Psoriasis'Eskimos don't get psoriasis because of their mainly fish diet'. Affecting about 2 percent of people in the US and Northern Europe, psoriasis is a chronic and distressing skin disease. An insight into the condition can be dawn from a social study of Australian Aboriginals who only developed psoriasis when they moved to the city. Despite this knowledge, conventional treatment ranges from paraffin and steroid creams to immunosuppressant drugs and powerful antibiotics, all with a litany of terrible side effects. The likeliest cause of psoriasis, as with most other skin conditions, is malnutrition and malabsorption. Malabsorption of essential nutrients such as amino acids, vitamins, minerals especially zinc and essential fatty acids especially the Omega 3 fish oil with EPA and DHA, results from an inflammatory reaction of the lining of the gut by allergy/intolerance to foods, pathogenic organisms (bacteria, viruses, fungus/Candida and parasites), toxins such as metals (cadmium, arsenic, lead, mercury etc) and chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, preservatives etc) which poison enzyme systems that deal with everything from digestion, binding with and removal of waste products from the body, to repair of the damaged skin of psoriasis which quickly becomes infected with bacteria and fungus, naturally ever-present on the skin.
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