{"id":8670,"date":"2012-10-10T06:35:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T06:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2018-11-03T12:31:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T12:31:56","slug":"new-study-shows-anti-acne-activity-for-barberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/new-study-shows-anti-acne-activity-for-barberry\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Shows Anti-Acne Activity For Barberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an alert setup so that anytime a new study on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PubMed<\/a> mentions acne, I get a notification. Today the virtual mailman delivered a new anti-acne study to me.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian researchers studied the effect of extract of dried fruit of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berberis_vulgaris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berberis vulgaris<\/a>(barberry) on teenage acne patients. This was a really simple study. They took 49 12-17 year old teenagers with moderate to severe acne, and gave them a daily dose either 600mg of dried barberry extract or a placebo 4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>They showed about 45% reduction in acne in the barberry treated group, pretty impressive result.<\/p>\n<p>But we should keep in mind that studies like this (the only study on the topic, not that many participants and unclear research methodology) tend to be positively biased. For several reasons, such as ideological bias of the researchers and positive studies are more likely to get published than \u2018negative\u2019 studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencebasedmedicine.org\/index.php\/author\/mark-crislip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Mark Crislip<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencebasedmedicine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science Based Medicine blog<\/a> says he discounts these findings by 50% to get a ballpark estimate of the real world effectiveness. Note that he\u2019s talking about this in the context of drug trials, but we can equally apply it to alternative and natural medicine studies.<\/p>\n<p>Other studies have showed barberry can suppress inflammation, and it\u2019s been historically used for rheumatic and other chronic inflammatory conditions. Given how <a title=\"Do Antioxidants Hold The Key To Curing Acne?\" href=\"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/inflammation-antioxidants-acne\/\">acne is linked to systemic inflammation<\/a> it\u2019s plausible that barberry, or other antioxidant supplements, can help with acne.<\/p>\n<p>So what to make of this? Well, not much from this study alone. But in the context of everything we know about acne and inflammation, it\u2019s one more piece to strengthen the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/buttersweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">buttersweet<\/a> @Flickr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an alert setup so that anytime a new study on PubMed mentions acne, I get a notification. Today the virtual mailman delivered a new anti-acne study to me. Iranian researchers studied the effect of extract of dried fruit of Berberis vulgaris(barberry) on teenage acne patients. This was a really simple study. They took &#8230; <a title=\"New Study Shows Anti-Acne Activity For Barberry\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/new-study-shows-anti-acne-activity-for-barberry\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Study Shows Anti-Acne Activity For Barberry\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,104],"tags":[52,109,36],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11087,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions\/11087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}