I have vitiligo. It sucks.
I was diagnosed at age 19 - I am now 32.
Many of my diet choices over the years have been at least partially guided by the thought: "maybe this could help reverse my vitiligo..." - nothing ever has.
I learned around age 23 about "leaky gut". I was working with the theory that a "leaky gut" (from grains, PUFAs, certain vegetables, standard western diet) was causing harmful particles to get into the bloodstream, which were then creating havoc in the system. One of these horrible symptoms being vitiligo.
Paleo -> Low carb paleo -> keto -> carnivore -> carnivore and honey / dairy
All of these were done, at least in part, with the hope that vitiligo would disappear. Maybe if I cleaned up the digestion and repaired the intestine, then the autoimmune condition would regress / revert to previously... this did not work.
Does the bio-energetic view have an understanding of why this condition happens? OR thoughts on how to reverse?
Ideas I have looked into:
- leaky gut
- copper deficiency
- folate / b12 deficiencies
- UVB therapy (this technically works, but is like trying to scoop water back upstream..... not a long terms strategy. It also damages the skin over time if done too much).
- high dose vitamin D (check figure 9 A pilot study assessing the effect of prolonged administration of high daily doses of vitamin D on the clinical course of vitiligo and psoriasis really cannot explain why this would happen... I wonder if high dose vitD is actually immunosuppressive).
- I have even been so desperate as to look into homeopathy. German New Medicine (GNM) associates vitiligo with "separation conflict". I.e. a traumatic separation. This first sounded attractive to me as an explanation, because my vitiligo appeared around a very stressful period, where: my "first love" dumped me, my grandfather died suddenly, and my older brother left home (all in the space of a month or so). However, their "cure" for the condition seemed very dubious - hocus pocus voodoo woo woo... too good to be true. So I didn't pursue it further.
I had guessed that the bio-energetic view would be some kind of "energy" problem. For whatever reason, the melanocytes do not have the energy to create pigment...... why? how? how to reverse?
Interestingly, I also have high autoimmunity in the thyroid gland - apparently this is common in people with vitiligo.
I'm really sick of this condition. And sick and tired of being sick and tired along with it.
I was diagnosed at age 19 - I am now 32.
Many of my diet choices over the years have been at least partially guided by the thought: "maybe this could help reverse my vitiligo..." - nothing ever has.
I learned around age 23 about "leaky gut". I was working with the theory that a "leaky gut" (from grains, PUFAs, certain vegetables, standard western diet) was causing harmful particles to get into the bloodstream, which were then creating havoc in the system. One of these horrible symptoms being vitiligo.
Paleo -> Low carb paleo -> keto -> carnivore -> carnivore and honey / dairy
All of these were done, at least in part, with the hope that vitiligo would disappear. Maybe if I cleaned up the digestion and repaired the intestine, then the autoimmune condition would regress / revert to previously... this did not work.
Does the bio-energetic view have an understanding of why this condition happens? OR thoughts on how to reverse?
Ideas I have looked into:
- leaky gut
- copper deficiency
- folate / b12 deficiencies
- UVB therapy (this technically works, but is like trying to scoop water back upstream..... not a long terms strategy. It also damages the skin over time if done too much).
- high dose vitamin D (check figure 9 A pilot study assessing the effect of prolonged administration of high daily doses of vitamin D on the clinical course of vitiligo and psoriasis really cannot explain why this would happen... I wonder if high dose vitD is actually immunosuppressive).
- I have even been so desperate as to look into homeopathy. German New Medicine (GNM) associates vitiligo with "separation conflict". I.e. a traumatic separation. This first sounded attractive to me as an explanation, because my vitiligo appeared around a very stressful period, where: my "first love" dumped me, my grandfather died suddenly, and my older brother left home (all in the space of a month or so). However, their "cure" for the condition seemed very dubious - hocus pocus voodoo woo woo... too good to be true. So I didn't pursue it further.
I had guessed that the bio-energetic view would be some kind of "energy" problem. For whatever reason, the melanocytes do not have the energy to create pigment...... why? how? how to reverse?
Interestingly, I also have high autoimmunity in the thyroid gland - apparently this is common in people with vitiligo.
I'm really sick of this condition. And sick and tired of being sick and tired along with it.