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Psoriasis May Be Your Messenger of Internal Toxic Buildup

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Psoriasis: An Indicator of Systemic Problems.

The following information has been gathered and compiled through personal experience while traveling, teaching T’ai Chi, Qi Gong, Chinese Herbal medicine, martial arts and other health related subjects.  The article also contains feedback from students and anecdotal information from readers of my columns.  The following are my opinions and deductions from those sources.

As stated in my other articles on health of the skin, most skin problems, including psoriasis, are an indication of toxic buildup internally.  Psoriasis indicates a malfunction or overload problem involving the liver.  If you treat the cause and improve the function of the liver, you’ll find that the psoriasis problem will also improve, and probably disappear.

Skin conditioners and cosmetics only treat the symptoms and don’t address the underlying cause(s). 

Waste products are broken down, filtered and and sent to the organs of elimination by the liver and kidneys.  If these organs aren’t working correctly there will be internal toxic buildup.  Sweat is made up primarily of waste materials.  If the pores of the skin are clogged, the waste material is recycled through the body.  The skin is one of the last organs of elimination and if waste products require recycling, they have to go against the flow, so to speak.  If the waste is not eliminated, it will collect in the major body organs and cause, or contribute to, diseases.

Regular bowel movements are the number one step toward elimination of internal toxic buildup.  Ground flax seed works for everyone I know where irregular bowel movements are a problem.  You must increase your intake of water, other fluids aren’t a replacement for good, clean water, if you use flax seed, psyllium seed or psyllium hulls as a bulking agent.  Water is necessary as a constituent of hemoglobin for oxygen uptake and the subsequent delivery at the cellular level.  See my article on    Depression And The RBC Hemoglobin Ring for more information.

Vitamin C and Magnesium, taken with a full glass of water to bowel tolerance, also relieves constipation for most people I know.  Usually, it requires a tablespoon of each to be effective.  Common iceplant, which is full of vitamins and minerals, eaten raw will also usually relieve even the most stubborn case of constipation.  Very seldom is constipation a personal problem but if it is, I find iceplant to be the best remedy.  Be sure you find a source that is uncontaminated, away from streets and highways and where water pollution isn’t a problem.  I find the taste is agreeable, although a little too salty, and that a small handful is sufficient to do the job.  I’ve never had a problem with diarrhea when using iceplant, which may not be the case when ingesting supplements to bowel tolerance.

Drinking eight full glasses of water per day is essential to overall health, health of the skin and elimination of psoriasis.  Coffee, tea, sodas and alcohol and fruit juices, especially those with any form of sugar added, will not take the place of water.

Pork and pork products contribute to psoriasis.  There are no long established diets, thousands of years of success, that include any pork.  If you want to eliminate psoriasis, and keep it out of your life, you have to eliminate pork from your diet first, and forever. 

Eliminating or drastically reducing foods high in sugars both natural and otherwise, and foods high in starches, will speed the healing of the psoriasis problem.  If you reintroduce one food at a time after the psoriasis patches disappear, you can pinpoint the foods that are problems for you.  Any products that contain added sugars, like sodas, cakes, pies, candy, ice cream and most canned foods, should be eliminated permanently if your objective is to be free from psoriasis.  Check the labels, anything that ends in “ose” (fructose, sucrose, etc.) is a sugar.  HFCS, high fructose corn syrup, is especially damaging to the recovery from psoriasis. 

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About Larry Miller

I was born in Los Angeles in 1940. My father was a fighter pilot instructor during WWll and we moved from coast to coast, maybe that’s where I got the nomad in my blood. After graduating from high school in 1958 I joined the Marines. That lifestyle wasn’t for me and upon my discharge I went on with my life, and have never looked back. I worked briefly for a Caterpillar dealer in Riverside, CA before moving back to N. California where I was a welder and truck driver for a chemical company. Truck driving wasn’t my calling anymore than being in the Marines, and I went back to work for another Caterpillar dealer steam cleaning dirty tractor parts and welding. They sent me to schools, lots and lots of schools. I spent as much time going to trade schools as I did at work. I went from cleaning parts to apprentice field mechanic, to mechanic to the parts department to satellite store manager in less than two years. They wanted me to move to Sacramento and be a salesman: I moved to Oregon to learn to commune with nature. I went to work for another heavy equipment dealer and was later contacted by the World’s largest Lorraine Crane dealer and offered the position of purchasing agent and general parts manager. In 1967 I was offered a line of automotive parts and supplies and went into business for myself. My business revolved around eleven race cars that we maintained for others, driving race cars professionally and maintaining high end sports cars. I was a championship and regional champion driver. My business was the largest import parts and service, non dealer, in the state until I sold it in 1979. We went sailing in 79, first to Mexico and then Hawaii. I was an award winning Trans-Pacific sailor and sailor of the year, Hawaii, Island of Kauai. An opportunity presented itself in Hawaii during 1981 and I was back in business, importing Japanese auto body and hard parts. I also felt the pull to write and began freelancing for magazines and newspapers in 1982. My main focus in my articles is, and always has been, health, wellness and fitness. Most of us have heard the saying, “Time is all we have.” I disagree. Our health is all we have, because without our health, we have no time. I was a US Olympic team hopeful in racewalking and held all the records for the state of Hawaii. As a sponsored athlete in my forties, I finished first in nine marathons in a row in my division, qualified for the Ironman® and was the state USCF cycling champion five times in Hawaii and Oregon. Celinda and I were married in 1988 after a three year engagement. We sold our businesses and organic farm and sailed back to Oregon. After our sailboat boat was sold, we moved to Joseph, Oregon, two miles from the trailhead into the Eagle Cap Wilderness. We were caregivers for my mother the last ten years she was alive. We moved to New Mexico in 1995 because it was too cold for my mom in Oregon during the winters. Celinda designed, and I engineered and built our strawbale house. I began writing the weekly health column for a local newspaper in 1996, and still do. In 2000, I took the summer off to do a four month, 4000 mile, hike, bike and kayak odyssey. I’d been writing health, fitness and sports articles since 1982 and the journey produced a full-length, nonfiction, first person adventure book, Yol Bolsun, May There Be A Road, which can be bought from Amazon.com and others over the Internet. The summer of 2001 was spent hiking. kayaking, fishing and exploring the southwest. In 2002 Celinda and I spent the summer in Canada learning the hospitality business at a resort in preparation for doing promotion for the resort in the US. Most of 2003 was spent reestablishing the trees and landscape that had died during the stay in Canada. We had a house sitter and the house sitter had an ex-husband, and that’s a long story. In July of 2004 I did a solo kayak trip on the Snake River, taking pictures, writing articles and pencil sketching the journey. I hope to do another kayak adventure on the Snake River during the summer of 2008, on the section I missed in 2000 and 2004. In 2005, I returned to Canada to the resort where we’d spent 2002. I was supposed to be there for the month of June. I’d contacted people I’d met in 2002 and they came back to Canada to fish, hike and spend time at the resort, Echo Valley Ranch and Spa, while I was there. My one month became five and then it was off to Spain to do the El Camino de Santiago as a travel companion with one of the guests who’d returned to Canada in June. During the summer of 2006 a friend from Ireland, who I’d met in Spain the year before, came to visit in NM and we fished, hiked and explored the White Mountains of AZ. He’d never slept out in the wild in a tent before, and it was quite an experience, for both of us. My newspaper articles were put on the Internet beginning in 2002. I was asked to give public speaking engagements, photo and video presentations, on various subjects for the library in Deming, NM and continue to do so. In 2006 I videoed and produced a DVD for the Smithsonian Institute’s travel exhibit “Between Fences.” NMFILMS had a conference by invitation only, which I attended. While attending the conference, I realized that film making wasn’t what I wanted to do but I still wanted to use my sixteen years of experience and enjoyment of videoing and photography. During the winter of 2005, I discovered that no one on record had ever run from the Arizona border to the Texas border, a distance of 165 miles. During the spring and summer of 2006 I trained for the run and the run was completed in October, 2006. In late 2005, I began building and maintaining websites incorporating all the things I enjoyed about video, photography, travel and the out of doors. 2007 has been a summer of upgrading the home and property which resulted in a downgrading of my enthusiasm for being located in one place. If we don’t like what’s happening in our life, we need to change what we’re doing. Celinda and I are ready to pull up roots and move on. I guess I’ve come full circle. I’m ready to revert back to my childhood, and a nomadic lifestyle.

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