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had a question from someone that wanted to know  is psoriasis contagious well it’s a big fat no  

it’s not contagious psoriasis is an autoimmune  disease it’s an immune problem and there’s  

red scaly plaques on the skin and what’s  happening is there’s certain parts of the skin  

that is replacing itself too fast within three  days when it should be replacing itself within  

like 28 days so there’s a a lot of problems on  the skin and it could be some itchiness involved  

now to figure out what psoriasis is we  need clues so here are some of the triggers  

taking antibiotics can trigger this condition  

stress can trigger it having an infection  especially strep or candida omega-6 fatty acids  

which are certain unsaturated fatty acids that  are inflammatory create inflammation of the gut  

statins which is interesting what do statins do  they block cholesterol so we’ll come back to that  

and in the winter there’s a worsening of  psoriasis i wonder why that is well if we  

take a look at some other clues steroids do help  and it’s part of a treatment that a lot of doctors  

recommend for psoriasis problem is there’s side  effects right vitamin d creams do help and so does  

uv light okay what does uv like do well first of  all it’s a therapy directly in the skin but also  

certain uv frequencies can increase vitamin d  in the body if you do a deep dive with psoriasis  

they’ve isolated part of your immune system being  a problem there’s an excessive amount of the t  

helper cell 17 going on so it’s an overactive  t helper 17 cell which is producing too much of  

this pro-inflammatory cytokine so basically  we have this over active immune cell that’s  

creating this inflammation and when this cell is  too high it can trigger an autoimmune condition  

where your body starts to attack itself and so  i did a real huge search on what could suppress  

this cell what could suppress this  cytokine and guess what came up vitamin d  

now what does vitamin d have to do with  that it helps modulate or calm and control  

an overactive immune system so vitamin d is very  very important in helping to minimize these side  

effects from autoimmune conditions you’d have to  take a bit more than usual like 30 to 40 000 units  

per day now the next recommendation is bile salts  bile salts can increase the vitamin d receptors  

so if there’s some type of problem where you  can’t absorb vitamin d bile salts can actually  

help you absorb it now tutca is a very specific  type of bile salt because there’s several this  

is another recommendation in addition to regular  bile salts i would take both of those and i would  

take them on an empty stomach i would take in the  morning take one and then in the afternoon take  

maybe another one and maybe take one with meals  taking probiotics have been shown to decrease  

the symptoms of psoriasis as well simply because  the dysfunction originates in your gut usually  

from an antibiotic or infection or something  you’re consuming that might have triggered it  

and then another recommendation be cod liver oil  cod liver oil is very high in vitamin d vitamin a and  

omega-3 fatty acids which are anti-inflammatory  that counters the omega-6 fatty acids  

and because there’s a gut problem which means  there’s a permeability problem it could be a leaky  

gut you may want to try carnivore for a while  just because that might decrease the inflammation  

in your gut now a couple last things i want to  mention of course it’s worse in the winter because  

there’s not a lot of sun so there’s going to  be less vitamin d people with psoriasis need  

to be taking a very good amount of vitamin d of  course also take vitamin k2 with it now what’s the  

relationship between statins and vitamin d well  take a while guess what vitamin d is made from  

cholesterol in your skin so the uv light hits the  skin it turns the cholesterol into a pre-vitamin d  

which is then converted into an active  form of vitamin d through the kidney  

and the liver so taking statins can decrease your  overall vitamin d levels all right there you have  

it and if you want additional information  on psoriasis i did another video on it  

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