Nutrition for Wellness psoriasis protocol

23/09/2025

Stockholm Syndrome purported by our Modern Medical System

The following paragraph was posted by Andy Kaufman, M.D. (excuse me a moment; Andy, did you go to elementary school in the 60’s in Mt. Washington? If yes, Hi, this is Rusty)

“There’s no better example of Stockholm Syndrome then the modern medical system. Day after day, millions of people willingly hand themselves over to their abusers without even realizing it. They comply with the misleading and invasive screening tests, take medications, and submit to procedures that don’t serve them, trusting a system that profits from keeping them sick. Don’t let this be you. Become your own health authority instead.”

The following paragraph is from me:

First, I must say that I am not faulting or accusing the medical profession or any other group. It is true, though, that most psoriasis sufferers are not receiving satisfactory outcomes from the therapy they are receiving. Here is my opinion of the main reasons:

· From medical school through their careers, doctors are very busy. Few keep up with the latest information. Their treatments almost exclusively rely on drugs and surgeries. Interest in the therapeutic use of supplementation is rare even though it is far safer than medications. And it gets worse.

· Research by pharmaceutical companies is part of doing business. There isn’t sufficient money in the supplement business to conduct Randomized Controlled Trials. And it gets worse.

· Most of the supplement studies I read use doses that are woefully inadequate to reflect the potential value of the supplements. And it gets worse.

· Supplement dosages determined by the government are required on supplement labels. NONE of these dosages that I’ve seen in 30 years are sufficient to be therapeutic. And it gets worse.

· Drugs prescribed by doctors for other issues often cause “flare-ups” of psoriasis symptoms causing much more distress to patients.

· Changes in diet can be helpful by moderating symptoms, but this can be difficult as psoriasis tends to change without warning.

· Elimination diets can help, but they can also deprive patients of nutrients that were helping.

· Topical treatments are hit or miss in reducing symptoms and must be continuously repeated.

· New “biologic” medications can be very helpful in largely eliminating symptoms by medicinally manipulating patients’ immune systems, making patients more susceptible to other illness.

Instead of following these mostly ineffective treatments we should be supplementing our diets with the proper nutrients in proper, therapeutic amounts that, frankly we are not getting. This should be a top priority to promote optimum health and the first line of defense against illness.

17/09/2025

Why Doesn’t Supplementation get More Respect?

The most obvious answer to our question is “Follow the Money.” I’ll spend some time on that issue first, but then dive a little deeper. It’s not all as bad as it sounds.

Researching for this post, I stumbled on a resource website, NutritionwithJudy.com (now named EMPOWER Functional Health). She has an article “The US and NZ Are the Only Countries That Allow Pharmaceutical Drug Commercials”.

Here are some of the “money” issues from the article that are blocking out supplementation.
- In 2016, $5.2 BILLION was used by the drug industry in advertising.
- In 2020, the largest TV advertisers in the U.S. were drug companies.
- Humira ranked first, with TV ad spend hitting $34.1 M. (One month’s expenditures!)
- Ads work so well that most doctors don’t have to recommend medications. Their patients push for the sale.
- I did a little AI searching for “vitamins” and “medicine” expenditures:
- how much advertising dollars are spent in the U.S. on TV ads for medicine?
o In 2022, pharmaceutical companies spent approximately $6.58 billion on TV advertising. (wow)
- how much advertising dollars are spent on TV ads for vitamins?
o In 2022, the vitamin and supplement industry spent approximately $1.5 billion on TV advertising. (also, wow)

Two observations I’d like to share:
- TV ads for medicines include some warnings of their safety. This is good and getting better, but these warnings are audio only while the video often shows would-be patients seemingly having the time of their lives.
- The FDA doesn’t have rules like this for supplements. Here’s what they do have discussing the ad content: “This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.” Is it me or does this make it sound like the FDA thinks supplements are worthless?

10/09/2025

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04/09/2025

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19/08/2025

Tell us what supplements you are talking and at what dosage, list them in comments please
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24/07/2025

Rusty’s Rant – Restrictive Diets for Psoriasis

This will be my fourth post in a serise about diet and psoriasis. I hope my posts have added some helpful information to the discussion.

Concerning diet, psoriasis sufferers have the added issue of flare-ups. This brings us back to what supplements should we take and how much. Using the study data from “Nutrient Composition of a Carnivore Diet” for the third post stirred my rantiness (is that a word?). The study used an equivalent guideline to the RDA. This guides us to thinking these tiny doses are the correct doses.

It’s hard enough to get people to try supplementation. It’s infuriating when they do try, and find the supplements aren’t working well all because the official dosages are much too low.

So my advice to you is look for data, and when you find something interesting, make sure to find the supplement doses given. If the study used “One-A-Day” amounts figuratively speaking, adjust the study results appropriately.

We are here to help if you need it.

Rant over. Thank you for reading and all the best.

23/07/2025

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20/07/2025

The Carnivore Diet Looks Good, But…

Our recent posts discussing diet & psoriasis were well received. Upon reading the comments, it occurred to me that the strict diets discussed did not include consideration of the levels of nutrients the diets provide.

I found a study, “Assessing the Nutrient Composition of a Carnivore Diet: A Case Study Model“1 on PubMed. “The aim was to assess the micronutrient adequacy of four versions of the carnivore diet against national nutrient reference values (NRVs).” The NRV numbers are not what we use in the USA, but it’s close to the “Recommended Daily Allowance” we use here.

The study summary conclusions for inadequate nutrients determined “However, it fell short in thiamin, magnesium, calcium, and Vitamin C, and in iron, folate, iodine and potassium in some cases. Fibre intake was significantly below recommended levels.”

To keep this somewhat brief, I will only look at vitamin C, since this has been my major focus for over 20 years. The RDA for vitamin C for men is 90mg a day. The study found the vitamin C amounts in their carnivore meals were 1.21mg in meal 3 and 33.2mg in meal 4. For reference, I have been taking about 10,000mg per day for 30 years and I tell people that the only significant side-effect is chronic good health. I personally refer to the RDA as “Ridiculously Deficient Amounts” to give you some perspective.

My take-away for you is that the Carnivore diets appear to have a positive effect for people with psoriasis, although the data are slim. If you are using the carnivore diet, you should add nutritional supplementation to cover what the carnivore diet omits. Our Psoriasis Protocol would be a good place to start.

(1) Goedeke, Sylvia, et al. “Assessing the Nutrient Composition of a Carnivore Diet: A Case Study Model.” Nutrients, vol. 17, no. 1, 31 Dec. 2024, p. 140, https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17010140. Accessed 12 Jan. 2025.

18/07/2025

Diet & Psoriasis, part 1 - What our DNA needs us to eat

Focusing historically on the human race, our nutritional needs evolved during the hunter-gatherer period of 10,000+ years ago. The nutrients we relied on then were mostly "gathered" with as much "hunting" as we could throw a stone at. Our DNA hasn't changed much since then, but our diets, especially in the industrialized world, have changed dramatically during this period, to say the least. My opinion, for what it's worth, is that, generally again, we should eat whole foods and stay away from junk. I believe it was Carlton Fredericks that said that when you go to the grocery store, you should buy the foods around the perimeter and not the stuff in boxes in the aisles.

Sugar is a good example of diet gone wrong. I read that the reason we all like sweetness is so we would eat ripe fruit which is more nutrient dense. Also, those of us who craved sweet foods were less likely to die of starvation, spreading this DNA to our off-spring. I say this has “gone wrong” because our diets typically include dangerously high amounts of sugar.

My focus has been on what important nutrients our modern diet is lacking. I believe this is an overlooked and critical aspect of good health.

Obviously, you need to understand what foods cause your system stress and try to avoid them. At the same time, your body's needs are generally the same as they were thousands of years ago, so keep this in mind. I believe supplementing our diet with the proper nutrients in the proper amounts should be our first priority to promote optimum health and the first line of defense against illness. People with psoriasis have a particular need due to the autoimmune foundation of psoriasis. I am confident that having a careful diet combined with the needed supplementation will clear psoriasis for most sufferers. If you want to read more about the evolution of our diet, I recommend Stone Age Nutrition: The Original Human Diet at encyclopedia.com (https://www.encyclopedia.com/food/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/stone-age-nutrition-original-human-diet)

17/07/2025

Diet & Psoriasis, part 2 - Carnivore & Keto Diets

I think the reason a Carnivore or Keto diet works is two-fold. First, it mirrors, at least somewhat, the diet humans had during a long period of our genetic development, making it similar to what our chemistry set called the human body expects and needs. Secondly, the diet eliminates a lot of the foods we eat in our modern diet, which is stressful and, frankly, not very good for us.

Unfortunately, discussions about diet, even with doctors, more often than not center around what not to eat, which, I admit, is a very worthwhile discussion. But the other side of the nutritional coin, which isn't discussed as it should be, is supplementing our diet with the proper nutrients in proper, therapeutic amounts that, frankly we are not getting. This should be a top priority to promote optimum health and the first line of defense against illness.

17/07/2025

If you like reading our posts on the psoriasis Facebook groups by the one and only Rusty Hoge, please visit our Facebook private and public groups. Come with us on our mission to heal psoriasis.

My psoriasis testimonial is on both groups, and we are now working with other sufferers regarding the protocol to heal their psoriasis. Going through the protocol worked for me. We understand we are all different, which is why our mission includes a lot of hands-on help and guidance.

I am John Fori, social networker for Nutrition for Wellness - Psoriasis Protocol. I’ll put my personal profile in this group so you know we are for real and I’ll also tag Rusty.

Have faith in us the way I did with Rusty. It’s all in our groups to see. Bruce, who I’ve tagged at the top, was a family physician of 30 years. He is with us to make sure any supplements and their dosages don’t interact with any medication you may be taking.

We believe supplementing your diet with the proper nutrients in proper, therapeutic amounts, should be a top priority to promote optimum health and the first line of defense against psoriasis.

So feel free to contact me and Rusty and if needed, Bruce is available to help as well.

Kind regards John Fori.