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I used to suffer from a very severe case of eczema. Once, it got so bad that I was in a hospital for a month because of a skin infection that I got. Besides eczema, I suffered from a dozen other health problems that went away with The Ultimate Eczema Protocol. Read my full story here.
Yes, if you successfully heal your leaky gut and live in a healthy environment, your eczema can be permanently gone. It may only come back if you do the negative habits that brought you there in the first place, but that is unlikely if you healed it properly. Keep in mind that everyone is different, and some people need more time and a stricter diet to heal.
That is actually the only way you can really heal. Medications like steroid creams and immunosuppressants just cover up the problem and put it deeper in your body until it comes back worse than before. The real way to heal eczema is doing an elimination diet like the lion diet or carnivore diet, healing your gut, fasting, supplementation, cleaning your environment, decreasing stress, etc.
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.
Leaky gut is mainly caused by years of alcohol, processed foods, medication, and antibiotic abuse. Other factors are stress, smoking, and poor sleep.
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 things like alcohol that 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 don’t know already, then you should go to a dermatologist who can properly diagnose which one you have.
Yes all of things that I am talking about on this website and the whole UEP community works just aswell for psoriasis. Many of these health problems are linked, before healing I didnt just have eczema I had dozen other health problems that are now gone. Some of the things that I suffered from were enviromental allergies, food allergies, pet allergies, joint pain, depression, anxiety, reacuring skin infections, blisters, extreme mood swings, muscle weakness etc.
That is a connection between your gut and skin through your immune system. When your gut is inflamed or 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.
Conventional Medicine
The difference is in how we try to address these problems. Conventional Western medicine just covers up the problem with expensive and sometimes damaging creams, corticosteroids, and more extreme treatments like Dupixent. Conventional Western medicine refuses to acknowledge that there is a fixable root cause of eczema in your body and instead puts the blame on something that nobody can control, which is your genetics. I address the issue by promoting elimination diets, gut health, fasting, cleaning your environment of toxins, supplementation, etc. This way, I did what no doctor ever could, which is actually helping people heal.
Because I had eczema for around 15 years of my life, I have seen and used absolutely everything there is from a conventional approach. From regular creams to High-Potency Topical Corticosteroids, antibiotics, phototherapy, Dupixent, Immunosuppressant medications, etc. I regret all of it; I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to never use any of that and instead do what I do now. Even if you see some relief from eczema when you use these methods, know that eczema will always come back, often times even worse. This happens because the root issues are not healed; instead, they get even worse.
Most doctors don’t have experience in nutrition, and instead they focus on covering up the symptoms through medications. They will tell you that these diets don’t 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. There are hundreds of billions of dollars in the Pharmaceutical industry; these companies fund only studies that can potentially make them money, and they don’t want you to heal through things they can’t profit from, like diet and fasting.
Corticosteroids are drugs, and as with all other drugs, there are side effects when stopping them, especially if you do it cold turkey. I used corticosteroids all the time in many forms for years, and my body got addicted to them pretty badly. I quit them cold turkey, and that had terrible effects, so bad I couldn’t leave the house for 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 12.
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 the most. 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.
Ultimate Eczema Protocol
The Ultimate Eczema Protocol is a protocol that I used to heal eczema in myself and dozens more with elimination diets, lifestyle changes, supplementation, fasting, etc. I experimented and researched for years to create this protocol as in-depth as it is.
In this protocol/course, you will get all the information you need in several courses to heal from eczema, allergies, psoriasis, rosacea, and similar health problems, as well as improve your overall health. Besides this, you will be a part of a thriving community of people who suffer from eczema or who used to suffer from eczema, and have 24/7 access to me, where you can ask me any question you want.
As soon as I started healing from eczema, allergies, asthma, depression, and other health problems by following my research, I knew I wanted to share this information with as many people as I possibly can. Firstly, I helped my friend who was going through a similar thing as I did, and then I started a blog, YouTube channel, Pinterest account, etc. Now The Ultimate Eczema Protocol is a thriving community of people who are just like you and me, helping each other heal.
You can join HERE.
Diet
The Lion Diet is the ultimate elimination diet where you can only eat ruminant meat, which is beef, lamb, bison, etc. You should definitely do this diet first if you have a severe form of eczema, allergies, asthma, or any severe skin condition besides eczema. After some time on this diet, your body will be less sensitive, and you will start to tolerate other foods better. After some time, you might notice that you lost a lot of food sensitivities. For me, I couldn’t tolerate milk before the lion diet, but I could after I healed my gut.
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 around 4 weeks to see the first results, which were less pain and less redness. Keep in mind that I had a very severe case of atopic dermatitis, and I was in TSW when I started experimenting with the lion diet, so you will probably see results faster.
Everybody is different, so this can vary from person to person, but some foods are inflammatory to everybody, and these are seed oils, gluten, and all processed and highly processed foods. Also, a lot of people don’t understand how inflammatory and unhealthy vegetables can be to somebody who already has a leaky gut because of their defense chemicals and anti-nutrients. Some healthy foods that can trigger eczema are eggs and dairy, but this has nothing to do with the foods themselves and everything to do with your broken gut that cannot digest them. Most people can eat eggs and dairy again after some time on the lion diet.
I don’t recommend gluten to anybody, no matter if they have eczema or not. Gluten is inflammatory to everybody, at least to some degree. Gluten is especially bad for people who already have leaky gut and problems like eczema. Getting rid of gluten is a must in the healing process, and everyone should do it no matter the severity of eczema.
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 and experimenting with other foods.
Diet is the main or one of the main reasons why you have eczema, but it is also the main reason why you are able to heal from eczema as well. Contrary to what a corrupted system tells you, what you eat 3 times a day for the rest of your life matters a lot. Leaky gut happens because people have abandoned their evolutionary diets and eat highly processed foods that profit nobody but the companies making them.
Healthy people should be able to eat a range of foods, but because of processed foods, antibiotics, medicine, and alcohol abuse, some people develop leaky gut and sensitivities, which prevent them from eating these foods. When your gut is damaged, your body reacts negatively to healthy foods like fruit or eggs. This is the reason why people with severe eczema should eat only ruminant meat until their gut heals.
Diets are very important, but keep in mind they are not the only thing in the process; there are many other things like fasting and supplementation. Diets that I recommend are the Lion diet, Carnivore, KETO, an animal-based diet, and an animal-based diet with vegetables. I believe that it is best that everyone starts with either the lion or the carnivore diet for some time until their leaky gut heals and then experiments further.
The carnivore diet is a diet consisting only of animals and foods that come from animals. So, meat, seafood, dairy, and eggs. There are multiple versions of the carnivore diet; for example, ketovore, where you don’t consume dairy because you want to have the positive effects of the no-sugar diet. Also, some people include coffee, tea, and certain spices because they have minimal effects on the diet.
The keto diet is a very low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet that puts your body into a state of ketosis. When that happens, your body uses its own fat for energy instead of glucose. This is the reason why keto is so popular for weight loss, but it is also great for gut healing and for health in general, which will heal your eczema.
Supplementation
Vitamin D3 is the most important vitamin for people with eczema. Vitamin D3 acts as a natural antibiotic without side effects; it is also very anti-inflammatory. Big doses of vitamin D3 saved my life when I had terrible infections on my skin. D3 also helps immune function and skin health, and is extremely helpful for allergies as well. Buying a high-quality vitamin D3 supplement is very important because there is almost no vitamin D3 in foods, and most people with eczema can’t get enough sun.
Yes, probiotics help with restoring the gut balance and reducing inflammation. They are particularly helpful to people like me who have a long history of antibiotic use.
Yes, Omega-3s are naturally highly anti-inflammatory, and they support skin barrier function. They are always in my top three supplement picks.
In my opinion, the most important vitamins for eczema are Vitamin D3, Vitamin E, Vitamin K2, Vitamin A, and Vitamin C.
Besides Vitamin D3, the best supplement for eczema is an animal organ supplement, preferably a beef organ supplement. Organs are very important and nutrient-dense, but they are often times hard to find and make, which makes a beef organ supplement amazing.
I use a lot of supplements, some for a very long time and some that I recently started experimenting with, so I can write about them and recommend them to you. I currently use Vitamin D3 + K2, Zinc, Magnesium Glycinate, grass-fed colostrum, beef organs, collagen, and a probiotic supplement.
Allergy
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 healing with The Ultimate Eczema Protocol, and my eczema always got worse when my allergies got worse.
IgE allergy tests are very good at identifying allergies, but often miss food sensitivities 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 doesn’t mean you should eat it.
Yes, allergens often can make your eczema worse by triggering immune system responses that lead to inflammation. When you come in contact with things like dust or pollen, your skin will react first.
Yes, it is possible to heal from allergies. Allergies work very similarly to eczema because leaky gut and your overall health create and influence them. By doing things that will fix your health and heal leaky gut, your allergies will go away.
Yes, I had allergies all my life, from food allergies to pet and environmental allergies. As time went on and my eczema got worse, my allergies got worse as well. For years, I couldn’t breathe through my nose without using corticosteroids, which have terrible side effects. And every time I got in contact with these allergens, my eczema and other problems got worse as well. When I started healing from eczema through my research, my allergies started going away as well.
The most common types of allergies are environmental allergies, food allergies, pet allergies, mold allergies, and dust allergies.
You can learn everything you need to know about healing allergies in The Ultimate Eczema Protocol
Recommended Products
Please visit my Recommended Products page for the full list of helpful products and which ones I recommend!
Yes, air purifiers are amazing and can be very helpful for eczema and overall health. This is especially true for people who have problems with allergies or mold in their homes. I believe that clean air and air purifiers are extremely overlooked and underappreciated; this is especially true for people like us who are sensitive to mold and unclean air.
In my opinion, the best air purifier on the market is Air Oasis iAdaptAir 2.0 Medium.
Yes, air fryers are a lifesaver on the eczema-healing diets that I recommend because all of these diets are very meat-centered, and air fryers don’t need seed oils, which is a must. Air fryers are a cheap, time-effective way to make many foods on these diets.
I recommend the Ninja Air Fryer.
There are certainly some products that will make your life much easier on these diets. Go to my recommended products page to see everything that I use and recommend.
Triggers
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.
Sweat is a very common trigger. Because sweat contains salt and waste products, your skin gets irritated and itchy. Sweat was the worst trigger for me, and it was the reason why I had to stop all of the physical activity when my eczema became severe.
Dust is a very common eczema trigger and allergen. Because dust is such a common allergen, it can cause immune reactions that make your eczema flare up. Make sure that the environment you are in is clean and dust-free. Air purifiers and cleaners helped me with this issue a lot as well.
Cigarette smoke is one of the worst triggers for eczema and can make your eczema flare up intensely. Smoking weakens your skin barrier and exposes you to thousands of toxins that land on your skin, which causes inflammation and irritation. If you want your eczema to ever get better, you must stop smoking, but even if you don’t smoke, try not to be in an environment where there is cigarette smoke as much as possible.
Yes, lack of sleep is a common eczema trigger that can make your condition worse. I had a lot of problems with my sleep when I had eczema because of how much it hurt and irritated me. This creates a horrible cycle because eczema gets worse when you don’t get enough sleep, but also eczema will not let you sleep in the first place. This is something that I address a lot in The Ultimate Eczema Protocol, where I have a whole section talking about fixing your sleep.
Yes, getting rid of alcohol is a must in the process of healing eczema the natural way. Alcohol creates leaky gut, which I believe is the number one cause of eczema. It also makes your body release histamine, which causes inflammation. Please don’t drink alcohol; it is not worth it. Your eczema and overall health can suffer badly because of it.
This question cannot be answered with yes or no because it depends on the person and where that caffeine came from. Caffeine is a plant toxin that plants make to protect themselves from predators. Of course, caffeine is not going to kill a human like it can kill an insect, but if your gut is damaged, these toxins can trigger eczema. If you are going to drink caffeine, you absolutely should drink green tea instead of coffee.
Yes, coffee contains caffeine, which is a plant toxin that can create problems for people with leaky gut. Coffee is also full of mold, which is, in my opinion, one of the worst eczema triggers. I always recommend and prefer green tea over coffee, but if you really want to drink coffee, I recommend Lineage Pure Coffee, which is the only coffee that I have found that doesn’t trigger my eczema when I drink it.
Yes, mold is a major eczema trigger. I believe that mold is the most overlooked eczema trigger, and it can be detrimental to your eczema, allergies, and health overall. I used to have mold in my home, and even when I started healing with The Ultimate Eczema Protocol, I didn’t know that mold had anything to do with my lifelong health problems until I started researching this topic. When I discovered all of this, I was left horrified because I remember having mold in my hospital room, where I was day and night for a month when I had a horrible skin infection.
Yes, perfumes and synthetic fragrances are some of the most common triggers for eczema flare-ups. These perfumes are full of harmful chemicals and alcohol, which can be very irritating to your skin. I believe that they are harmful for everybody, even for people that dont have eczema, but this is especially true for people with eczema because they have weak and sensitive skin.
My most common triggers were cigarette smoke, mold, perfumes, synthetic fragrances, sweat, lack of sleep, stress, dust, and pollen. Basically, the things that are on the triggers part of the FAQ page.
Yes, pollen is a major environmental trigger that worsens eczema. A pollen allergy is one of the most common allergies out there, which means that when somebody who is sensitive comes into contact with pollen, because of the negative immune reaction, their eczema gets worse as well.
Yes, unfortunately, most household cleaning products are eczema triggers. These products frequently cause irritation and strip the skin of its natural defenses. Some of the best natural alternatives are baking soda and distilled white vinegar. Visit my best products page to see the full list of non-toxic cleaning products.
Creams & Moisturizers
The best moisturizers for eczema are grass-fed beef tallow, organic virgin coconut oil, shea butter, castor oil, and manuka honey if you have an infection.
Currently, I am eczema-free, but I still use grass-fed beef tallow from time to time because beef tallow has great benefits for skin besides eczema.
The chemistry of tallow is very similar to the chemistry of your skin and the oil your body naturally produces. Tallow will not oxidize the skin, and most importantly, it is full of important vitamins for skin like vitamin A, D, E, and K. High-quality tallow is also full of CLA, which helps retain moisture in the skin.
The truth is, no moisturizer will heal eczema or even help it significantly. I still believe that there are benefits to using grass-fed beef tallow if you want, but don’t expect it to help you significantly. All moisturizers just hydrate your skin, which just covers up the problem instead of actually fixing it. To actually heal, you have to stop focusing on skin itself and focus on the things that will repair your gut and health, which will give you healthy and beautiful skin.
Commercial moisturizers are usually just sitting on your skin and trying to cover up the problem instead of addressing the root cause. Also, they are full of chemicals and synthetic vitamins that can make your condition even worse. Their only use is to make your skin somewhat hydrated to prevent open wounds and infections, but that hydration will not last long, and you will need to use them every 2-4 hours to keep your skin hydrated.
Corticosteroids in topical creams are the first thing that your doctors will describe you when you enter a more severe phase of eczema. These steroids basiclly just push inflamation from your skin deeper in your body and it is just the matter of time till it comes back even worse. The side effects of corticosteroid creams are skin thinning, strech marks, weak joints, weak musscles, stunt growth in kids, and adrenal suppression. I used these steroid creams for years and then when I stoped I entered CSW(corticosteroid withdrawal). When I was in CSW every inch of my skin was completly red.
You should definitely 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 moisturizers have been used by our ancestors for hundreds of generations, and our genes are adapted to them, unlike these chemical alternatives.
I use Lineage Provinsions 100% Grass-Fed Beef Tallow.