Cured Psoriasis with a raw food diet?

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Permalink Reply by David of Bristol on August 18, 2008 at 4:40am

I've had psoriasis for life and badly for around 3 years, and it went haywire 18 months ago when I got very ill.

I've read everything about psoriasis and believe it's nothing to do with 'the skin' but is more about the immune system being either overactive/underactive or stressed. I also suspect it's very much tied to the gut as a dodgy gut seems to effect severity. Psoriais severity can fluctuate within 48 hours. As it seems to get bad after antibiotics a yeast connection could be present - some research has looked at fungal interactions or causes.

Psoriasis is INCREDIBLY stubborn and, aside from perhaps UVB treatment, all mainstream treatments are either almost useless or harmful. I've done 'em all and most P sufferers who take the doctor route still have, er, psoriasis. So it's pointless.

So what has raw (months months very high raw, lowish fruit, as much greens as possible) doen for me. Quite a lot! Nothing much at first but then the itching and unprovoked bleeding (present when the P is raging) just weren't present so often. Then, perhaps three months in, the skin looked more 'pink' rather than raging red and the flakey skin more powdery, rather than crusty. I started to use coconut oil as a moisturiser and a teaspoon in smoothies (after hearing that could help) and that, I think, made some further improvement.

Improved seems to have reached a certain level now but when I think back to when I was scrubbing blood out of shirts every other day sixth months ago, I salute raw and have a certain confidence the P will get much, much better yet.

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Permalink Reply by April on August 18, 2008 at 7:31am

Thanks for replying. I will pass this information onto my friend!

April

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