an interesting article on diet and psoriasis..

[Lazza]

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I think it represents a generally favorable and balanced view of the potential impact of diet upon psoriasis.


_Lazza

[LittlePinkPuss]

My God! Knock me down with a feather! Wonders will never cease! Well they certainly kept that one quite and hidden away in the archives. 

[Charlotte_S]

I just find it bizarre that there are no big clinical trials for this!  I do understand why it wouldn't be the most popular option, as it wouldn't really net any big profits but surely there must be some desire to research this further.

Also has anyone read Dr Floyd Chilton's book? 

Charlotte

[Lazza]

Yes, I've read Dr. Chilton's book.  It's quite good, I recommend it. 


_Lazza

[Vladex]

What's so interesting or new about it ?
We have had a bunch of diet gurus push their agenda's and all it serves is confuse people more and make them lazy by thinking they can just eat their way to health or whatever they want. Diets don't cause nor improve any diseases and certainly not chronic diseases unless there is some great deficiancy which is rare even in the worst diet or no diet at all . What they do is make you stronger or weaker to face the real issues of the disease or any biological process. Millions of people eat junk food diet and don't have P or vice versa and that alone should prove to you that there is more it than that . Looking at vegeterian diet or low carb diet or anything in between can only relieve or worsen the symptoms but it doesn't deal with the underlying issues here.

[Panch]

Bought a copy of Dr Pagano's book may be 10 years back and followed some of his diet recommendations. Very hard to do everything. There was some improvement on my P. I still avoid Gluten rich products which definitely causes flare up for me.

[Lazza]

What's so interesting or new about it ?
We have had a bunch of diet gurus push their agenda's and all it serves is confuse people more and make them lazy by thinking they can just eat their way to health or whatever they want. Diets don't cause nor improve any diseases and certainly not chronic diseases unless there is some great deficiancy which is rare even in the worst diet or no diet at all . What they do is make you stronger or weaker to face the real issues of the disease or any biological process. Millions of people eat junk food diet and don't have P or vice versa and that alone should prove to you that there is more it than that . Looking at vegeterian diet or low carb diet or anything in between can only relieve or worsen the symptoms but it doesn't deal with the underlying issues here.

Sorry you didn't find the article of value.  And what you've written is contrary to my belief and experience; I am able to control my psoriasis through diet.


_Lazza

[NYGuy11]

Why do people continue to push that diet does not help psoriasis?  I have seen countless people here and NPF that diet cleared them.  I have also seen that in the Psoriasis Advance.

Look, diet has not cleared my psoriasis to date, but that does not mean diet does not help others.  What's the point of hijacking other people's threads to push your own views?

Thanks for posting the article Lazza.  It's up to each individual person to test to see whether diet is a factor for them.

[wexfordfox]

I believe the point is the commonly held belief that diet won't cure your psoriases - it just helps you control it. The control may be so good that you appear to others to be cured but you still have psoriasis.

This seems a slightly pessimistic/closed outlook since (to my mind) no one seems to understand psoriasis so it's a bit short-sighted to rule anything out especially when there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that diet benefits many of us.

It has worked well for me, Lazza and a bunch of others so I would encourage everyone to give it a go at least once. Side-effects are better health as opposed to a dodgy liver etc. from e.g. biologics (although they work for many too).

[Charlotte_S]

Diet may not be the answer for everyone - and I can say hand on heart that it's not been an easy road for me. I've had some ups and downs with it but I'm not expecting diet to be a 'cure'.  I know that P has a genetic element (I'm not the only one in my family) for me and as such is probably an incurable condition (much like my kidney problems) but there are things I can do to manage the condition.

If I were given the choice between a total cure and managing P I'd obviously go for the total cure.  However as a cure is not on the table it would be either stupid or insane to refuse to attempt to manage the condition in the meantime. 

So articles like the one Lazza linked to are interesting because they give us clues on how to manage the P.  And if the diet helps to reverse other damage or makes me less at risk for a heart attack or cancer or whatever well that's a lovely bonus.