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Thought it was time to talk about my issues. It's going to be a bit of a rambly mess to read. My apologies in advance.

Timeline first, I am now 33 years old:

When I was 16 I started getting itchy psoriasis. Now I know I was constipated from then onwards as well. The bristol stool chart I add here has helped me figure that out, where stool number 3 and 4 are perfect. The stool in the picture is made out of clay. Had chronic fatigue issues, very angry and easily annoyed at the smallest of things, I was not a pleasure to live with at the time. It all started at the same time as inflamed tonsils/step throat? There's a link to psoriasis there. Slept 11h on average with sometimes 14h a night. Started injecting vitamin B12 the next few years and this helped a lot, could literally feel when I needed a new one as I'd get cranky if I did too long without. I also started binge-drinking in my teens, only when going out in weekends though and never at home. Alcohol = increased bowel permeability I know now.

Visited a naturopathic doctor maybe 1,5 - 2 years after onset of symptoms who saw chronically slightly elevated lymphocites, he prescribed isoprinosine because he suspected a latent viral infection. Tested positive for eppstein-barr as well. This medicine "retrained" my immune system, I got flu-like sick. Felt better after my body cured the sickness, than I did before taking it. This was major step in my recovery. Pulsed this a few times and stopped because of it not helping anymore and it being expensive. Together with him being half the country away and me planning my sleep around the appointments, didn't help. Did not see a lot of sun in my teens, saw a lot of it in my childhood. Not a lot after my teens either.

Tried ketogenic diet a bit after. This helped nothing. Was a lot of nuts, olive oil, little bit of meat. Not sure about the veggies. I think it was okay? It was more than 13 years ago. But I did go mostly gluten-free from this point onwards. When I ate at my parents or grandma I would still eat gluten. Occasionally at home too, but not too often. This sort of helped a little bit. 

Psoriasis got worse over the years. Tiredness sort of stayed okay, slightly better over the years even and was manageable if I didn't have a job. Sleeping pattern all over the place, basically non-24. Every day I go to bed 40 minutes later and wake up 40 minutes later. Doesn't matter whether I have a job or not. So every night got shorter till I just couldn't go to sleep and still had to go to work.

Only treatment for psoriasis that sort of helped was UV-B therapy. But took a long time to take effect and gave me red, dry and itchy skin very easily all over my body. And I did not stay clear for long. I assume now this was retinol esters? UV-B for psoriasis is 311 nm. "Retinyl esters, a storage form of vitamin A, concentrate in the epidermis, and absorb ultraviolet radiation with a maximum at 325 nm." The range they absorb UV radiation is from 300 - 350 nm with a maximum of 325. Coincidence? Maybe different retinyl esters absorb different wavelengths more efficiently?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14708621/

[ignore the rest of the article and its conclusions, just posting it here for the wavelength]

I think when I was about 28 I started another ketogenic diet trial, together with intermittent fasting and full-body calisthenics at home. After about 9 months of this I was close to free of psoriasis, while having seen no sun. I felt the best I had ever felt.

Diet was mostly onions, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, leafy greens, homemade sauerkraut, 3 egg yolks every day. I think maybe 70% of the vegetables was onions though. Everything was SMOTHERED in butter. Needed to be in ketosis after all. 2 pieces of meat every day. So 2 sausages or something. 2x a week fatty fish from a tin. Smoked mackerel, sardines etc. Liverwurst quite often. Made my own chili con carne quite often as well. I did 1 liver flush in this time as well. Took the juice of 3 lemons per day. Lots of heavy cream in coffee. Lots of butter in coffee. But I also quit coffee the last 5 months of this period. Lots of mascarpone cheese with blueberries and avocado. Lots of homemade sauerkraut. Took glutamine in high dosages. Took vitamin B5, B2, B3 at night. Probably a multi as well. And of course the B12 and folic acid. Did some salt flushes in the morning as well. So a lot of things tried and not sure what combination of things actually did it.

But as I said: after 9 months I felt great. Tinnitus? Gone. Tiredness? Gone. I slept a full night and woke up refreshed. I would go to bed at normal times and wake up normal times. I'd sleep maybe 6h every night and be refreshed. Down from the 9,5-10h that was average now. I now realize that this was the first time I wasn't constipated in my life. I had soft green but sticky stools. Switched diet up again a bit because I felt great, ordered some more carby food. But still stuck to the intermittent fasting thinking this was the main reason it all went so great. This went great for about 3 months and then the psoriasis came back.  Manageable though, till it wasn't.

At that point I went carnivore for about two years because that was all the rage. I thought it was the high meat, and keto + intermittent fasting part that made it all work for me. Nope. Psoriasis got worse in some ways, but also better at the same time in other ways? And I couldn't do no veggies/carbs for more than 2 weeks no matter how much I salted/took magnesium. Biggest cramps of my life in my lower belly, and wake up at night with cramping calves where I'd have to stretch for 5 minutes. And wake up again multiple times that night. But I also took a  lot of liver, thinking this was good (paleolithic ketogenic diet, from paleo medicina). They cured cancer and what not with their diet. Published about it and everything. I got joints that kept inflaming, one toe would keep hurting every step. And I could put no pressure on my sternum, it popped and was painful. Uric acid in blood that went skyhigh.

From this onwards also IBS issues. These sort of but not completely disappeared when I made amasi/maas and drank I think a cup per day for a month? It's a mesophilic yoghurt that can be made at room temperature. Very delicious. There's a lot of info out there that psoriasis is caused by a disrupted microbiome. Some article talked about IBS being cured by yoghurt after people eating it for 6 weeks I think? 

After a while I tried keto again, with vegetables. Also ate quite a bit of cheese. Tried the homemade, and storebought sauerkraut. Psoriasis still got worse... and the sugar cravings stayed and were really hard to suppress. I did not endulge often. I have had a sweet tooth since my early teens. I had cloudy urine once in a while. Not very often, but often enough to have me worried. It got clear when I added vinegar to it. So I assume it's calcium phosphate. This went on for about 15 months. Tried low veg carnivore keto again, but with liver (who knew it was bad!!). Cloudy urine after eating liver was close to 80%-100% chance so at the time I was thinking purines. Kebab ordered from the city maybe 40% chance. Ate a bag of cookies. Cloudy urine. But if I followed keto with mostly onions, little bit of meat I'd feel fine (too much meat: cloudy urine). Eat at grandma, just sandwiches: 30% chance at cloudy urine. But not always.. and not always with the same foods. Difficult to track down.

Tried the eggs yolks again, 1-3 per day. Thinking it was thát what helped me feel so great the years before. Gave me major anxiety everytime I tried. At the time I thought they were making me overmethylate. Made me feel horrible and increased my anxiety big time everytime.

At 32 years old I tested for positive for HemoPyrrolLactamUria (HPU). Took the associated minerals and vitamins. This helped a lot, but not enough. At least another part of the puzzle to me. At some point I started making Reuteri Yogurt with how Dr. Davis makes it. Brainfog I always had after eating, but also after concentrating on a task for a while. Gone. Totally gone. I felt like a new man. Cloudy urine stayed and this had me the most worried. Since this time brainfog sometimes returns... I make reuteri / sibo-yogurt according to his recipe and it'll go away again. Reuteri made my psoriasis less wet, and less itchy. It definitely took care of some bugs in my intestine somewhere. But the psoriasis seemed to encompass larger areas.

But: see it mentioned often when on HPU protocol that heavy metal toxicity will be an issue after supplementing for 2 months and you need chelators. So I took..... chlorella daily for 3 months. Very high in beta carotene. Took maybe 9g per day for a few weeks. Foamy urine. But my (paranoid) anxiety I had the past 3-4 years disappeared when I ate bunches of coriander-leaf. I'd get major anxiety when it was in my colon... but the moment I passed it: all anxiety gone. Randomly found a youtube comment talking about vitamin A being a poison... and it started connecting in my head. Google rabbit hole and I ended up here, saw some high carotene foods listed and more dots connected. Also got red itchy rashes when stools passed certain parts of my intestine. Anxiety when it was in that area as well. The itchy rash would follow the stool down and would disappear as fast as the stool passed that area. But also: When I noticed the rash and itchiness that was also when my urine would be cloudy. When the urine was cloudy I also noticed a heightened anxiety. Heightened anxiety... see cloudy urine. Anxiety goes up even further. You can imagine.

Of course I instantly went low vitamin A. I think I took maybe cod liver once to test and yeah of course cloudy urine.

So january first this year... start off the new year shitting by doing a liver flush the way Andreas Moritz explains it. Andreas Moritz does say: when you do a flush, keep flushing till no more stones come out or you leave the liver in a toxic state. Maybe I made my situation worse 4 years ago by only doing it once, better to not do it at all then. First time I did a liver flush since that psoriasis-free moment, and I got twenty stones total with two green stones as big as my smallest pinky bone. A lot of my health issues lessened with that first one, I do not feel like I have to go to the toilet every 20 minutes. I did not have a high colonic irrigation after this first one.. but did with every flush after. And the big success for me: no more cloudy urine. The cloudy urine period was maybe 15 months total with it happening once every 2-4 weeks? Maybe I had a hint of cloudiness one time after the first flush. Also I felt like I needed less minerals (magnesium/potassium). After this I also went full retard with the psyllium husk fiber, and beans, like someone else on this forum. This dislodged even more small ones every day the few weeks after. Glassy green to black ones a few times, but mostly tan ones. When the green to black ones came out I could feel pressure in my liver area, and see them in the stool the next day.  Next flush 3 weeks after only had small tan stones and was super nauseous during the flush. No nausea at the first one!

Third flush a month after the second I had 2 the size of my smallest index finger bone, 4 the size of my smallest pinky bone, 50 between that and pea size. And rest smaller stuff. If I count all the small gritty stuff It'd be 200 stones total. Digestion improved, massively. I shall be flushing again in 2 weeks.

So since the start of this year I mostly eat beans, onions, little bit of meat, 2 egg yolks per day. With sometimes a bit of sushi rice. And I feel a lot better than I have in a long while. I occasionally eat like crap...again.. and while before that'd give me cloudy urine instantly that no longer is the case. 

Sugar cravings are close to 100% gone after having taken the reuteri yogurt. It feels great to not be a slave to the cravings. Before this I could be standing in the sugary cookies aisle in the supermarket and stand there for 5 minutes. Before, with a lot of willpower, I'd walk off. But at home I'd keep thinking about walking back and buying some. There have been moments I'd go to the night-store at 3 am to buy cookies. I could think about buying cookies / sugary treats for two weeks before I'd give in and buy some.

Recently the psoriasis disappeared from my head (praise the lord) and appeared in other parts, like my lower leg and higher back. I feel like certain parts of the liver or intestine are connected to the skin in some way. This was either after the HPU minerals with coriander-leaf and chlorella (which gave me green bily stools). Or it was after the first liver flush. I do not remember exactly. Too many things tried over the years!

I also took seed synbiotic for 3 months about 9 months ago? This also helped a lot with normalizing bowel movements... and the lower intestinal pain was gone after this, or mostly gone. I still take these sometimes. I'd rather get a full (lab-grown?) fecal transplant probably, but getting a good (tested) source is difficult. And that is a major, major gamble... and why risk it, when right now I think the future is actually very bright for once?

 

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