06/11/2025
Supporting your Systems to Clear Psoriasis
Thank you for your inquiry about the Nutrition for Wellness – Psoriasis Protocol. In this document I have included early sections of the protocol document so you can get a feel for what we do and what it’s based on. Skip through whatever you like. I’m always available to talk.
Our Objective:
Please don’t let the length of this course deter you. What you need to learn isn’t very long. I wanted to include the information needed, so that you can use this to really understand nutritional supplementation. This will allow you to talk to your doctor from a position of knowledge, which may be important if your doctor is not well versed in the importance of the therapeutic use of nutritional supplementation.
I began my nutrition journey 35 years ago. I was amazed at what I learned about vitamin C and astonished that the conventional medical community was, and remains, unaware of, or at the least uninterested in, the power of therapeutic nutrition. I launched my website about vitamin C, Cforyourself.com, in 1997. The Britannica site selected cforyourself on their “Best of the Web” group during that time.
Over 30 years have passed without a significant improvement in the general understanding of the value of nutritional supplementation (OK, I’m doing the best I can). That’s why I have partnered with a physician, Dr. Blumenthal, whom I have known for 20 years and who has 30+ years in practice, to develop courses and work one-on-one with people while helping them work with their doctors to understand how nutrition can help dramatically with many conditions.
Introduction:
There are certain supplements taken in therapeutic doses that can help you stay healthy and relieve many diseases and conditions, and HARDLY ANYONE KNOWS!
Supplementing our diet with the proper nutrients in the proper amounts should be our first priority to promote optimum health and the first line of defense against illness.
Proper nutritional supplementation is the best, safest, first-choice solution to relieve your psoriasis symptoms at the root cause.
Our protocol has seven sections including 11 supplements. All of these have been shown to reduce psoriasis symptoms. Several have been shown to eliminate those symptoms. Add to that the safety profile of nutritional supplements and the overall benefit of therapeutic doses of these supplements, and you have your best, first choice to eliminate your symptoms and improve your overall health.
Nutrition and Psoriasis:
Many of the posts on the psoriasis Facebook groups are discussions about what to eat and what not to eat in an attempt to improve, or at least minimize, the horrible symptoms of psoriasis. Therapeutic nutrition is my main focus, but looking at the bigger picture, I’d like to discuss some of the more general topics of diet and health.
Our nutritional needs evolved largely during the hunter-gatherer period of 10,000+ years ago. The nutrients we relied on back then were largely "gathered" with as much "hunting" as we could throw a stone at. Our DNA hasn't changed much since then, but our diets, especially in the industrialized world, have changed dramatically since then, to say the least. My opinion, for what it's worth, is that, in general, again, we should eat whole foods and stay away from junk. I believe it was Carlton Fredericks who said that when you go to the grocery store, you should buy the foods around the perimeter, not the stuff in boxes in the aisles.
Sugar is a good example of diet gone wrong. I read that the reason we all like sweetness is so we would eat ripe fruit which is more nutrient dense. My focus has been on what important nutrients our modern diet is lacking. I believe this is a largely overlooked and critical aspect of maintaining good health.
Obviously, we need to understand what foods are stressing our system and try to avoid them. At the same time, your body's needs are generally the same as they were thousands of years ago, so keep this in mind. I believe that supplementing our diet with the proper nutrients in the proper amounts should be our first priority to promote optimum health and the first line of defense against illness. People with psoriasis have a special need due to the autoimmune basis of psoriasis.
The Challenges of Treating Psoriasis
Understanding a disease well enough to result in a cure is a difficult endeavor, and we have the medical scientific community to thank for their work finding cures and saving lives while not killing most of us in the process.
Autoimmune diseases, like psoriasis, are particularly difficult to treat due to our incredibly complex human biology. The stories and pictures that people with psoriasis post on the psoriasis Facebook groups are heart-wrenching. Add to that the inability of the medical profession to help in any meaningful way, and sufferers are in an awful situation. There are other options. The WebMD articles “What is a Functional Medicine Doctor”5 and “Naturopathic Medicine: What You Need to Know” (Contributors)6 are worth considering since they both tend to be open to more holistic approaches than MDs.
That’s why I decided to change my direction, partner with a doctor, and provide a comprehensive method to help people clear their psoriasis. Regarding your psoriasis, I think you have come to the right place with this course and our support.
If you have the time and interest, “Dietary Intervention and Supplements in the Management of Psoriasis: Current Perspectives”7 is a meta-analysis of 34 studies that gives a comprehensive assessment of diet and supplements. Interestingly, they say in the abstract “Supplements in general do not show strong evidence of benefit, though more studies are required” (Chung et al.)7. I interpret that to mean that therapeutic dosages were, at least generally, not used or used in inadequate doses in some or maybe all the 34 studies.
Our group at Nutrition for Wellness looks forward to helping you on a new, better path that will clear, or at least minimize, your symptoms while improving your general state of wellness. The protocol document will provide you the scientific evidence, including 65 citations of studies, of the supplementation we recommend.
We look forward to talking to you about the protocol and our support of it…and you.
