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Wed-16-11-2011, 07:07 AM
Hi Suzy,
Well, fumarates have in fact been well researched, and reported as working against psoriasis.
You may search on google for "schweckendieck fumarate", as a German doctor called schweckendieck used it already 50 years ago. He had psoriasis himself.
A direct link to an article is this one: nature.com/jid/journal/v127/n4/full/5700686a.html
The active thing in it is DMF, dymethylfumarate, not in terms of a chemist as I am no chemist, DMF adds to the energy cycle of the cells. And the result is that they will work better again, and... Indeed it does. Good results have been achieved. It also works for arthretic psoriatica, as in fact this is the same disease. I myself have therefore come to the conclusion that psoriasis is no skin disease, but an immune disease, so should be differently treated than a skin disease.
Indeed, as you say, the Pharm companies have less to earn here as the substance cannot be patented. In fact everybody make fumarates by himself in his metabolism. So I can imagine that there is no real trigger for the pharm companies to research it.
Caroline
Well, fumarates have in fact been well researched, and reported as working against psoriasis.
You may search on google for "schweckendieck fumarate", as a German doctor called schweckendieck used it already 50 years ago. He had psoriasis himself.
A direct link to an article is this one: nature.com/jid/journal/v127/n4/full/5700686a.html
The active thing in it is DMF, dymethylfumarate, not in terms of a chemist as I am no chemist, DMF adds to the energy cycle of the cells. And the result is that they will work better again, and... Indeed it does. Good results have been achieved. It also works for arthretic psoriatica, as in fact this is the same disease. I myself have therefore come to the conclusion that psoriasis is no skin disease, but an immune disease, so should be differently treated than a skin disease.
Indeed, as you say, the Pharm companies have less to earn here as the substance cannot be patented. In fact everybody make fumarates by himself in his metabolism. So I can imagine that there is no real trigger for the pharm companies to research it.
Caroline