Acne being caused by an overload of sebum being produced makes perfect sense, but I’ve never understood why this is all caused by hormones. Why do the sebaceous glands freak out due to hormones and androgens when the body isn’t benefiting from, rather being harmed by large amounts of sebum?
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I’m sure others can explain it better but think of it like alergies. Allergies are your body having a strong immune response to something non threatening. Your body missidentifies for example peanuts as a threat. But the immune response is an integral part of your body.
Same with hormonal imbalances. Different parts of your body regulate or react to hormones as a normal part of your healthy functioning body. But they arn’t equipped to read handle sudden or extrem fluctuations of hormones thus they ‘do their job’ but this time it’s completely overboard. Kind of like someone cooking and the recepy has a typo saying ‘leave in the oven 20 hours’ and he just does what he is told even if this is clearly a terrible idea simply because they learned to always trust the recepie 😅
So the function is not useless. the functiuion is very important. It’s just the handling of extreme circumstances that’s not optimal.
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