Controlling psoriasis through diet - the essentials

D: OK, so within a month at least you'll know you're on the right track. What are the things in your treatment program that people absolutely must do to get better and what are some of the things they can safely skip if they're uncomfortable with them and if they skip those parts of the program, how does it affect the results?

Parts that I think are essential is an anti-inflammatory plant-based diet and foods that are minimally or not processed whatsoever. There's no mystery to this. This is the way humans have eaten throughout the entirety of human history until the last sixty to eighty years when all of a sudden we had refrigerators and freezers and trucks coming from across the country to bring us meat and food science technology laboratories. Now that we have refrigerators and freezers, only now can people eat meat two to three times a day.

Before, throughout the entirety of human history, people weren't killing a cow or a chicken or goat for every single meal. And also because they were cooking over fires - they didn't have a stove, they didn't have an oven that means they couldn't just set a temperature. You can imagine if they had to grow their grain and they had to grind it and then they had to bake it to make into breads or pasta or crackers or cereal, you can imagine they had very little of that stuff in their diet.

Their diet came from what they grew in their back yard and the vast majority of it was plants because it was too expensive to kill an animal for every single meal. It came from what they grew in their back yard or what they got at farmer's market. But now within the last sixty to eighty years, we have genetically-engineered foods. 70% of the American food supply is genetically engineered and there were never any clinical research trials done to tell us what the potential outcome of that is.

Meat and dairy and eggs are given supplemental hormones, supplemental antibiotics and fed genetically-engineered grains that they're not even designed to eat in the first place. To the degree that we eat a plant-based diet that comes straight from nature meaning this is nothing more than the way humans were eating in the entirety of history until the last hundred years that this exerts its own anti-inflammatory effect.

This is the way that people in third world countries that are living longer than Americans are still eating. The United States now ranks forty-second in the world for longevity and we've been outpaced by some third world countries where people never go to a doctor a single time. They may never go to a dentist their entire lives. But they're living longer than we are. But they're also eating what they grow in their back yard and what they get from farmer's market. And they don't have televisions or video games or computers to sit in front of all day.

So it's lifestyle. When we just go back to the lifestyle, the way of eating and the way of living that we're designed to live as human beings, then that is its own way of protecting our health.