Health Boards
Wed-08-01-2020, 12:09 PM
So, this thread is for everybody who wants to follow my new journey with trying to heal psoriasis through diet and supplements. Also for myself; to follow my progress.
After failing on both Humira ( depression, a much reported side-effect ) and Stelara ( floored for a week per month with heavy flu symptoms, not to mention recuperation time )
on the 22th of july 2019 I began leaving out nightshade foods ( tomato, peppers and potatoes ) and gluten ( grains, pasta ).
But I did eat a lot of ricecakes, nuts and seeds )
This is the Pagano diet; Healing Psoriasis the natural way. Supplements; slippery elm bark tea and Safflower Petal tea.
Lost weight quickly but the psoriasis didn't subside; it just got worse.
on the 25 of september 2019 I've started doing the AIP Paleo diet. That's like Paleo only stricter. All the known allergens are left out ( tho shellfish is allowed )
no seeds
no nuts
( no glory )
no nightshades, grains or oils based on seeds and nuts )
Anyway, you can easily look this up. Heaven knows I did just that bordering obsession
took a standard probiotic, stopped the Slippery Elm but still continuing the Safflower Petal tea. Slippery Elm is supposed to create a muceous barrier on your intestinal walls. The AIP Paleo diet says no to this.
Other supplements; some Vitamine D, Fish oil capsules and digestive enzymes.
AIP Paleo is all about not letting food particles ( those on the no list ) not slip into your bloodstream. The idea is that you eliminate those foods as it is said that the intestinal walls of a person with a autoimmune disease are compromised. Or you can call it Leaky Gut, or hightnened permeability of the intestinal walls.
This is all in what is called the 'elimination stage' after which some foods can be reintroduced slowly and properly monitored. I have no idea how to do that yet, because symptoms are not immediately like in painfull autoimmune diseases like Psoriais Arthritis and such.
In the USA such diets are already being prescribed, albeit slowly and science is only just taking this more seriously.
Also, alcohol is not allowed in the 'elimination stage'
This was a hard one for me but I've managed not to drink since the first of January this year. And boy do I looooove my wine and cider.
So basically you could say I've begun this journey in earnest as of the first day of 2020.
I'm now down 9,5 kilo, which is nice.
As of today I'm taking an exta supplement; the probiotic Bacillus Coagulens. I read some interesting scientific reports on 'rheumathoid arthritis and this probiotic, where the results reported where mentioned as "borderline statistically improvement" Apparantly it takes care of harmfull intestinal bacterial growth and because it's spore forming will survive stomach acid and manages to do it's magic in your intestines.
Did I mention I lost weight? Not that I was much overweight but occurance and severity of psoriasis is higher in overweight people, I've read in my googling.
P scale; not so good yet. Daily showering, steel wire brush and calcipotriol salve to ease the scaliing.
Anyway, this is the first post, let me know if there are any questions and I'll update here when I get a chance.
After failing on both Humira ( depression, a much reported side-effect ) and Stelara ( floored for a week per month with heavy flu symptoms, not to mention recuperation time )
on the 22th of july 2019 I began leaving out nightshade foods ( tomato, peppers and potatoes ) and gluten ( grains, pasta ).
But I did eat a lot of ricecakes, nuts and seeds )
This is the Pagano diet; Healing Psoriasis the natural way. Supplements; slippery elm bark tea and Safflower Petal tea.
Lost weight quickly but the psoriasis didn't subside; it just got worse.
on the 25 of september 2019 I've started doing the AIP Paleo diet. That's like Paleo only stricter. All the known allergens are left out ( tho shellfish is allowed )
no seeds
no nuts
( no glory )
no nightshades, grains or oils based on seeds and nuts )
Anyway, you can easily look this up. Heaven knows I did just that bordering obsession
took a standard probiotic, stopped the Slippery Elm but still continuing the Safflower Petal tea. Slippery Elm is supposed to create a muceous barrier on your intestinal walls. The AIP Paleo diet says no to this.
Other supplements; some Vitamine D, Fish oil capsules and digestive enzymes.
AIP Paleo is all about not letting food particles ( those on the no list ) not slip into your bloodstream. The idea is that you eliminate those foods as it is said that the intestinal walls of a person with a autoimmune disease are compromised. Or you can call it Leaky Gut, or hightnened permeability of the intestinal walls.
This is all in what is called the 'elimination stage' after which some foods can be reintroduced slowly and properly monitored. I have no idea how to do that yet, because symptoms are not immediately like in painfull autoimmune diseases like Psoriais Arthritis and such.
In the USA such diets are already being prescribed, albeit slowly and science is only just taking this more seriously.
Also, alcohol is not allowed in the 'elimination stage'
This was a hard one for me but I've managed not to drink since the first of January this year. And boy do I looooove my wine and cider.
So basically you could say I've begun this journey in earnest as of the first day of 2020.
I'm now down 9,5 kilo, which is nice.
As of today I'm taking an exta supplement; the probiotic Bacillus Coagulens. I read some interesting scientific reports on 'rheumathoid arthritis and this probiotic, where the results reported where mentioned as "borderline statistically improvement" Apparantly it takes care of harmfull intestinal bacterial growth and because it's spore forming will survive stomach acid and manages to do it's magic in your intestines.
Did I mention I lost weight?
Not that I was much overweight but occurance and severity of psoriasis is higher in overweight people, I've read in my googling.P scale; not so good yet. Daily showering, steel wire brush and calcipotriol salve to ease the scaliing.
Anyway, this is the first post, let me know if there are any questions and I'll update here when I get a chance.
) 
always a nice side effect of this type of diet! Hopefully you'll start to see improvements in your Psoriasis symptoms as time goes by and your gut starts to heal. I started to see definite improvements after 2 weeks and continuing improvement over several months. But I guess everyone is different - I look forward to following your progress. As for slippery elm bark...yes tried the Pagano method (half heartedly I admit!) and didn't really notice much progress - it was going Paleo wot did it for me (although I didn't know that was what it was called at the time - it was just meat and green leafy vegetables as far as I was concerned.)
I have virtually dumped alcohol also. No more wine only alcohol free beer. Feel a lot better now.