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by WalterSear
2532 days ago
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Is Psoriasis a bowel disease? Successful treatment
with bile acids and bioflavonoids suggests it is. https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.clindermatol.2018.03.011 Fwiw: The article actually suggests that Psoriasis, (and IMHO, by extension, potentially autoimmune disease in general), are associated with liver dysfunction, driven by bowel disease. |
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The research and resulting protocol is inspired by an earlier Hungarian study in 2003 [1] that was able to seemingly cure psoriasis in 79% of its 500 test subjects. We don't know for sure; but 2 years later, 58% were still in complete remission. To be clear, that's a completely unheard-of result in psoriasis research.
All current, "mainstream" forms of treatment for psoriasis only treat the symptoms, not the cause. Even the newest, most advanced immune-suppressing biologics are merely stupid off buttons for the signaling misfiring that causes the superficial symptoms; meanwhile, psoriasis sufferers have much-higher-than-average incidences of cancer, liver disease, heart disease, IBD and so on. Treatments only keep the skin/joint symptoms at bay, and require the patient to continue taking the drugs, which tend to stop working after a while.
Pretty excited about this direction in psoriasis research.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092846800...