Question: How Does The KETO Diet Affect Eczema?

Answer: 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.

There is strong evidence that leaky gut can cause inflammatory health problems like eczema. When your gut becomes leaky, the connections holding the cells together in your intestines (called tight junctions) start to produce more Zonulin and allow gaps between the cells. When this happens, foods that you eat can get into your bloodstream, which directly causes inflammatory responses that appear on your skin in the form of eczema.

Low-carb diets like Keto have shown incredible results in healing this gut damage fast.

Keto is amazing, and I recommend it for most people, but note that some people with a very severe case of eczema, like I used to have before starting to do my own research and creating The Ultimate Eczema Protocol, have better alternatives.

When your gut and body become damaged to an extent where you have a very severe case of eczema, even healthy foods like vegetables can be problematic and inflammatory. Vegetables have chemicals that act as defense mechanisms to protect them from predators; most people can tolerate them, but they become problematic after your gut becomes damaged.

For people like that, I recommend you do the carnivore or the lion diet. The carnivore diet is a diet consisting only of animals and foods that come from animals. So, meat, seafood, dairy, and eggs. 

And if you want to go a step further, the lion diet is the ultimate elimination diet where you only consume meat from ruminant animals, salt, and water. Again, if you want to know absolutely everything about these diets and which one is right for you, join The Ultimate Eczema Protocol.