It is often stated that you are what you eat and that your diet has a diet effect on the condition of your skin. So should vitamin tablets be able to help with treating acne?

Sadly this is not the case. If you are suffering from acne and thought that be taking a few vitamin pills will end all your woes then you are likely to be very disappointed.

As we are aware acne is generally a case of their being an hormone imbalance within the body. Now the body is able to regulate these hormones if it is able to receive essential nutrients such as vitamins.

But this is no magic bullet so thinking that by taking vitamins will be the answer is a mistake. In order to see any real benefit, you need to consider a much larger picture.

One of the vitamins that are thought to be beneficial for acne is vitamin b5. This is not the case and it has been shown that if this is taken in very high dosages then it can be very damaging for the overall health of the body. As well as this it has no impact in the treatment of acne.

Even worse, if you are taking this vitamin in large doses, there are side effects such as tiredness and loss of energy. It really is not worth taking the risk in order to beat your acne. If your overall health is suffering than treating acne will not be the only problem that you will have to deal with.

The vitamin b groups are meant to work together in proportion in order to maintain the overall health of your body. If this does not happen, and you are just popping lots of vitamin b tablets then your body will just not be able to cope and this can lead to problems as mentioned above.

Also it is thought that excess amounts of b5 takes away the ability of other b vitamins – namely b3, b6 and b12, all of which have their own important function to perform.

You will be please to here that it is not all doom and gloom when it comes to taking vitamins. Rather than take b5 you can take pantethine instead. The advantage this vitamin has over b5 is that it is more easily absorbed in to the body.

But whilst this may seem to be a great alternative you still need to be caution not to take too much.