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Do you need more heat to your skin?! We used to think tanning improved acne because we believed the skin temperature elevation at the time of tanning could kill bacteria. Tanning is not enough Hot!. Actually clearing the skin of bacteria is a cure for acne, without any of the Hot Hot!. When you get phototherapy in the visible light range with a laser or IPL treatment you generate enough heat to conquer the Staph aureus and the E. coli that that live in the skin and cause most  break outs, that's treating with what some of us like to call Hot Hot Hot!.There are some other strategies to killing off acne, don't just stop with heat though. A major weapon that white blood cells use to kill bacteria is to poison them after they are surrounded off. In fact the WBC actually engulfs the bacteria and then produces a poison pill that is sort of like scrubbing the kitchen sink! A chemical form of the Hot! The white blood cell can produce lethal to bacteria oxidants similar to peroxide and bleach.And don't think the bacteria cannot fight back. The bacteria can turn around and produce a pigment that is similar to the same compounds that give both color and anti-oxidant healthy products to  vegetables such as tomatoes and carrots. "Just as colorful vegetables with antioxidants are touted for their ability to protect us against aging or cancer, we discovered that the GBS bacteria is pulling the same trick to protect itself against our immune system," said the study’s senior author, Victor Nizet, M.D., associate professor, UCSD Division of Infectious Diseases, and an attending physician at Children’s Hospital San Diego. So what is really best is to turn to those lasers, back to the Hot Hot Hot (locally, in a safe and comfortable way with your cosmetic medicine consultant) to kill off those tricky bacteria, so they are eliminated from your skin and your acne can begin to heal.