The Nuance

Why Is Acne More Prevalent Than Ever?

It may have something to do with your skin’s microbiome

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
4 min readJun 27, 2019

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Photo by jurien huggins on Unsplash

BBack in the 1990s and early 2000s, doctors from the United States and Venezuela conducted acne exams on more than 1,300 people living in two remote sections of Paraguay and Papua New Guinea. The results of those exams appeared in a JAMA Dermatology paper and they…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.