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Acne infections destroy collagen and elastin fibers, interrupt the microvascular network and harm and kill cells. When healing happens, and an acne injury is not properly treated, a scar is left in the skin. The healthy skin is thus replaced by a scar.

Acne is a complex ailment that depends essentially on:

A) elevated sebum secretion in conjunction with

B) toxins within your skin due to the intake of protein of poor quality.

The above mentioned elements get deposited by your lymph system and placed underneath the skin. There they attract moisture from the outer layer of the skin making it feel dry. As a matter of fact excess build up will result in an excessive pressure on the sebaceous glands "pinching them off" and thus hindering the flow of sebum, 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 promotes excess water retention within your skin can pinch off the sebaceous glands within your skin and make you break out sebum where acne bacteria will proliferate, in minutes, specially if you are going through a period of elevated sebum production. Excessive salt and spices are common triggers, so if you eat too many potato chips you're exposing yourself to the high possibility of acne breakouts.

Heat destroys and/or changes essential nutrients. New damaging substances are formed in all animal or vegetable foods that are heated. Dietary protein is partially damaged in the cooking process. Protein molecules interact with dietary carbohydrates, creating new molecules. This process is known as "the Maillard reaction", and the same happens to peptides because of simple oxidation.

Stomach enzymes break protein amino acids, only if the targeted portion of the protein matches what the enzyme is created for. If the linked amino-acids have mutated due to heat there is no breakage. The un-separated amino-acid chains are carried by the lymph network, at a much slower 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 carries for use by the body's organs.

Cooked proteins transform into damaged peptides not absorbed into your blood stream but disposed off by your lymphatic network. And end up in the inner layer of your skin catching moisture and compressing your sebaceous glands to the point of blocking them, and thus pimples are formed.