Healing Psoriasis: The Natural Alternative by John O. A. Pagano DC
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Book Reviews of Healing Psoriasis: The Natural Alternative
Book Review: The book that really helps
Summary: 5 Stars
This book helped me to be healed from my psoriasis.
I had it on my leg and it was horrible.
Book Review: Excellent book
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book to be very informative and useful. Is is a must for Psoriasis patients.Book Review: Healing Psoriasis: The Natural Alernative
Summary: 5 Stars
Book Review: attack of the killer tomatoes (and potatoes and eggplant, and peppers, and tobacco, and a few more)
Summary: 4 Stars
If you have psoriasis stop eating nightshades now! Doing that one thing has made my psoriasis go from red, itchy, scaly, painful, spreading, to flat and smooth and receding. Recently I went to a Panera resturant and had a bread bowl with brocolli chedddar soup, absolutely delicious. A day later my psoriasis was back to its' old self and when I checked their website to see the ingredients there were cayenne and paprika proving my nightshade allergy. Avoiding nightshades is a big pain in the butt, but slack off and your psoriasis will remind you. Also certain red food dyes (red #40, etc. . .) are made from peppers, so you have to avoid them also. Tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, tobacco, eggplant. Potato starch is in everything! Tomatoes are in everything, paprika is in everything. And the few things that don't have one of the above have food starch or spices or natural flavorings so you don't know if they have it or not. I did just find a mayonaise that has no paprika Trader Joe's organic.
The book itself is confusing and offer a thousand possibilities of why you might have psoriasis. However, it's defintely got some things right and I don't know of a better book on the subject (because psoriasis research leads to drug companies offering us drugs with side effects including death and cancer). It's nearly impossible to do everything it says, and even doing as much as you can will be hard, but food allergies of all kinds are hard. I've lived with psoriasis for 18 years (since I was 12) and that has been hard. So as tough as it is avoiding certain foods, it's easier than having psoriasis. Mine hasn't cleared yet, but I'm certain that it will eventually. Serious improvement, though. More than I've seen with anything else.
If nothing else wean yourself onto the diet slowly. If you're like me, you've had it for years, so if it takes you another couple years to clear, at least it's not getting worse. The book is worth buying. Give it a try. Leaving behind all those foods you love will be unpleasant, but when you see clearing and make a mistake and see the damned psorasis start coming back you'll realize just how much you love not having psorasis and you'll sacrfice those foods, not gladly, but you'll do it.
Update: November 2009
I am still using a few of the tips in this book to control my psoriasis and it's the best it has ever been since I got it. A note about the book is that what it is is a bunch of ideas of what could be causing your psoriasis. If you try to do everything it says you'll go insane. I suggest reading it over then picking one or two things to start with and trying them. Always remember that the healing process takes time.
You really do have to stick with it. I've been avoiding nightshades since before I left the first part of this reveiw, almost a year now. It's really hard to do, especially if you eat out. I also did a liver cleanse which was truly awful but worthwhile I think. I am allergic to nightshades and maybe peanuts and these things were building up in my body for the entire 30 years of my life. The cleanse made my posriasis much worse for about a month while the toxins released into my body from my dirty liver. I used milk thistle and apple juice. Very effective. Read about milk thistle on wikipedia if you want to learn more. I did it for 2 weeks, but next time I'd stick to a week at most.
If I cheat on my diet my psoriasis tells me about it. I have not had full clearing, but it is smooth to the touch (unless I get into the cayenne or paprika which is in everything), it's not red, not scaly, rarely itchy.
Book Review: Excellent Information, some disagreements with nutrition
Summary: 4 Stars
This book provides a wealth of information for the patient new to psoriasis. With the lack of help most conventional doctors give you when they prescribe topical steroids, one needs a book like this to provide alternative theories and supportive advice. Well written for the non-medical reader, and upon cleansing, psoriasis is certainly improving.
However, there are some tiny disagreements I have in terms of internal cleansing in general, that this author seems be pretty main stream on. These include: skim milk products, coffee and sugar. In other cleanse books I've read (See Ann Louis Gittleman for great information on cleansing environmental toxins), uncultured dairy, caffeine and sugar are to be avoided completely. Pagano hesitates to make this clear amongst all of the other dietary restrictions (maybe so he doesn't scare anyone away from trying the cleanse). Perhaps they do not inflame psoriasis, but they certainly don't help along the digestive or filtration process. I'm not a nutritionist, but this is one issue I had with "healing psoriasis". Otherwise, a recommendation.