This is a YouTube video titled "Treating Psoriasis" containing a multi-speaker conversation recorded on October 20, 2020. The discussion features Ask AI Mark and other speakers exploring functional medicine approaches to treating psoriasis, focusing on factors like stress, diet, and autoimmune paleo diet strategies.
So now we've got the data, we're looking at their gut, we're looking at food, we're looking at vitamin D, we're looking at metals, maybe look at other factors. What do we do for these patients?
How do we start to treat these patients? What is the functional medicine approach? One of the key things I always ask my patients also is the component of stress. Not that stress causes psoriasis or stress causes autoimmunity, but stress affects the immune system. It affects everything else. Exactly, yeah, exactly. So I always get a handle on how much stress are you having in your life and also how those are sleep. Those two things, if you're not getting good sleep and if you're under stress, that's like throwing gasoline on a fire. And you're not gonna fix the issue until you address a good circadian rhythm and you also address a person's stress and lifestyle. Those are key things too, because that's not gonna cure your autoimmune condition. But I can't tell you the number of times that I've had a patient who had an autoimmune condition that was triggered by a very stressful event, a divorce, loss of a job, loss of a child, you name it.
Stress alone can cause leaky gut. Absolutely, yes.
Even in healthy people. Exactly, absolutely, yes. So as you said, you address diet and the low hanging fruit are things like gluten, dairy, sugar.
What about grains? Dude, people have autoimmune.
Autoimmune paleo diet. Yeah, the autoimmune paleo diet for people who have significant autoimmune conditions, the AIP diet I think is probably the go-to. What is that? That's where you eliminate gluten, sugar, grains, dairy, and beans. Beans. Yeah, well, and lectins. Lectins are another thing that potentially can play a role in some individuals causing leaky gut. And nuts and seeds and eggs even are taken out.
So, if you're really in an extreme situation, the idea isn't to be extremely restricted your whole life, but to remove all the things that are potentially a trigger for a short time, see what happens. If your skin clears up, then you can start adding things back. Exactly. Like the nuts, add the eggs, add.
The nightshades, add all those things and see what happens.
