This is not to say that acneic skin is not healthy, to be clear, but of course social media tries to convince us that clear skin = healthiest
Although QVD inhibits caspase-1, it did not fully suppress 7-AAD + lytic death in our assays
Heist RS, Sands J, Bardia A, Shimizu T, Lisberg A, Krop I, Yamamoto N, Kogawa T, Al-Hashimi S, Fung SSM, Galor A, Pisetzky F, Basak P, Lau C, Meric-Bernstam F (2024) Clinical management, monitoring, and prophylaxis of adverse events of special interest associated with datopotamab deruxtecan
ACSL4 catalyzes the reaction of PUFAs to polyunsaturated fatty acid-coenzyme A (PUFA-CoA), and then the PUFA-CoA undergoes esterification by lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase 3 (LPCAT3) to become polyunsaturated fatty acid-phospholipids (PUFA-PLs), which are then oxidized by reactive oxygen species (ROS) to cytotoxic phospholipid hydroperoxides (PL-OOH), leading to cell death through membrane modification (Liu et al., 2025
In order to see improvement in skin texture and tone, you may need anywhere from 15 to 30 treatments