Psoriasis Disease

Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a chronic disease of your immune system that causes cells to build up on the surface of your skin, leading to thick, red, scaly patches that can be very itchy and sometimes painful.

Although psoriasis appears as a skin condition, it is actually an autoimmune disease. Part of the reaction occurs when a type of white blood cell called a T cell mistakenly attacks healthy skin cells.

These overactive T cells then trigger other immune responses that collectively speed up the growth cycle of skin cells, causing them to move to the outermost layer of your skin in a matter of days rather than weeks.

Because the dead skin cannot be removed quickly enough, it builds up into the thick patches characteristic of psoriasis.

Your skin may become so inflamed that it cracks and bleeds. Some people also develop psoriatic arthritis, which can cause debilitating joint damage.

People with psoriasis are also at an increased risk of numerous other chronic diseases, including eye conditions, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. And then there are the psychological repercussions such as suffering from depression, low self-esteem, social isolation and problems at work.

Vitamin D Is Crucial for Autoimmune Diseases, Including Psoriasis. Vitamin D is a potent immune modulator, making it very important for the prevention of autoimmune diseases.

Vitamin D is thought to effect psoriasis on multiple levels, including helping to regulate keratinocyte (skin cell) growth and differentiation as well as influence the immune functions of T lymphocytes and other cells. Vitamin D also inhibits cytotoxic T cells and natural killer cell activity, potentially helping to regulate skin cell growth.

Not only are vitamin D derivatives commonly used as a topical treatment for psoriasis, but phototherapy is also a preferred type of treatment. UVA rays are the type associated with skin damage, while UVB light causes your skin to produce vitamin D.

Typically, the best psoriasis treatment is exposure to sunlight to optimize your vitamin D levels. Sunlight exposure works, in part, because UV rays in sunlight and certain types of artificial light kill off the activated T cells in your skin.

This slows down cell turnover and reduces the scaling and inflammation of your skin. People with psoriasis, who are often vitamin D deficient, have an increased risk of chronic diseases like heart disease and metabolic syndrome.

So far, scientists have identified nearly 3,000 genes that are influenced by vitamin D status, and a robust and growing body of research clearly shows that vitamin D is critical for optimal health and disease prevention.

Have You Checked Your Vitamin D Level Lately?

While the optimal level for general health lies between 50-70 ng/ml, when treating chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and autoimmune (i.e. psoriasis) and/or neurological diseases, your level should ideally be 70-100 ng/ml.

The ideal method to optimize your vitamin D levels is through sensible UVB exposure. You can also use an oral supplement of vitamin D3, not synthetic D2, and take vitamin K2 and magnesium in conjunction with it.

Vitamin D is fat-soluble, so taking some form of healthy fat with it will also help optimize absorption. The biological role of vitamin K2 is to help move calcium into the proper areas in your body, and without sufficient amounts, calcium may build up in areas such as your arteries and soft tissues.

This can cause calcification that can lead to hardening of your arteries—a side effect previously thought to be caused by vitamin D toxicity. We now know that inappropriate calcification is actually due more to lack of K2 than simply too much vitamin D.

Magnesium is also important, both for the proper function of calcium, and for the activity of vitamin D as it converts vitamin D into its active form. Magnesium also activates enzyme activity that helps your body use the vitamin D.

All enzymes that metabolize vitamin D require magnesium to work. As with vitamin D and K2, magnesium deficiency is also common, and if you’re lacking in magnesium and take supplemental calcium, you may exacerbate the situation.

Vitamin A, zinc, and boron are other important cofactors that interact with vitamin D. When taking supplements, it can be easy to create lopsided ratios, so getting these nutrients from an organic whole food diet and sensible sun exposure is generally your best bet. Dietary sources of magnesium include sea vegetables, such as kelp, dulse, and nori.

Vegetables can also be a good source. Magnesium citrate and magnesium threonate are among the best supplements.

Vitamin-D3 is a neuro-steroid that a brain produces directly from sunlight. Every major area in your brain contains vit-D receptors, incl. regions responsible for memory and mood. These receptors control the expression of over 900 different genes related to brain health.

Optimal D3 levels protect against depression/dementia, and aging. It will steal D3 from other tissues when levels run low. Low vit-D levels increase risk of cognitive decline by 300%. The mental causes are anxiety, fear, and remnants of unpleasant experiences.

Vit-D is the ultimate protector against neuro-degeneration. Hi-dosis vit-D are used to fight depression. Start with 5K-7K IU’s/day plus vit-K2 for optimal absorption.

Applying glycerin can interrupt this abnormal process of communication between cells, by now allowing the cells to reach full maturation before shedding.

Glycerin attracts water. When glycerin or glycerol is applied to the skin, it seals in moisture that might otherwise escape.

Thus, glycerin helps maintain the skin’s water balance on an intercellular level. The fact that glycerin can have a therapeutic effect on wounds and other skin diseases also contributes to the skin looking healthier and smoother.

Glycerin is an emollient, making the skin not only moist, but soft and supple to the touch.

Another means of interrupting this abnormal process of cell communication is the use of blue LCD light.

Shea butter, a fat extracted from the nut of the African shea tree, is a triglyceride derived mainly from stearic and oleic acid, that will also reduce various forms of psoriasis.

Bible OT:

Job 2:7 So Satan afflicted Job with painful sores and boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

Job 7:5 "My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering".