's happening to you and then heal that not just like mask the symptom and put a cream on it and try to like temporarily fixes it like i wanted to know what was happening and at the same time earlier this year i really started struggling with like food sensitivities i've never had like a dairy sensitivity or like gluten or like i've never really had food allergies i guess and i started reacting to a bunch of stuff and i was confused as to like what that was and so i kind of broke down and was like i need to see somebody because like trying to like piece together my own plan like was not working so i started seeing a naturopath in march of 2021 of this year and we ran three different tests and one of the biggest findings from my test was that i had a lot of heavy metals in my system so i had all these heavy metals in my system that were almost like built up and then one of the other tests found that my kidneys were not really functioning they weren't really detoxing the way they're supposed to and then another test kind of saw that i had a lot of like lymphatic blockage almost like up here and so like the my lymphatic system wasn't really like draining properly my kidneys weren't detoxing properly and then i had a bunch of heavy metals just like sitting in my system pretty much and they weren't getting detoxed so in my very first appointment that was the biggest thing that my naturopath pointed out was like you've got a bunch of heavy metals and your body's not detoxing and shoes like a lot of times with toxins they've got to come out somehow like your body needs them to get out they're not good for you you know your body's trying to get rid of them and so if it can't detox naturally it's going to come out through your pores so that was one of the first things that she said was like these toxins are probably trying to come out through your pores it could be the heavy metals and your body's trying so hard to get rid of them but your kidneys aren't doing it your lymphatic system isn't draining and where she was finding all the blockages were right up here in my lymphatic system close to my face the closest exit that those toxins had was my face so we found a lot of other things you know food sensitivities another big side of this was i had leaky gut so my gut was really struggling which can cause the food sensitivities and you know more reactions like you can have acne from food sensitivities but she was pretty dead set on thinking that it was those heavy metals trying to detox through my skin that was causing all that acne so i left the office i left with kind of a routine of like all these different supplements and like this big regime of like gluten-free dairy-free egg free sugar-free nut-free and then i was you know i needed to get off coffee any type of caffeine um my adrenal glands were very stressed so i had like adrenal stress um i had leaky gut i had heavy metals like raging in my system i was really deficient in a lot of vitamins so that one doctor's appointment showed me a lot so i left i had all these supplements i had all these things and one of them was a heavy metal detox supplement but the thing with that was that my body was struggling on so many other levels that i had to wait a while before my body could even handle a heavy metal detox so i had to get my kidneys functioning first because if i were to try and detox the heavy metals but my kidneys which are supposed to detox heavy metals if the kidneys aren't working then those heavy metals still don't have like a great outlet if your kidneys aren't moving then where are those heavy metals going to go if you try to detox them without your detox pathways working so i didn't actually start taking my heavy metal detox supplement until about the end of may so i kind of started my supplements first thing of march and then i couldn't get to actually take my heavy metal supplements until about the end of may because we had to work on my gut we had to work on getting my kidneys moving like my lymphatic system working before we could touch the heavy metals kind of so once i started taking the heavy metal detox supplement that she gave me and i'm going to show you exactly what supplements i took too i remember i started out with one capsule a day for about a week and you're supposed to work up to six capsules a day so i started out with one capsule day for about a week and then i started taking two capsules a day for a week and then three capsules a day and i kind of built up like that i just kind of finished up taking two capsules a day so i was on like about two weeks of taking this heavy metal detox supplement and i remember kind of being like is my skin getting better like is it getting clearer but i didn't want to like jinx it or like get my hopes up either so i kept taking it i eventually worked up like the six capsules a day by july like sometime in july i was at the six capsules a day and so i stayed on that like all through august of this year and i feel like august of 2021 was the first time that i was like i think my skin is actually like getting pretty dang clear but again it's like it was like too good to be true you know like it was just like is this working like did this work was that the problem and it's kind of it's like you don't even want to believe it because like the journey to get there is already so hard and emotional it's like you don't want to get your hopes up so i stayed with it i kept taking it and i was also still taking gut supplements a good multivitamin some like immune support supplements as well i wasn't just taking the heavy metal supplement but that one like once i got on that one that's when i could tell a difference and i was like i think this is working which is just like so crazy so flash forward to november 2021 in my skin is the best it has ever looked in a long time so i definitely do have like scarring i do have acne scars i do have some discoloration from like the couple years of having it because it's been about two years it started november 2019 and now it's november 2021 so it's been a few years journey trying to figure this out so obviously i do have some redness and some scarring and you know i would love to maybe like try and heal that eventually so that's kind of the story that's kind of where i'm at now so i wanted to just also say that like throughout this whole thing i didn't like i said i didn't do any like crazy skin serums i didn't do facials i didn't do anything with my actual skin because again it's like it was so irritated already that it's like i didn't want to try to like touch it a lot i tried not to wear makeup a lot so i didn't do like anything crazy it's not like i have some like magical face wash for you or like a magical cream or anything so i just use like the basics a face wash moisturizer and like left it be so i'm going to show you the supplements that i took in my holy grail supplement that actually like helped clear my acne so the first two are the ones that just kind of helped with my gut and my kidneys because those were really crucial to like my overall health so the sbi protect powder by orthomolecular products is the company and i've got a few other things from them as well but this is for your gut so this is a powder and i use this every single day i normally put it in protein shakes or smoothies or something like that so 70 to 80 percent of your immune system lives in your gut so if you have a poor gut and an unhealthy gut it affects everything absolutely everything so that was huge for me to really heal my gut and yes i did have to do a very intense diet i was gluten-free dairy-free sugar-free had no coffee i was egg-free and i did make a video explaining like my food rotations that i did because my whole diet change was a big thing but i'm trying just to focus on the acne and stuff so healing your gut is very important and then this the kidney it's called kidney correct and this is from designs for health and so this was what i took for my kidneys to kind of just give them what they need to like function properly and then here it is the metal x synergy so this is from the same brand as my as my kidney supplement so this is designs for health brand so metal x energy is what this is this is what healed my acne detoxing was so crucial to my overall health from my gut health to all my skin health to drainage getting rid of toxins is huge so like i said i worked up from one a day to six a day and then i think i took six a day for four months three months yeah i think i took six a day of these for about four months consistently i was definitely taking a lot but it worked so i will not argue with taking supplements if it works i remember that just being like such a huge thing i remember like crying on the phone and like talking to my mom sometimes being like i'll do anything if it works and i feel like if you're watching this video it's probably because you either have struggled with acne or you're struggling with it now or maybe you've got a friend or a child or someone else who's struggling with it and you know that feeling of like you would do anything to feel better like you would pay any price if it works like that's all you want is you just want something to work so desperately i mean i was 100 in that boat and i just i'm really thankful that i'm here today making this video because that's all i ever wanted like was just to be able to say that like this worked i was hoping that one day i would get here being able to share what helped in case anyone else is going through that same journey so one thing i do want to say is i've definitely become a big advocate now for like your internal health and your physical health is so crucial to everything i will probably take supplements forever you know i will probably now eat as clean and as organic as i can forever because it made such a huge difference in my health something too is that like the heavy metals that were being found in my system specifically all of the individual names were popping up in my naturopath looked all of them up and a lot of them were in pesticides fungicides herbicides like those kinds of things that get sprayed on our fruits and vegetables so like eating organic was pretty crucial for me specifically because those were my specific issues and something that like i've also really thought about is the importance of like a customized diet a customized supplement plan and a nutrition plan because like i mentioned earlier i was trying to piece together my own plan before i actually saw someone and it made the world of difference you know to actually get tests done and for them to check all of your stuff and be like yep like these specific things are happening to you it's your kidneys it's your lymphatic system it's these toxins it's your gut like those were the big things for me and it being like let's tackle every single one of them and like we're gonna get you better and again i think having a custom plan was like crucial for me because the way they tested it um they tested me for like all my vitamin levels and deficiencies i was really deficient in a lot of things i know that i talked to y'all about birth control and birth control can actually deplete a lot of vitamins um and when i got tested and they checked all of my vitamins and minerals and stuff in my system i was actually really depleted in like all of the vitamins that birth control is known to deplete so like that was one of the cool things about going to a naturopath was a they're obviously kind of like in line with what i wanted to do like i wanted to heal it naturally i just i had this gut feeling that i could and i don't even know how to explain it but they can basically test what supplements are actually going to like mesh well with your body like what your body is actually going to respond well to i got all those tests done so all of a sudden it had all of my like issues like in the system so it could pair what supplements were actually going to work best for me and i remember like a good example of that was i wanted to get on a good multivitamin because i was depleted in a lot of things and so she brought in a couple different supplements so there was one multivitamin that was like whole foods based so it had a lot of fruits in it and i have had some sensitivities and reactions to fruits in the past and i told her that like sometimes it just does not sit well with like my throat and my asthma and stuff and so she brought one that was whole foods that did have a lot of like fruit in it and then she brought one that didn't have like fruits or anything in it and so when she tested the two the one with whole foods tested like super bad for me and then the supplement that didn't have any like fruits in it was like spot on it was like a perfect match or something so like my next appointment i like those vitamins worked so well for me and i wasn't depleted in anything anymore like that multivitamin was like a perfect match for me and like i didn't even know that technology existed like i didn't even know that was a thing and people are out here doing like custom hair care and like shampoo formulas and like all this customized stuff and it's like why aren't we doing that more with like customized health plans like why aren't we doing that like with everything like with our health so i definitely just i've loved my experience with like really getting on track with a customized plan and supplements and stuff so i highly recommend that uh if that is something that you feel could help you and this is not a quick fix either this takes a lot of time and dedication and patience because i mean from the time that i saw them from the time that my acne actually started getting better it was about six months from like march to august with six months so it's not going to be a quick fix and it was really hard at times it was hard to sit there and feel like it was going so slow and feel like nothing was changing and nothing was getting better but if you stick with it it will so i would definitely encourage you guys to just like take action take your health into your own hands ask a lot of questions um go see people if you like have a feeling that you really need to go see someone like go see someone so that is my health journey i can't believe that my skin is as clear as it is and that the heavy metal detoxing worked and it really affected everything taking good high quality supplements changed everything for me things still aren't perfect i'm still working on it i still take these supplements but i'm getting closer to kind of being at like that maintenance dose and like maintenance vitamins and supplements and not having to be like as hardcore with like how many i take in a day and stuff my next journey honestly is probably going to be kind of trying to heal the discoloration you know heal like the acne scarring and like looking into that a little bit more and that's the kind of stuff that like yes i'd be happy to go to a dermatologist and like go someone who can like kind of do the actual skin stuff but like the actual acne i just felt so strongly that like this i just don't think this could be healed by a facial i don't think this is going to be healed by a medicine antibiotic and antibacterial thing like i just i just had this gut feeling that like that's not gonna do it like there's gotta be something more going on because i had never dealt with acne before i just felt like it was out of the blue something's gotta be happening something's wrong and i just can't believe like i was right and it worked you know going somewhere and healing it naturally worked and like trying not to get emotional because like it was such a journey um probably probably like the loneliest i've ever felt the hardest thing i've gone through so far and i'd love to make another video i plan on making another video of like all the other stuff i've touched on like the gut stuff and like there's a lot of other stuff to that food sensitivities there was a lot going on um but the acne is like everyone can see that people can't see if you have a gut problem you know people can't see that i never thought that acne would take such a toll on you like emotionally and mentally as it did and so i'm just so i'm so thankful and i feel so blessed that like i've gotten so much better um so yeah i'm excited for my next little chapter of like maybe just trying to kind of heal the acne scarring and and now kind of focus on that skincare part of it now that i've got like my actual health under control or like better controlled i guess so that is it thank you guys so much for watching um i really hope that this helped someone i hope that this encouraged someone at least to maybe really look into it maybe look into your health you know kind of self-reflect and see if maybe there's things you could try um to heal it naturally see what that root causes you know try to find what's actually going on not just try and like feel the symptom like you want to try and heal the root cause of something so i hope that this helped i wish you all the best and all the luck in your acne journey if you're going through it please feel free to like comment any questions you have down below i would love to help anyone that i can i'll try to answer anything that i can so thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you in my next video bye you