Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, if you successfully healed your leaky gut and live in a healthy enviroment your eczema will be permanently gone. It may only come back if you do the negative habits that made your gut leaky, but that is unlikely if you healed it properly.
Yes, stress can be a partial cause of flare-ups most likely because of scratching, but it also could be an immune reaction.
Eczema flare ups is worsening of the already existing condition. This can be caused by many things, from environmental triggers like Dry air, cold weather, humidity, and rapid temperature changes to harsh soaps. pollen, stress, sweat, etc.
Yes, they are often very connected. While having eczema doesn’t guarantee that you have other allergies, it is often times the case. I had both all my life until discovering the ultimate elimination diet, and my eczema always got worse when my allergies got worse.
Yes, 100% adults can develop eczema at any age. I had eczema since I was a child, but things kept getting worse and worse every year of my life. This is because my gut was becoming unhealthier and unhealthier and inflammation was leaking to my skin more and more. Leaky gut can happen at any age, and it may happen more often later on in life because you have access to drugs and alcohol you didn’t have as a child.
Eczema typically appears as red, weepy, intensely itchy, while psoriasis is often thick, scaly plaques that are less itchy. Eczema is linked to allergies and immune dysfunction, whereas psoriasis is an autoimmune condition. If you dont know already than you should go to a dermatologist who can properly diagnose which one you have.
Corticosteroids are drugs and as all other drugs there are side effects when stoping them especially if you do it cold turkey. I used corticosteroids all the time in many forms from the age of 15 to 18, and my body got addicted to them pretty badly. I quit them cold turkey and that had terible effects, so bad I couldnt leave the house for almost three months. I am glad I did quit them cold turkey because after only a few weeks on the lion diet I was better than I ever was since the age of 13.
Bad is a huge understatement, they completely destroy your body, especially for kids or people going through puberty, like I was when I used them. They close growth plates too early, making you shorter than you should have been, they weaken joints, muscles, and bones. They can influence sudden mood changes and many other negative effects. The worst part is topical steroid withdrawal when you stop using them, which is the most painful thing I ever experienced both physically and mentally.
That is actually the only way you can really heal. Medications like steroid creams and immunosuppressors just cover up the problem and put it deeper in your body until it comes back stronger and worse than before. The real way to heal eczema is to try an elimination diet, get an air cleaner for your house, and focus on supplements that actually matter like vitamin D3.
You should definetlly keep your skin moisturized, but not with any of the conventional lab made creams, but instead with beef tallow, coconut oil and shea butter. These natural mosturizers have been used by our ancestor by hundreds of generations and our genes are adapted to them unlike these chemical alternatives.
Most doctors dont have experiance in nutrition and instead they focus on covering up the symptoms through medications. They will tell you that these diets dont have any studies done on them, but they will not tell you that studies need funding and nobody is going to fund a study that will not make money.
The Lion Diet is the ultimate elimination diet where you can only eat ruminant meat which is beef, lamb, bison, etc. It is the diet that healed me and the diet I reccomend for people that are just starting out. After your gut heals than you can put other food back in and what you might notice is that you lost a lot of food sensitivities. For me I couldnt tolerate honey before the lion diet, but I could after I healed.
What you need to know is that everybody is different. We all have different backgrounds, genetics, and severity of our illnesses. For me, it took 2 weeks to see the first results, which were less pain and less redness. My neck was always the worst all of my life, and that was the part that healed last. It took me around 3 months to be completely eczema and allergy-free.
Everybody is different so this can vary from person to person, but some foods are inflammatory to everybody and these are seed oils, gluten, all processed and highly processed foods. Also a lot of people don’t understand how inflammatory and unhealthy vegetables can be, especially for somebody who is already suffering from eczema because of all the antinutrients and protective mechanisms in them.
I dont reccomend gluten to anybody no matter if they have eczema or not. Gluten is inflamatory to everybody at least to some degree. Geting rid of gluten should definetlly
That is a connection between your gut and skin through your immune system. When your gut is inflamed, leaky undigested food particles enter your bloodstream. This triggers immune responses, which create eczema. In most cases, healing your gut is the solution to healing your skin.
For most people, leaky gut is the main driver of eczema. When your gut is damaged, allergens and toxins leak into your bloodstream, causing inflammation to surface on your skin. Fixing leaky gut through diet and supplements was crucial in my healing.
Food allergies cause an immediate reaction, which sometimes can be pretty severe, even life-threatening at times. While intolerances cause delayed symptoms like eczema, bloating, or fatigue hours or days later. The best way to see if you tolerate a particular food is to go on a lion diet, which is a diet of only meat from ruminant animals. After you heal, you can put back certain foods like eggs, for example, and then after a few days, if your condition hasn’t worsened, you can continue eating them.
IgE allergy tests are very good at identifying allergies, but often miss food sensitivites and triggers. Just because you are not allergic to something to the point of having a difficult time breathing when you come in contact with a certain food doesnt mean you should it eat.
Vitamin D3 is by far the most important vitamin for people with eczema. Big doses of vitamin D3 saved my life when I had terrible infections on my skin. D3 helps immune function and skin health, and is extremely helpful for allergies as well.
Yes probiotics help with restoring the gut balance and reducing inflamation. They are particularry helpfull to people like me who have a big history with antibiotic use.
Yes, Omega-3s are naturally highly antiinflamatory and they support skin barrier function. They are always in my top three supplement picks.
I healed my eczema by doing the lion diet, supplement with vitamin D3, investing in a home air purrifier and replaceing my old creams with beef tallow.
