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Offline steelem

really enjoyed this & how true
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Offline Jay

Re: really enjoyed this & how true
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2012, 07:44:44 PM »
That's really good.

I don't think I have a problem with meat however, as long as it's been properly reared. I eat my own grass-fed lamb, for example, and I'm fine with that. I eat my friend's beef as I know he hasn't pumped it full of antibiotics and growth hormone. My goats' unpastuerised milk is fine, as are my free-range cockerels. Most people would be able to get this quality of food from a farmers' market. As far as I can see it's not the meat per se for most people but the rubbish that goes into producing it  >:(

The things I need to get off are sugar and alcohol. I consume them when I'm stressed, which is when I get psoriasis flares and off the whole thing goes  ::)

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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2012, 10:43:51 PM »
Hell yes.  This is one very fine presentation.  Very balanced.  What I have to say is that my own researches parallel what is presented here very closely.  I particularly endorse the idea of a system wide approach to psoriasis.  I firmly believe there is no one "magic bullet" for psoriasis.  I think that with psoriasis, it is the immune system's way of saying, "Hey!  We gots a problem here!"  Get the immune system back into balance, get the over all body healthy and most of the rest will take care of itself. 

With all the variances in individuals, that means what works for one might not work for another.  The trick then is to find what does work for one and pursue that avenue.  Trying to find one medicine or one form of treatment, a one size fits all solution, simply is not going to happen.  People are too much different inside.  Instead go for the idea that to make one's self overall healthier, the idea that something(s) has thrown the immune system out of balance, find out what and correct it, that is the approach I firmly believe in.

Pharmaceutical companies and doctors and to some extent medical schools are all pushing that it has to something "man-made" to be a true medicine and thus only some form of man-made something can ever cure anything.  They overlook that most of the medical procedures are a sort of delaying action until the immune system can kick in and do the actual curing.  For the most part it is the immune system that cures people of a particular disease, not the medicine they take.  The medicine stave off the worst of symptom, but it is the body that cures itself for the most part.  Sure, there are exceptions, but this remains true for the most part.

Simplest way to put it is: heal yourself from the inside out by getting healthy.

Sounds easy.  It is not.  You have to take control of what you are doing over all, monitor and change what needs changed.  No one is going to do it for you, you have to do it for yourself.  That is toughest of all.

But the results are worth it.
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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2012, 02:23:01 AM »
Great piece, thank you for posting this. Good to see doctors recognizing diet has a role to play with psoriasis.  :)
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« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2012, 12:03:44 PM »
Very interesting article!

Offline steelem

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« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2012, 02:23:11 PM »
agree totally spotted owl - im a firm believer that its the ones who are willing to change will be the ones that succeed - dont we all love the biggest loser - why beacause the ones that fail will be the ones who have to live with that obesity but the ones who succeed will be the ones with that new slim life.. and will have less of a chance with disease!!..

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« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2012, 12:27:51 PM »
Thanks for posting this. I'm about a month into a healthier eating/green smoothie plan and needed this boost to keep my motivation up. I would love to just eat a big chocolate cake right now and ignore the fact that I have psoriasis but the massive blob on my forehead is a constant reminder that it's time I did something to calm my skin down.

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« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2012, 02:34:04 PM »
This is an excellent article...probably the motivation I needed to start a major diet change. I'll start tomorrow !