How I Cured My Psoriasis By Diet

[alan540]

The only downside is that it's cost me a small fortune buying a new wardrobe

[jiml]

Hey that's a great downside, Alan and one I'm sure you're glad to have

Yes I'm afraid that your dermatologist will show as much interest as your GP did, in fact my rheumatologist more or less told me unless I was to go along with their treatment they would discharge me and to get back to see them I would need another referal ...

I did get a slight compromise where they will give me a few months to try my ideas and if by the next meeting it hasn't worked they will give me the option of changing drugs or being discharged

You can read it about it here [Group Specific]

[alan540]

If it's any help, when I had a bad outbreak my fingers used to swell up like sausages the same as you describe, and the joints got very sore - so I presume that's akin to psoriatic arthritis - but only my finger joints were affected.

I'm just over 3 months into my diet regime, and my hands have no swelling at all. The cuticles have started to re-attach to my nails, and the nails beds are also not raised and swollen so my nails now sit flush with my fingertips - before they were raised up with gunk growing between the nails and nail beds and also the brown looking oil spots under the nail. The nails themselves are still misshapen with lots of grooves and lumps but have started to grow out straight and normal looking from the base of the nail and the gunk and oil spots have now gone. I guess it will take 6 months or so until they completely grow out and start looking healthy again. Although I do have one nail that is totally unaffected and funnily enough that is one of the fingers that I hold my cigarettes in.

[jiml]

You're a great testament to diet Alan I admire that and thank you for keeping us updated it us refreshing to read of a natural method that works

Time for bed for me I have an early start tomorrow good night

[alan540]

Good night Jim. It is getting a bit late to be tapping away on a keyboard.

[Bill]

Hi Alan.

Maybe the lack of interest of your doctor reflects an appreciation of the success rate of your approach. With my experience of both I would not hesitate to take drugs, as DMF has given me a fantastic and sustained result.

Cheers,

Bill

[Caroline]

Hi Alan,

Really great to hear from your successes. It conforms with what my alternative doctor says, that following a diet is very important.
It is very reassuring that it must be possible to treat the disease with no medication at all. Personally I am not sure about the fungus being a cause, but it having an influence I see as certainly a possibility.

Yes, rheumatologists.... They are so inconsequential. Recently I had a discussion with one, she wanted to go the MTX way with a relative of mine. I told her, why not use DMF, there are good experiences with that and it is not toxic. No she said, she did not want to go with something not scientifically proven and there were no scientific results. And she said, they have bad side effects...
But..... It was only till later that I realised myself, bad side effects? How can she know, there is no scientific research to her knowledge but still she seems to know that, so it only can come from experiences. She apparently believes in bad experiences which is not scientific, but not in good experiences.

Another blow to my faith in rheumatologists.

[Bill]

We are all limited by experience, Caroline. I continue to get improvement in my spine in terms of reducing pain and increasing mobility, but it has been a walk into the wilderness for me. It is a wonderful place, but I can understand the reluctance to send someone on such an odyssey. People like apparent professionalism and security, which is why BI can put a few thousand dollars worth of industrial chemical into tablets, sell it for over 45 million dollars a year in Australia, and arguably dose people far less efficiently and safely than they could be.

Cheers,

Bill

[jiml]

While reading Alan's thread it got me thinking . I have little else to do in the middle of the night

I was thinking I'm glad that diet has had such an impact on Alan's psoriasis and in fact on his general well being, but again I get the thought in my mind .....this isn't a modern disease, it seems it hits all races and all lifestyles
So why does diet work ?i was looking earlier at an early thread on here about people as long ago as the 1700s and from around the world suffering see now these people had very different diets to modern processed food, yet they still fell foul to the disease ...

Just thought I would add that as its a scary thread to see

[Caroline]

Very interesting thread this is, and your reference Jim.

I think more theories as causes of the disease still hold, at least it is not specifically a modern disease but may have increased by modern factors.

E.g. the bacteria as cause, and stress related factors are still standing. Next to somehow the genetic side.