20/10/2021
📍What Does Your Thyroid Have to Do With Eczema and Psoriasis?
Written by Jennifer Fugo, MS, CHC✍️🧑⚕️
If you’re suffering from dry, itchy, flaky skin or have psoriasis or eczema, it’s likely you’re not thinking about your thyroid. Why would you? When you’re dealing with something as conspicuous and painful as a rash, it’s difficult to think about anything other than getting rid of it on the surface.
Believe me, I know. Before I went gluten-free and healed my gut, I suffered from chronic eczema and other skin issues. I would have done almost anything to get rid of the embarrassing rashes and visible inflammation.
Now I know that eczema, psoriasis, and other skin rashes are never just skin deep.
And for the estimated 20 million people in the US who suffer from thyroid disease, the prevalence of skin rashes is even higher.
Let’s dig into some of the ways your thyroid, your gut, and your skin are related, and where to start on your healing journey if you suffer from thyroid skin rashes.
📍1. Low thyroid function affects your gut. And your gut impacts your skin.
You simply cannot have healthy gut function with a poorly functioning thyroid.
Among other things, thyroid hormones (TH) contribute to keeping tight junctions in the stomach and skin tight, so they stay sealed and don’t let stray molecules in or out. TH also helps intestinal mucosa cells get to full maturity. When intestinal mucosa aren’t fully developed and tight junctions begin to loosen, you’ll begin to see symptoms like:
▶️Decrease in hydrochloric acid (gastric acid) production
▶️Leaky gut syndrome
▶️Food sensitivities
▶️Gut symptoms (ie. gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, nausea)
▶️Slow motility (that can lead to Small Intestine ▶️Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO))
▶️Fungal overgrowth
▶️Bacterial overgrowth
▶️Gut pathogens
▶️Brain fog
All of these symptoms make it tough for your body to process and excrete toxins. The more your body holds onto toxins, the more we begin to see the physical ramifications of this in the form of rashes and other skin issues.
Leaky gut and SIBO wreak havoc on your gut lining and can even trigger autoimmune diseases that includes dermatitis herpetiformis, vitiligo, psoriasis, dermatomyositis, lupus, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, and even eczema.
🌟Low thyroid function reduces blood flow to your skin.
Hypothyroidism reduces blood flow to your skin.
While your skin is an organ, it also happens to be of the lowest priority. And reduced blood flow to the lowest priority organ (your skin) means a couple of things according to acupuncturist Brie Wieselman, L.Ac.
▶️ First, nutrients and oxygen can’t properly flow to the skin cells to aid in detox, repair, and regeneration. As a result, the environment around your skin cells can become rather toxic and unhealthy. That certainly makes it difficult for healthy cellular turnover.
▶️And the cells themselves don’t have enough nutrients vital for healthy turnover (which happens about every 28 to 40 days). When you can’t make healthy new cells, that’s how you end up with unending skin rashes.
📍Second, when you have hypothyroidism, there are also less thyroid hormones in general to aid in cellular metabolism, which prevents the skin from releasing toxins properly.
When #1 (gut dysbiosis and a higher toxic burden on the inside) and #2 (decrease in blood flow inhibiting the skin’s natural detox capabilities) combine, it’s a perfect storm for a massive buildup of waste, which can trigger a myriad of skin issues, eczema and psoriasis just being two of them. There’s a reason that dry, itchy, brittle skin, hair, and nails are some of the first physical symptoms of hypothyroidism.
This is also the reason why slathering yourself in lotions and steroid creams rarely work. When you can’t shed old skin cells or excrete toxins properly, your body can’t create new, healthy skin cells either. Most lotions are just adding to the problem, making it harder to shed the old and let the new flourish.
❓How to Heal Your Thyroid Skin Rashes
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▶️If the underlying cause of your skin rash is related to a thyroid disorder, it’s important that you look at your healing with a holistic lens. Your thyroid regulates nearly every metabolic pathway in your body, affecting everything from your brain to your digestion to your skin.
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1️⃣Optimize Thyroid Function
I often tell clients that you can’t outsmart or out-work your thyroid. If your levels are not optimal (or close to there), it’s difficult to get your skin back on track since so much of its healthy function is tied to your thyroid.
You are advised to take postbiotics in order to heal the gut lining.
2️⃣Identify Your Food Triggers
The first line of defense when it comes to healing skin rashes is to identify your food triggers. Eliminating inflammatory and triggering foods will not only help short-term inflammation and flares, but will help heal your gut long-term as well.
Triggering foods can increase inflammation of your gut lining making it really hard to digest and assimilate nutrients from your food.
3️⃣Manage Stress to Banish Thyroid Skin Rashes
Besides sugary and processed foods, stress is enemy number one when it comes to healing thyroid function and skin rashes in general.
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