:Clear Skin Blog

For most people who experience acne in their teens, it starts to fade as they grow older. This is commonly attributed to the hormonal swings of puberty subsiding, but that’s a rather simplistic explanation. It’s true that during puberty, your body prioritizes the production of sex hormones. This means that your body uses more coenzyme-A for making these hormones, at the expense of coenzyme-A’s other functions (such as metabolizing skin oil) to a certain extent. Naturally, things tend to balance out after puberty, as coenzyme-A is more readily available for non-hormonal uses, such as metabolizing your skin oil before it clogs your pores.

However, that’s not the only reason that most adults tend to clear up. The other factor is your glands. The oil glands in your pores also tend to naturally produce less oil with age. As such, less coenzyme-A is needed to keep your skin under control.

So why do some adults still get adult acne? Unfortunately, there are a lot of things that your body becomes less proficient at with age, and one of those things is absorbing and utilizing vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. Thus, your supply of coenzyme-A actually gets smaller, as your body becomes less effective at absorbing vitamin B5 and transforming it into coenzyme-A. Especially as one enters middle age and above, it becomes very important to take the right nutritional supplements regularly. And in the case of adult acne, that means getting a sufficient amount of vitamin B5.

Remember, even though you’ll have less skin oil to worry about as you grow older, your body becomes less effective at absorbing and activating the fuel you need to metabolize it. When oil production outpaces metabolism, sometimes you need to provide a surplus of fuel to get the job done.