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Walter Kempner diet treated and healed psoriasis too.
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Psoriasis is caused by inflammation.
The specific causes are:
- endotoxins (low bile flow and enzymes production)
- b-vitamin deficiency (real deficiency and/or functional deficiency caused by antinutrients)
- dental infections
Lecithin, b-complex, bile acids (ox bile or dehydrocholic acid or artichoke leaf extract) are the basic supplements.
Antimicrobials like oregano oil may greatly help as often there is a hidden (focal) infections causing inflammatory reactions!
That's why you have to have no dental infections especially heavy dental caries and infected dead teeth because antimirobials can not easily reach that areas as there is not good blood flow.
Daily sauna helps in many people immediately as it does the work that kidneys in psoriatics may not do effectively. You can improve the detoxification by drinking more water but make sure your kidneys are not severely compromised as you might make more harm than good.
A lot of water soluble toxins and antinutrients are normally excreted by kidneys! If there is some issue with kidneys or inflammation induced lymph stagnation a lot of water soluble toxins and antinutrients stay in the body and interfere with its normal biological processes.
This may directly lead to psoriasis.
Wow really!?! Today I woke up with a patch of scalp psoriasis. Two weeks ago I started taking 400 mcg of folinic acid (from calcium folinate) to lower my elevated homocysteine... maybe the folate is causing my psoriasis as well. I can't figure out what else it could be. I've already eliminated all starches and allergenic foods from my diet and gut-wise I've been feeling better than I have in years; then out of the blue, psoriasis.My mom experienced relief by dropping a folate supplement. Could also relate to riboflavin deficiency.
There is no single b-vitamin deficiency which would cause psoriasis. Or at least I don't know which one would it be.
I experienced clearing up with folate, b-2 and B1 taken one at a time.
The point is that psoriasis is not a skin disease rather than autonomic nervous system dysfunction. It was proved many times in different studies.
B-vitamins play a huge role in ATP production. Which type of cells in the body are the most sensitive to disruption of energy in form of ATP?
Neurons!
@JohnP The link to a single b vitamin could be "MTFHR" and undermethylation. I learned from a recent Chris Masterjohn video that most undermethylation issues are actually related to riboflavin deficiency, and even low level supplementation can take care of it.
In quickly Googleing psoriasis and MTHFR there do seem to be links. I have seen other accounts where folate and multiple B vitamins helped, but in my mom's case the folate was given because she is an "undermethylator". The rash around her joints went away when she stopped taking it. Now I believe she is experiencing more relief with low dose riboflavin... will have to monitor and follow up to be sure.
@Zpol I talked to my mother but it sounds like she has too much going on to give you precise answer. She said she took some kind of ox bile that made the rash go away completely, and currently taking a Designs for Health (?) multivitamin with some riboflavin until it runs out.
Psoriasis is caused by inflammation.
The specific causes are:
- endotoxins (low bile flow and enzymes production)
- b-vitamin deficiency (real deficiency and/or functional deficiency caused by antinutrients)
- dental infections
Lecithin, b-complex, bile acids (ox bile or dehydrocholic acid or artichoke leaf extract) are the basic supplements.
Antimicrobials like oregano oil may greatly help as often there is a hidden (focal) infections causing inflammatory reactions!
That's why you have to have no dental infections especially heavy dental caries and infected dead teeth because antimirobials can not easily reach that areas as there is not good blood flow.
Daily sauna helps in many people immediately as it does the work that kidneys in psoriatics may not do effectively. You can improve the detoxification by drinking more water but make sure your kidneys are not severely compromised as you might make more harm than good.
A lot of water soluble toxins and antinutrients are normally excreted by kidneys! If there is some issue with kidneys or inflammation induced lymph stagnation a lot of water soluble toxins and antinutrients stay in the body and interfere with its normal biological processes.
This may directly lead to psoriasis.
Fasting is probably the most restorative and recalibrative thing you can do, with coffee to increase cell recycling and a bit of salt, good fat and taurine added to the cup to heal the liver. It also specifically targets beer belly/visceral fat which is common with drinkers. Through this it increases insulin sensitivity and cures metabolic syndrome. Once the health has stabilized, then a raypeat antiinflammatory diet is the optimal path forward.Hi,
I found this thread through an internet search. A colleague suggested Ray Peat's anti-inflammatory diet may help with my psoriasis. Your post resonated with me, as it corroborates a lot of what I have read about psoriasis over the last week.
I'm ashamed to admit I have alcohol problems, and have only just stopped drinking as a result of poor liver function. I don't like conventional psoriasis medicines, and want to take a holistic approach to (hopefully) restoring my health.
Alcoholism has likely made me vitamin B deficient, and I imagine my body is not excreting toxins effectively, either. You sound like someone far more knowledgeable than myself, so I was wondering if you have any other recommendations?! I'm overwhelmed by all the things I'm reading, as I desperately try to compensate for twenty years of alcohol abuse. I think the psoriasis is a manifestation of something more serious, which is worrying me. Though, obviously my liver is showing signs of having been damaged.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Fasting is probably the most restorative and recalibrative thing you can do, with coffee to increase cell recycling and a bit of salt, good fat and taurine added to the cup to heal the liver. It also specifically targets beer belly/visceral fat which is common with drinkers. Through this it increases insulin sensitivity and cures metabolic syndrome. Once the health has stabilized, then a raypeat antiinflammatory diet is the optimal path forward.