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Heal Psoriasis is educational. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and it does not create a doctor–patient or practitioner–client relationship of any kind.

Psoriasis is a serious, lifelong immune-mediated disease. It is associated with psoriatic arthritis, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease, and depression. It needs a real clinician who knows your history and can examine you. Nothing on this site, in the book, or in any product sold here replaces that person.

Who wrote this

The author is not a physician, dermatologist, rheumatologist, dietitian, or licensed healthcare provider of any kind. He is someone who had severe psoriasis, was badly harmed by treatment for it, and spent years reading the research. That is the whole of his qualification, and it is stated plainly here on purpose.

What that means for you: this material is one person's synthesis of published research and one person's experience. It has not been peer-reviewed. It has not been tested in a clinical trial. Where the book cites a study, the study is real and you can go read it — but a citation is evidence for a mechanism, not proof that a protocol built on that mechanism will work for you.

Never stop or change a prescribed medication because of anything you read here

This is the most important sentence on this page.

Do not stop, reduce, taper, or skip a biologic, methotrexate, ciclosporin, acitretin, a topical or oral steroid, or any other prescribed medication because of anything in this book, on this site, or in any tool or product sold here. Talk to the doctor who prescribed it.

Stopping some psoriasis treatments abruptly can trigger a severe rebound flare, including life-threatening forms of the disease. Withdrawal from systemic steroids in particular can precipitate generalised pustular psoriasis or erythroderma, which are medical emergencies. Tapering, if it is ever appropriate for you, is a supervised medical decision.

Where the book or the workbook discusses reducing a medication, it is describing a conversation to have with your prescriber. It is not an instruction, and it is not permission.

Get medical help now — not later — if any of these happen

Redness and scaling spreading over most of your body, especially with fever, chills, or feeling unwell (possible erythrodermic psoriasis — an emergency)
Pustules appearing across large areas of skin (possible generalised pustular psoriasis — an emergency)
A hot, swollen, severely painful joint, particularly with fever (possible septic arthritis — an emergency; this is not psoriatic arthritis and must be excluded urgently)
Any new joint pain, stiffness, or swelling that has lasted more than a few weeks — the window in which joint damage from psoriatic arthritis can be prevented is short, and it does not reopen
Signs of infection while on a biologic or other immunosuppressant
Thoughts of harming yourself. Psoriasis carries a genuinely raised risk of depression and suicidal thinking. In the US or Canada, call or text 988. In the UK or Ireland, call Samaritans free on 116 123, any time. Elsewhere, contact your local emergency number.

Do not wait to see whether a protocol fixes it.

Supplements are drugs

The book discusses supplements at specific doses. Supplements interact with medications, with each other, and with surgery. Take the list to your doctor or pharmacist before you start. Some specific interactions that matter, called out here because they are easy to miss:

Omega-3 (fish oil) at high dose plus aspirin, warfarin, clopidogrel, a DOAC, or any other blood thinner raises bleeding risk. High-dose omega-3 also matters before surgery or a dental procedure. If you are on any antiplatelet or anticoagulant, do not add high-dose fish oil without clearing it with your prescriber.
Potassium supplements plus an ACE inhibitor, an ARB, or a potassium-sparing diuretic such as spironolactone can cause dangerously high potassium. This combination needs a blood test, not a guess. Drug names ending in -pril (ramipril, lisinopril) and -sartan (losartan, valsartan) are the common ones.
St John's wort, high-dose vitamin E, high-dose vitamin A or its derivatives, and berberine all have significant interaction profiles. So do several others in the book.
If you are on a biologic or another immunosuppressant, discuss any immune-modulating supplement with your prescriber before starting it.

The book itself states that several supplements are contraindicated in pregnancy and directs you to your OB-GYN. Take that seriously.

Fasting is not for everyone

The book includes fasting protocols. Fasting is not appropriate, and can be dangerous, if you:

are pregnant or breastfeeding
have or have ever had an eating disorder, or a disordered relationship with food
have type 1 diabetes, or type 2 diabetes managed with insulin or a sulfonylurea (fasting while on these can cause severe hypoglycaemia — the medication must be adjusted by a doctor, never by you)
are underweight, malnourished, elderly and frail, or recovering from illness or surgery
are under 18
take a medication that must be taken with food, or whose dose depends on food intake

Refeeding after a prolonged fast is itself a medical risk (refeeding syndrome — dangerous shifts in phosphate, potassium, and magnesium). Anyone fasting beyond short daily windows should be doing it with medical supervision, not from a book or a web tool.

Where the book gives conflicting guidance on fasting eligibility between chapters, follow the stricter version, and ask your doctor.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding, and children

The protocol as written is not designed for pregnancy or breastfeeding, and several of its components are specifically inappropriate then. If you are pregnant, planning a pregnancy, or breastfeeding, treat everything here as background reading for a conversation with your OB-GYN and dermatologist — not as a plan to follow.

Nothing here is intended for children. Paediatric psoriasis is real and common, and it is managed differently. This site and its tools are for adults, and are not directed to anyone under 18.

About the tools

The interactive tools on this site are educational aids that restate and organise information from the book. They are not medical devices. They do not diagnose anything.

Screening tools screen. A screener suggesting you should get assessed is a prompt to book an appointment; a reassuring result is not an all-clear and never rules anything out.
Trackers record what you type. They do not interpret your disease.
No tool on this site calculates a personalised medication or supplement dose. Where a dose appears, it is the book's published figure being restated, not a recommendation calculated for you.
Lab interpretation tools explain what a marker generally means. Only your doctor can read your results in the context of you.

About results, numbers, and stories

The outcome figures that appear in the book — percentages of clearing at various stages — are the author's own observations of his own case and his reading of the literature. They are not the results of a clinical trial, they are not an average across patients, and they are not a prediction for you. No controlled trial of this protocol has been conducted.

Psoriasis fluctuates on its own. It remits and relapses for reasons that are often unclear. Improvement that follows a change is not proof the change caused it.

Individual results vary enormously. Some people will get no benefit. Nothing here is a promise, a guarantee, or a claim that any outcome will occur.

Nobody is claiming a cure

Psoriasis has no cure. The book does not claim one, and neither does this site. "Heal" here refers to addressing contributing factors and pursuing remission — periods with little or no active disease — which is a genuine and recognised goal in psoriasis care, and is not the same thing as being cured.

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This site may link to books, products, tests, and services from other companies, and may earn a commission on some of those links, at no additional cost to you. A commission never changes what gets recommended, and any page carrying such a link says so.

We do not control and are not responsible for third-party sites, products, or the advice of any practitioner you find through them.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the author, Adam Blackburn, accepts no liability for any loss, injury, or damage arising from the use of, or reliance on, this site, the book, the tools, or any product sold here. You use this material at your own risk and take responsibility for your own decisions.

Nothing in this disclaimer excludes or limits liability where it cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

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