Diets increasing insulin and mTOR signaling are pro-acne, while those lowering blood glucose and insulin are anti-acne.

“this has to do with the whole insulin pathway so when we talk about acne I'll talk about diets that create a high glycemic load we're not necessarily talking about the glycemic index of food you may know that when people measure the glycemic index of food they're looking at the blood sugar response after eating that food typically in isolation and not in combination with other Foods what I'm talking about is eating combinations of foods that induce high levels of insulin high levels of blood glucose that then lead to all sorts of things in the hormone Pathways and cell growth Pathways that exacerbate acne”