In his case, he had cystic acne, which can lead to severe scarring and permanent pockmarks. "Antibiotics... Accutane... [I] tried it all," says Gibson, who often "kept counting on it" to "go away on its own." Yet, he's now been free of his problematic acne for 20 years, saying the simple fix was right in the fruit aisle all along. Apples... yes, apples, were his key for curing his persistent acne.
The food-skin connectionGibson says he made the connection between the foods he was eating, the antibiotics he was taking and the health of his skin.