PSORIASIS / Today we are starting my multipart group of posts on psoriasis - starting today with the common triggers for psoriasis and what is happening in the body. I am also touching on eczema and how often untreated (or only treated conventionally) eczema eventually morphs into psoriasis or other autoimmune conditions. Tune in for the first step on the road to relief and remission from psoriasis.

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Psoriasis Triggers

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Psoriasis Triggers

Psoriasis is one of those autoimmune diseases that is often visible on the outside. If you are unfamiliar with the disease process it is a type of autoimmune disease that causes skin cells called keratinocytes to overproduce new skin cells. When this happens you get rough, scaly, dry patches on the skin which can pop up almost anywhere on the body. The process itself is an inflammatory process, like most autoimmune conditions where the immune system secretes proteins which confuse the keratinocytes into overproducing skin cells.

Common Causes of Psoriasis

Psoriasis at it’s root is often driven by or triggered by a bacterial infection and leaky gut. We are learning more and more about lab markers and indicators for this. Specifically, increased lipopolysaccharides - LPS for short. LPS is found in the cell wall of specific bacteria and is exacerbated by the leaky gut aspect of gluten and dairy primarily.

But don’t let this explanation fool you, each and every case as at minimum has a unique aspect to the root cause if not a complete unique root cause itself. This is just some commonality for you to understand the origins of psoriasis overall, autoimmune triggers, including those for psoriasis are always multifacted.

Some of those triggers commonly include:

1. Leaky gut - usually in combination with bacterial overgrowth, candida, a parasite or sometimes just insufficient good guys in the gut bacteria. This is typically caused by medications (antibiotics, NSAIDS, antacids), toxins, stress, food choices, vitamin D levels and of course there can be a whole host of other factors.

2. Food sensitivities - food triggers are very very often involved in psoriasis activation and exacerbation. Most common are gluten and dairy and I see a fair amount of eggs and sugar triggers here too.

3. Build up of Toxins caused by either recurring or ongoing exposure to toxins or poor detoxification pathways.

4. Stress - ongoing, chronic, or significant short term stress can trigger psoriasis via activating the immune system. This stress could be mental or physical, so it for example could be anxiety about surgery or the surgery itself that stresses the body. It can even be a mental self-rejection, where the body demonstrates the negative beliefs of the heart or mind similar to what I discussed in the heart episode (episode 041.

5. Specific nutrient deficiencies like vitamin d, zinc, copper, vitamin a, folate driven by a number of factors.

6. Hormonal fluctuations caused by stress or other life stages, adolescent puberty, menopause, etc.

Conventional Medical Treatments and Modern Medicine for Psoriasis

Anytime I talk about conventional or modern medicine - I feel it is important to repeat I feel like this that I do feel that modern medicine is a gift, for acute issues and to even triage some chronic issues,