I have read a lot in the past about using various B vitamins to help treat acne vulgaris. The only problem is that everywhere I look, they are telling me that it’s a different B vitamin you should use to treat acne. Most commonly, I found it was vitamin B5, but I also found other places saying that it’s B12 and even B1 that you should use, not B5. So, I wondered, has anyone out there had true success, and not had any negative side effective by dosing up on B vitamins to help treat their acne? Of course, there would be a lot of concern if B vitamins were not water soluble, since they could quickly build up to toxic levels in the body, however, most B vitamins, including B5, are water soluble, which means you pass them out of your body when you urinate on a daily basis, so there is no danger of toxicity, unless you are taking such high levels that the body cannot get rid of it quickly enough. Vitamin B 5 also goes by the name pantothenic acid. You see this ingredient in a lot of hair skin and nails vitamins, and in a lot of natural acne treatments since it is therapeutic for the skin, however, there is some concern over using primarily just higher doses of the vitamin to help treat acne since there are some side effects reported anecdotally such as lethargy. I have a problem with extremely high dosing of any vitamin, and that is what some of these B5 acne treatments want you to do. Any high dosage of any vitamin or mineral should be treated with EXTREME caution, as any vitamin or mineral, or any other one pronged treatment for that matter, can become toxic to a person. Even the most healthy of vitamins, like vitamin C, can be taken too much. You can get mouth sores and overly acidic from taking that, and that is one of the most harmless vitamins out there. B vitamins assist in the metabolization and processing of fats and carbohydrates in the body. As you know, B12 is one of the B vitamins that is used to infuse energy into the body by giving you excellent bursts of energy. The interesting part of the B vitamin theory is that it somehow traces acne back to the storage of fat in cells or something of that nature. To be honest, I didn’t research it much because I happen to disagree with mega dosing like this.

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