Healing Psoriasis

Low Skin Carotenoid Levels Observed in Subjects with Psoriasis
In a cross-sectional study involving 44 subjects with psoriasis and 72 controls, results indicate that patients with psoriasis have significantly lower skin carotenoid levels, compared with controls. Additionally, after adjusting for confounders, significant association was observed between presence of psoriasis and lower levels of skin carotenoid levels. Thus, the authors of this study conclude, "Patients with psoriasis appear to have lower skin carotenoid counts than patients without psoriasis."
"Skin carotenoid levels in adult patients with psoriasis," Lima X, Kimball A, J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol, 2010, Nov 4; [Epub ahead of print]. (Address: Clinical Unit for Research Trials and Outcomes in Skin (CURTIS), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA).

Not unlike Howie Mandel and his OCD that can very well be treated with orthomolecular medicine, psoriasis can also be helped in a major way with natural approaches.
Unfortunately, mainstream media and mainstream medicine will want you to believe that the only help is no cure and the use of genetically engineered drugs. Often not disclosed about the recombinant-GMO drugs is their link to cancer and the fact that for the most part they suppress your immune system.
For a good two decades I have helped many people with psoriasis with natural treatment. Those who do want to be well always seem to achieve their goal. I do not offer a cookie-cutter treatment model, but I do adapt treatment with natural care to each client individually following a complete and in-depth case taking process.
There are however, certain treatments you can apply using therapeutic essential oils and a specific herbal blend I have found extremely effective with this condition.
Other lifestyle changes also need to be made.

Comedian and former Saturday Night Live cast member Jon Lovitz is known for making audiences laugh, but the discovery that he had psoriasis was no laughing matter. Read complete article

Selections from Natural Health News

Natural Health and Psoriasis

Sep 14, 2009

I'm listening to NPR and their story about psoriasis. Of course it is only medical, with the standard comment "there is no cure". Because so little is known in medicine about this situation, there isn't any approach other than drugs and

Arthritis drugs pose cancer risk

Aug 04, 2009

The FDA said it had "identified new safety information related to the occurrence of leukemia and new-onset psoriasis" that would also be included on the drugs' labeling. The FDA said it had reviewed 147 reports of leukemia in adults and ...

Overlooked Health Consequences

Jan 20, 2009

I'd say there were some other factors because my father had psoriasis. It isn't something I have but I have helped many people who lived with this condition, from mild to severe, to resolve their case. ...

Another FDA approved drug linked to hazards and death

Feb 20, 2009

The last sentence tell you that the government wants you to believe that psoriasis is not curable, but they want you to take a drug that does little to help yet may even cause death. I wonder why it is that some very simple testing for

Natural Health and Psoriasis

I'm listening to NPR and their story about psoriasis. Of course it is only medical, with the standard comment "there is no cure".

Because so little is known in medicine about this situation, there isn't any approach other than drugs and the new "biologicals" that severely suppress the immune system and can lead to cancer.

No mention is made of very helpful natural approaches to correcting this concern, including evaluation of food allergy, especially wheat gluten and gliaden.

Of course there is the psych referral...under the guise of "mind-body medicine" because as you know, everyone with a chronic health problem is depressed, and there are drugs for that.

Stories like this make me think about the high number of people I have helped over the years with psoriasis. In those who wanted to be fully well, the condition cleared.

Nature surely does a good job if we just take the time to listen.

See also

Another FDA approved drug linked to hazards and death

UPDATE: 9 April - Raptiva is withdrawn from the U.S. market
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The last sentence tell you that the government wants you to believe that psoriasis is not curable, but they want you to take a drug that does little to help yet may even cause death.

I wonder why it is that some very simple testing for food allergy, especially wheat, and other natural treatments do an excellent job of helping people?

FDA: Psoriasis drug could cause deadly brain infection

NEW:European Medicines Agency discourages new Raptiva prescriptions

Raptiva's product labeling was revised in October to highlight risks

Raptiva is an injection for adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis

The drug suppresses T-cells, which makes it decrease immune system function

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The government is warning that taking the psoriasis drug Raptiva could result in serious brain infection and even death.

The Food and Drug Administration cited three confirmed cases, and a possible fourth, of people diagnosed with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) after being treated with Raptiva.

"Three of those patients have died," the FDA said in a public health advisory. "All four patients were treated with the drug for more than three years."

None was receiving other treatments that suppress the immune system.

Raptiva's product labeling was revised in October to highlight a boxed warning about the risks of life-threatening infections, including PML.

"At that time, the FDA directed Genentech, the manufacturer, to develop a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) to include a medication guide to educate patients about the drug's risks," the FDA's advisory says.

In the advisory, issued Thursday, the FDA highlighted the confirmed cases and promised to "take appropriate steps" to ensure that Raptiva's risks do not outweigh its benefits.

The FDA also said it will ensure that patients "are clearly informed of the signs and symptoms of PML" and that health care professionals "carefully monitor patients for the possible development of PML."

Overseas, the European Medicines Agency has gone further, recommending that no new prescriptions for Raptiva be issued and that patients taking the drug talk to their doctors about an alternative.

On Thursday it asked the European Commission to make that recommendation legally binding.

The group's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use determined "that the benefits of Raptiva no longer outweigh its risks, because of safety concerns, including the occurrence of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in patients taking the medicine."

It said patients who have been treated with the drug should be "closely monitored for neurological symptoms and symptoms of infection."

"Patients who are currently taking Raptiva should not stop treatment abruptly, but should make an appointment with their doctor to discuss the most appropriate replacement treatment," the agency said.

Raptiva, a once-weekly injection for adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, works by suppressing T-cells -- cells that help fight infection -- in the immune system. Those cells cause the skin inflammation associated with psoriasis.

By suppressing T-cells, Raptiva "decreases the function of the immune system, which increases a patient's susceptibility to infections," the FDA said.

The National Institutes of Health says the prognosis for PML "remains grim; the disease usually lasts for months and 80 percent die within the first six months, although spontaneous improvement has been reported. Those who survive PML can be left with severe neurological disabilities."

Around 6 million to 7 million Americans have psoriasis, which is incurable, the NIH says.