- Hey, my name's Brian.
I used to have really bad acne.
Wam, boom, bam, whamo!
But over the course of a year on Accutane,
I cleaned up a lot.
Now I'm in the final stretches of my treatment.
Enjoy my Accutane adventures.
What's up, my beautiful people?
It is week 58 and I am feeling really, really good!
Look, my face is almost completely clear.
I just have a little discoloration here,
I have a big ol' zit right here, kinda like a cyst.
It's not too big of a deal.
And then the ones that were up here
are starting to subside and I just have a couple of bumps
and whatnot and I'm feeling real, real good, I'm excited!
Oh yeah, I almost forgot guys.
I'm going to be putting out the last bit of
blue Endless Pursuit hoodies and shirts this week
so if you want one, you better pick it up now
because it's gonna be gone for everyone.
We're never printing blue ever again
because it was way too similar to CG Fitness'.
I'm not even gonna lie, completely transparent.
I didn't even realize when I made the design
and the colors and stuff and start printing it
that it looked so similar.
But afterwards, I looked at it and I was like
oh, damn, it looks really similar
and I'm the first to admit that, of course.
So, we're getting rid of the last ones
that we actually already printed
'cause obviously we can't just throw those away
'cause they're awesome and I love them.
But then, we're gonna switch over to gold
so that way we have variation between
myself and CG Fitness' clothing.
So, go on beyondtheweak.com and pick your hoodie
or your shirt up, we ship worldwide guys
and if you have one of these, it's gonna be really cool,
because we're never gonna print this again
so when I see you and I see that you have this on,
I'm gonna be like oh what, you have that limited line,
that one we only printed a certain amount of.
So yeah guys like I was saying,
my face is looking really good, I am so, so pleased
with the progress that I've been making.
It's week 58 now so we've been on it for a long time.
Of course, we're expecting some results
and I feel like I look great.
I just have a couple bumps left
and they're gonna be gone probably I'd say
in like three or four weeks.
But of course, we will see how it goes as we move on.
Now, a lot of you are gonna ask what is the new end day,
what's the new deadline for ending Accutane?
Well, what's cool about my doctor, my dermatologist,
is he's not that kinda guy who's like
let's set a date and then we're gonna stress
if we're getting, if your face is still broken out
and we're getting close to the end of the deadline.
I always think it's bad to make deadlines
when it's something that you're not sure
how long it's gonna take.
Of course deadlines are great
if you're trying to force yourself to finish an essay
or get some sort of job done
but when it comes to weight loss or losing your acne,
you're not sure how fast you can get rid of it,
you're not sure so why put this weird time limit
that's just causing more and more stress compounding
as it's getting closer to the deadline?
So, what happens is I went to my dermatologist on Tuesday
and talked to him about continuing the Accutane treatment
and he was all for it so what we're doing
is we've dropped it from 100 milligrams
to 80 milligrams a day and we're just gonna continue
doing what we've been doing.
That's a thing I really appreciate about my dermatologist.
I go in there and I talk to him
and he talks to me like a person,
he doesn't talk to me like I don't know anything
'cause I think he respects the amount of knowledge
that I do have so he talks to me about it
and he's like hey listen, I'm seeing,
you still have a little bit of nodular cystic acne,
I think you should continue, what are your feelings?
Of course, I've never had someone go on as long as you have
or I've never had someone take as big as a cumulative dose
as you have but I believe that you can continue, Brian,
and what do you think?
And then I say, that's exactly what I was thinking.
I would love to continue on where it's
I was gonna come in here and try to bribe you into it
and maybe wink and smile my way into it
but you already said yes so of course
I'm on board, let's continue.
Not all of us are as lucky as I am
to get a perfect dermatologist
but hopefully you can find someone that really matches you
because you get to choose your dermatologist,
you don't just get assigned.
You can go in there and you can meet your dermatologist
and you can be like I don't like this guy,
I want whoever else, I want to keep trying new people.
So, make sure you don't get stuck
with someone you don't like.
Make sure that they understand you.
My side effects are super minimal,
my face is dry just a little bit around the
of course lower part of my face like I always say
right here around my lips, gets really dry.
My lips themselves are dry as the Mojave Desert
like literally if you're walking on my lips
you could fall into a crack
and you would just be gone forever.
This is one right here,
there's a crack on my lip, you see it?
It literally hasn't gone away for like a week, ahhhh!
Onto the main part of this video.
Now, there weren't enough questions for me
to actually do a question answer session in this video
so make sure that you are leaving your questions
in this video's comments so that next week
I have enough questions to answer.
But what I'm gonna do instead
is something that I've been wanting to do for a while.
Basically these are the five contributing factors to
getting acne and five contributing factors
to getting rid of acne, at least the things
that I found are the most important for myself.
Now first let's go through the five things
that I found contribute to my acne the most.
Number one, the hugest number one is touching your face.
If you touch your face, you're transferring
all this dirt, all these oils, onto those spots
and then it just sits there and dries in
and then you touch it again because of course
you're touching the same spot over and over
and then you're just doing
this vicious cycle, it's horrible.
Number two, drinking dairy, any sort of dairy,
well I guess not drinking but drinking, eating,
anything dairy for me just ruins my face.
Not everyone is like this, of course,
not everyone is like this at all
but I think each person is genetically
predisposed differently towards how they react
with lactate or lactose.
Some people like John, for example,
really get like bad bubble guts and it really bloats them.
For me, that doesn't happen, but for me,
I get these really, really big cysts.
Number three, eating foods that are high in fats or sugars
and what I mean by that is like oily fats
like if I eat a big, gnarly burrito
and I eat that for multiple days in a row
or if I'm having like lots of excessively sugary stuff
like cereals or candy or sodas
or things that are very sugary in general.
This one is huge, stress definitely affects my acne.
When I get stressed and I don't mean like
negative where I'm like thinking oh man, I'm so stressed out
and I'm thinking about it,
but I mean just like there's a lot on my plate
like oh man, at four o' clock I have to go train this person
but at five o' clock I have to have the video up,
at six o'clock I have to have this
like when there's a lot of physical things to think about
and you're just like really stretching yourself thin,
that's when my body starts to produce a little bit more acne
because it's more physically stressing
and I think it's, I don't know,
but I think it's because I'm releasing more cortisol
which is causing me to break out more but who really knows?
And this one is huge, hair gels, hair creams,
anything that you put in your hair,
hair product is so bad for my acne.
If you guys have noticed, I don't know if you have,
I haven't used gel or anything in my hair
in such a long time.
The last time I used hair gel was for my competition
and then before that, I hadn't used it
for like four or five months.
The reason being is that when your hair starts to sweat,
when your head starts to sweat,
that gel gets taken from your hair
and then comes down your skin with gel
or wax or whatever you're using your hair
and for me personally it's wax so think about that.
Wax is now liquid going onto your pores,
filling those pores up, and then drying
and then you literally have a wax cap on your pore.
Of course, you're gonna break out pretty bad.
For me, that is the worst break out that I can get.
I'll literally, if I put gel in my hair and I go sweat,
I guarantee that somewhere around along the line of my hair,
there's gonna be a cyst.
So those are the five things that
contribute to my acne the most
which you can use to avoid and then hopefully
not get as much acne as I have over the years.
Anyways, let's move onto the five things
that I like the most to get rid of acne.
The things that I find the most important
to rid myself of my acne.
Now number one, and this is definitely my number one,
is change the thing that you're sleeping on every night.
If you have a lot of body acne,
make sure you change your sheets every night.
If you have a lot of face acne i.e. me,
change your pillow every night.
A tip that I can give you
because it is kinda annoying to wash your pillowcase
every other night is you can buy like five pillowcases
and then wash them all at the end of the week
and just flip them through or you can use a towel.
Sometimes I just use a towel and then the next night
I flip the towel over and then I'll toss it
and get another towel.
It's not as comfortable but it is pretty quick and easy.
Number two, this is so important, do not pick or pop.
I know it's impossible, all of us do it,
eventually you get out of the shower and you're like
oh, that one looks (exclaims) and you start pushing on it.
Be careful though!
Please, please, please be careful
because when you start getting a scab or something, right,
like you pop one and it kinda scabs over
and then you're picking at that scab
and you're like oh, I can pop it a little bit more
and then you just keep,
(Brian stutters)
and then you have like this big camp,
this big campsite of scabs and zits
that are just chilling in one spot
because you just keep messing with 'em, it's not good.
You gotta give your body time to recoup
and you gotta give your skin time to heal up so don't touch.
And number three sounds a little bit weird
but these are the things that for myself
I've experienced help with my acne.
Number three is eat more vegetables.
Now, I don't know why this happens for me
but when I have more vegetables, I don't break out as much.
This might be because I'm eating less of the sugary
and fatty foods or it may have something to do
with what's actually in the vegetables
but for me eating more vegetables and eating generally more
clean, I know I'm gonna get flack for that,
eating more clean helps me a lot
when it comes to not breaking out.
Now number four for getting rid of acne
is to minimize your product use
and what I mean by that is there's a lot of people
who are using 2.5% benzoyl peroxide in the morning
and then midday, they're using two salicylic pads
and then at night, they're using more benzoyl peroxide
and they're finishing off with exfoliation cream,
this, that, and the other,
and they have like six different products
they're putting on their face everyday
and they're wondering why their face is still breaking out.
Well, it may be that your face
wants to be more natural, you know?
Maybe it's having to fight all these things,
maybe it's having to produce more oil
because those things are drying it out so much,
because those things are irritating so much.
Maybe it's producing more oil
and maybe it's getting more irritated
and maybe it's breaking out more
because you're putting all those things on it.
Now myself, I used to use benzoyl peroxide.
Of course, I'm taking Accutane now, they told me not to use
any sort of topicals so I haven't used anything
and I mean of course Accutane is gonna help me
but I feel like it's made my skin a lot better.
I've also heard this from a lot of people
that used to take benzoyl peroxide
or whatever sort of topical cream.
They say once they stopped
and they just started using cold water
after washing their hands, it worked a lot better.
And the final thing that contributes
to getting rid of my acne is drinking more water.
When I actually drink more water, I for some reason see
a decrease in the amount of acne that I have
and if I find myself slipping
and I go multiple days drinking
under the amount of water that I'm intending,
then I see myself break out a little bit more
'cause I don't really know what the reason of this is
but I'm assuming that having that much water in you
allows you to properly flush your systems
as you're supposed to, you know?
Your blood is not thick,
your lymph can move around your body.
Things like that are able to do what they want to do
because they're having the right amount of water
that they are supposed to have.
Whereas if you're depleting yourself,
things aren't working as well so of course
maybe you're gonna break out a little bit more.
That's how it is for me.
Alright guys, there's the video.
Big shoutout one to Rian,
she just finished her Accutane treatment
I think just this week so congratulations
that's so, so huge and it's super exciting,
I know how it sorta feels even though I got told that
and then I had to keep going on.
Also, a big, big, big, big shoutout to Belgium,
anybody watching from Belgium,
I just shipped out a package to you guys
and I was like Belgium is in the house, what's up?
Thank you guys all for watching so much.
I appreciate it, you guys make my life fun,
you make my mornings fun because I get to wake up
and do videos like this and people are gonna watch it
and support and it's just amazing to me
so thank you guys so much.
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I love you guys, thank you all
for also checking out this video,
I will see you next week and I'll also see you tomorrow.
Team B on the week, Big J?
- Lift heavy or die admiring!
(Brian yells)