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  • I was always home schooled until I got to high school, so I didn't have any friends.

  • People were making fun of me, so I started lifting it just to get a little bit of confidence.

  • I used to drink a gallon of milk every single day, along with mass gainers and proteins.

  • More calories, eight from Dairy More.

  • My axe cop works back me.

  • In the beginning, it was just like a lot of readiness.

  • Over time, I was getting, you know, a couple pimples and then turned into a couple of cystic boils on my face.

  • I would never have less than three or four assists on my face at any time, so I thought about maybe dairies because of my acne.

  • I was always this skinny kid.

  • I was always kind of like the nerdy kid.

  • I was always home schooled until I got to high school but didn't have any friends.

  • People were making fun of me, so I started lifting.

  • And just to get a little bit of confidence, I really found out like fitness is my passion.

  • It's something that makes me happy without anybody else needing to approve of it, I needed to eat a lot of calories, and the easiest way to gain weight at that time was just getting mass.

  • Keener's and milk.

  • There was something called the gallon of milk a day diet.

  • You would drink a gallon of milk throughout the day, along with the regular foods you're having, along with the mass gainers and proteins and stuff that you were eating that was just like an extra 1500 calories.

  • The more I like gained weight, more calories that had to eat.

  • The more calories I ate from dairy, the more my acne got worse.

  • I first started struggling with acne when I was probably about 16.

  • Couple Whitehead's here and there.

  • When I was struggling with my acne, a girl at school came up to me and said, I would never date you because you're ugly.

  • As soon as I got to school, the people like me, they point out my acne and said, like, Look at that big one on your nose, Rudolph, remember?

  • I just got through that day and I just was like, I can't wait to get home.

  • And as soon as I got back into my car at the end of the day, just like, broke down in tears like is just overwhelming our time.

  • I was getting, you know, a couple of pimples and then turned into a couple cystic, you know, boils on my face.

  • I would never have less than three or 45 cysts on my face at any time.

  • I went to dermatologists.

  • They started me on Accutane and it didn't do anything for like, the first.

  • He was like five or six months.

  • They said a lot of the people who are doing Accutane have taken way protein powders and exports supplements out, and they've seen improvements that I thought about it.

  • I was like, Well, way protein powder is literally derived from dairy, so maybe dairy is a condom.

  • Acne.

  • So I went vegan, and I did see some improvements.

  • I took the dare.

  • Not that helped my acne, but I've been decided, like, Okay, maybe I'm gonna actually seriously approach veganism for a longer term diet.

  • A vegan diet has changed my life because I've been lifting for 11 years now.

  • Almost bloggers and I've been vegan for five years of so I've been able to see the difference in like my performance for veganism in after I left Monday through Saturday s 06 days a week, and I usually lift for about an hour and a half to two hours a day.

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  • It's hard.

  • Yes, this is this movie I do every single day after a workout.

  • I do, too.

  • Frozen bananas that, like chopped up.

  • And then I do a cup of like any assorted fruit.

  • So right now I'm gonna do a cup of mangoes.

  • Do about three cups of Ripple, which is a plant based its P protein milk.

  • Do a scoop of vegan protein and then just to get some extra greens, that but however much kale or spinach in there just like a big handful of I remember our have at least four chicken pies a day, I would have a stake every single day as well.

  • I have been begin for almost the same amount of time that Brian has almost five years.

  • I actually had cystic acne as well as Brian, and he actually inspired me after going vegan I literally like, I remember the last time before all this I was getting three or four like every single week feels like, completely clear where it was before that He's a really important part of my life is also really important for me to just make people not feel like they're less than anyone else because they have their acne.

  • It's about a year and a half ago I started my YouTube channel called Team Acne and basically just talk through my journey.

  • Now my side effects of state just about the same as always, give, like little stories about what I've been through, aspects of my own acne journey try to encourage people through that.

  • When I started having acting, there was literally at the time there was nobody, especially there was no like males talking about it.

  • Sometimes I'll shoot food videos.

  • Actually, today I just want to record a little bit of like some positive vibes.

  • Some like encouraging words.

  • About a year ago I started working on this thing called the Acne Program, and it's just basically like I took everything you could possibly need to learn about, happy from like what you can do naturally to hear it from like what you're gonna experience when you go to a dermatologist, put it into course, people will be able to get a vegan.

  • Diet isn't necessarily a cure all for everybody's acting.

  • There's so many different factors.

  • But it's also important to keep in your mind that having acne isn't the end of the world, and it's okay to have acted.

  • So a lot of people will ask me if I think veganism is the reason that my acting was able to clear up entirely and I think it's hard.

  • But I think everybody has a different reason that they're acting is happening.

  • Sometimes it's hormonal or genetic, and sometimes it's like a food like mine.

  • My stress more on my not sleep being by using a different detergent.

  • There's a lot of different things.

  • Don't think there's any one factor that's gonna improve.

  • Someone's acting 100% without having to focus on anything else.

  • I've changed the way that I even look at my skin, so even if I still have some blood inches or some marks, I feel confident.

  • I love myself and I don't feel like I'm any less than anybody else.

I was always home schooled until I got to high school, so I didn't have any friends.

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