In my last post I answered a question I get asked A LOT!

WHY DOES MY CHILD FLARE, HAVE PERIODS OF CLEARING, THEN FLARE AGAIN?!

It's maddening, right?

A primary reason I see for this in my practice is microbe life cycles.

There are 4 phases in the bacteria life cycle.

Lag Phase: Bacteria aren't growing yet. They're getting acquainted with their new environment (i.e. your child the host), and they make nutrients so they can grow and start dividing.
Log Phase: Bacteria are growing and replicating. FAST. This continues until they run out of nutrients or toxic metabolites build up, slowing cell growth rates and causing some to start dying.
Stationary Phase: The size of a population of bacteria stays the same, even though some continue to divide and grow, and others die. Growth and death rates are about the same in this phase.
Death Phase: Just like it sounds! Now there are more bacteria dying then there are replicating.

When the microbes die, toxins are released. Those toxins can trigger flares.

More toxins = more flares, so at certain phases of bacterial life cycles, your child is more likely to flare.

This is why chasing external triggers (like food, environmental, etc.) isn't solving the problem, and why your child can have periods of clear skin, and then flare again with what seems like no rhyme or reason.

When the gut is leaky those toxins get into the bloodstream, trigger immune responses, and your child flares.

This is why in my practice I focus on rebalancing dysbiotic bacteria (and other microbes, they have life cycles too) in your child's gut, and work on decreasing gut permeability.

Think this is happening with your child? LMK!

https://www.britannica.com/science/bacteria/Growth-of-bacterial-populations

https://easyscienceforkids.com/life-cycle-of-bacteria/