Food [February 22]

[Fred]

This months poll above asks: What effect has Food had on your psoriasis and/or psoriatic arthritis ?

Voting is open to members and guests, you can choose more than one option and our members can also leave a comment if they wish.

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Over the years I have tried a few things with my diet, but have never noticed any difference in psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis good or bad from what I'm eating.

[Kat]

I've tried cutting back, adding healthy, removing unhealthy, etc and still working on it as far as diet goes.

But for me, I've never noticed any increase/decrease in my psoriasis during any of the times I've made changes. I do believe diet can help but I'm not certain how much impact it has on psoriasis, at least I haven't noticed any difference based on foods. Since some people have said they have had some success with diet and psoriasis I will say that we're all different and the things work for one person don't necessarily work for others. But, it also could be that I just haven't found the right food combinations that work for me either since I'm still trying to get liver, blood sugar, inflammation and weight under control.

[Fred]

You are right "we are all different" some of us do well on one treatment where others may fail. I wonder if the effect of foods could also be down to the severity or the time one has had psoriasis.

Most of the threads in Naturel are people that haven't had psoriasis long or not a lot of it, so could it be that diet can help those but not someone with very bad psoriasis or had for many years.

[D Foster]

I have never really noticed any difference at all in the food that i have eaten , nothing seems to have changed anything. I do take vitamin D which seems to have an effect though so I suppose that it may be that foods that contain high levels of certain vitamins could make a difference.

[jiml]

I've never associated what I eat with my psoriasis, throughout my adult life I've been on many subtle changes in diet as times have changed during my life from very plain food to many different spicy dishes from curries to chilli and Mexican foods and have never noticed it make a difference

[Turnedlight]

I haven’t found any link to food, I tried eliminating the nightshades for a short while but it didn’t seem to do anything.
I can understand why food might affect you as an allergic thing but I find it hard see how it actually would affect psoriasis? Is it to do with inflammation?

[Fred]

Five no difference so far, keep em coming.

Sorry TL I don't know, personally I don't see how food can cause inflammation.

[Caroline]

I avoid:
Tomatoes - I don’t like them anyway and they have an effect on my skin.
Peanut butter - I only eat occasionally, when I eat that structurally, e.g. every day, my feet start to hurt.
Blue grapes - though I don’t feel an effect, it is part of things to avoid in the Psorinovo diet as it contains grape acid that can have an effect on the PsA.

I have not yet found food that has a positive effect.

[Kat]

Most of the threads in Naturel are people that haven't had psoriasis long or not a lot of it, so could it be that diet can help those but not someone with very bad psoriasis or had for many years. 

Interesting. You may be on to something there.

I do take vitamin  D which seems to have an effect though so I suppose that it may be that foods that contain high levels of certain vitamins could make a difference.

I've been on Vit D supplements for years and haven't noticed any change, also I've tried light therapy and even natural sun for a bit and nothing seemed to make it better. Didn't make it worse either though.

I've never associated what I eat with my psoriasis, throughout my adult life I've been on many subtle changes in diet as times have changed during my life from very plain food to many different spicy dishes from curries to chilli and Mexican foods and have never noticed it make a difference

Same

I haven’t found any link to food, I tried eliminating the nightshades for a short while but it didn’t seem to do anything.
I can understand why food might affect you as an allergic thing but I find it hard see how it actually would affect psoriasis? Is it to do with inflammation?

I think that's the idea. I do know there are some foods (Sugars, fats, gluten, carbs,....) that can cause inflammation and there are anti inflammatory diets out there. My inflammation markers are high and it could be caused by diet, psoriasis, arthritis etc. It could be the psoriasis aggravates the others or the diet aggravates the psoriasis... but so far still searching to see if anything seems to be connected and what to do about it. I'm not sold on there being a diet that would help everyone with psoriasis though I do think individually it's something to think about.

I avoid:
Tomatoes - I don’t like them anyway and they have an effect on my skin.
Peanut butter - I only eat occasionally, when I eat that structurally, e.g. every day, my feet start to hurt.
Blue grapes - though I don’t feel an effect, it is part of things to avoid in the Psorinovo diet as it contains grape acid that can have an effect on the PsA.

I have not yet found food that has a positive effect.

I love all of the above.... I did try at one point to cut back on nightshades but didn't notice a difference. I eat natural peanut butter now (it's ok, I find it a bit dry at times probably due to the oil separating and me not getting it mixed well enough) and grapes I rarely eat but do like. What does the peanut butter hurt your feet? Or I should ask what is it in the peanut butter that you think is connected to your feet hurting?

[KatT]

Haven't tried to eliminate food to see the effect on psoriasis.  I find it very very difficult to change my diet whether it's to lose weight or another reason.