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And
the next step that had been recommended was methotrexate
which is a form of chemotherapy. You don't get to stop after eight or ten rounds.
And
because you take it indefinitely that means you have to have liver biopsies to
determine the point at which liver can't sustain
another dosage of it. And those live biopsies mean that you go into the
hospital and you have a giant needle stuck into your liver. That procedure
itself can be very dangerous not to mention the dangers and side effects
associated with taking indefinitely.
So
that option didn't seem that great to me. I went online. I started looking for
other options besides the and that's
when I started learning about the potential connections between diet and
psoriasis.
D:
So the things you were using weren't really helping you all that much and some
of the other alternatives you had just didn't seem to be very acceptable to you
and that's what got you looking for more information. Now when did you decide
to write the book?
I
didn't decide to write a book. What happened was after I changed my diet, one
thing that I had learned as a dietitian was what I was seeing recommended as a
way to approach psoriasis through diet was because what I learned as a
registered dietitian.
I
knew there were no negative side effects associated with what was recommended.
I knew that it was nothing more than an extremely healthy diet. And so I did
six-month experiment to see what would happen. At the end of the six months, my
hands had cleared about 90-95% without any prescriptions.
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