Eczema, a chronic inflammatory skin condition, is characterized by red, itchy, and inflamed skin. While it can range from mild irritation to severe flare-ups that interfere with daily life, the root cause often lies beneath the surface. Addressing eczema requires a comprehensive approach, particularly focusing on gut health, immune balance, and dietary supplementation. In this article, we’ll delve into the connection between eczema and gut health, the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and the benefits of quantum energy healing.
The Skin: A Window to Your Inner Health
Your skin is your body’s largest organ and acts as a vital barrier against environmental factors. However, it also serves as a mirror for your internal health. Chronic conditions like eczema are often a sign of underlying imbalances, including gut dysbiosis, immune dysfunction, and nutritional deficiencies.
As you age, changes in your skin—such as dryness, increased sensitivity, or slow wound healing—may indicate issues like inflammation or oxidative stress. Recognizing these signs and addressing them holistically is key to improving skin health and overall well-being.
Eczema: A Multi-Faceted Issue
Eczema is not merely a superficial problem but a manifestation of deeper health issues, often tied to gut health. Common contributors to eczema include:
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Leaky Gut Syndrome: This condition occurs when the gut lining becomes permeable, allowing toxins and undigested food particles to enter the bloodstream and trigger inflammation.
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Gut Dysbiosis: An imbalance in gut bacteria can lead to chronic inflammation, exacerbating skin conditions.
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Food Sensitivities: Foods like gluten, dairy, and soy can worsen inflammation and trigger eczema flare-ups.
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Stress
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Arisal of an autoimmune disease
Healing from Within: A Holistic Approach
1. Eliminate the bad: Eliminate inflammatory foods and toxic factors.
Certain foods and environmental toxins alter gut health, worsening eczema symptoms. The goal is to eliminate or reduce these triggers:
Gluten: Present in wheat and other grains, gluten can damage the intestinal lining and promote inflammation. For many individuals, avoiding gluten is critical to managing eczema.
Cereals: Grains such as wheat, oats, and rice contain proteins that can also damage the intestinal lining and promote inflammation, particularly in individuals with gluten sensitivity.
Legumes: Beans and lentils contain compounds that can irritate the digestive tract and contribute to intestinal dysbiosis.
Gut infections, such as yeast overgrowth, SIBO, or viruses (e.g., Herpes Simplex or Epstein-Barr virus), can also contribute to gut healing. These infections can further impair immune function, leading to chronic inflammation and aggravating skin conditions such as eczema.
2. Restoring what's missing: Supplements for gut healing and digestion
In addition to dietary changes, supplements play a key role in promoting optimal bowel function and supporting eczema healing.
The most important supplements are:
Digestive enzymes: They help break down food more efficiently, reducing digestive effort and improving nutrient absorption, particularly for those with compromised intestinal health.
Betaine HCL: This supplement increases stomach acid production, improving food breakdown and nutrient absorption.
Supplements that combine gut-restoring substances: Supplements that combine root herbs and gut-healing compounds such as betaine HCL promote intestinal repair, essential minerals reduce inflammation and restore a healthy intestinal lining within a few months.
3. Replenishing healthy bacteria: Probiotics
Restoring the balance of beneficial bacteria in the gut is essential for overall health and management of eczema. Specific probiotics indicated by an experienced naturopath rebalance the flora.
Probiotics improve gut flora, promote digestion and strengthen the immune system, resulting in reduced skin inflammation.
4. Repairing the gut: Nutritional support for gut health.
Reconstruction of the intestinal lining requires specific nutrients. These include:
L-glutamine: An amino acid that helps repair the intestinal lining and reduce intestinal permeability, L-glutamine is critical for healing leaky gut and managing eczema.
Bone broth and collagen: These nutrient-rich foods are rich in amino acids such as glycine, which are essential for gut repair.
Omega-3 fatty acids: Contained in fish oil and some plant sources, omega-3s help reduce systemic inflammation, including stress-related inflammation.
5. Integrating traditional treatments: Chinese medicine and energy medicine
In addition to modern dietary supplements and modifications, traditional healing practices can be incredibly valuable in addressing eczema from a holistic perspective. Chinese medicine, particularly custom decoctions, has been used for centuries to balance the body and treat conditions such as eczema.
For 5 years I have been creating custom decoctions and sending them to my clients all over the world. They are tested and certified safe and pesticide-free. They are made from herbs, roots, minerals or other substances (which are part of the Chinese Materia Medica) specifically designed to address the root causes of eczema by focusing on balancing the skin barrier i.e. our immune system.
These decoctions are carefully crafted to restore energy flow in the body, reduce inflammation and ensure skin healing.
I also make use of energy medicine called quantum healing. It is becoming known for its ability to eliminate internal blocks that prevent us from wanting to heal, external blocks including family blocks and tendencies toward certain diseases to get to feel overall well-being by approaching life's challenges from a different point of view, improving our daily perception and attitude.
Quantum healing acts at a deeper level than all the therapies mentioned above, helping to rebalance the body's energy field that expands 2 meters around us. This can promote not only physical healing, but also emotional, mental and spiritual well-being, often interconnected with chronic conditions such as eczema.
By focusing on gut health, eliminating inflammatory foods, incorporating healing methods ranging from functional medicine, to traditional medicine such as Chinese medicine and quantum healing, together using targeted supplements, it is possible to restore balance and get rid of eczema symptoms.
Recommendations on eczema supplements and immune support
In order to heal, one must rely on a supplement expert because not all supplements are the same. For a long time in the field there have been acquisitions of large pharmaceutical firms and this has meant that there are few quality supplements as the production standards of most supplements are not adequate. In fact, supplements if they are synthetic are accepted poorly by our body. So knowing which supplement is useful is not enough. We need to preference who produces it so as not to waste funds unnecessarily.
To support the immune system and manage eczema flare-ups, consider these immune-boosting supplements:
ImmuFight™ (Solaray): Helps support immune function and fight infection, ideal for those with chronic eczema.
Optimized Quercetin (Life Extension): A powerful antioxidant that reduces inflammation and boosts immune health.
Wormwood (Kroeger Herb Co.): Known for its antimicrobial properties, wormwood promotes the elimination of harmful bacteria and parasites.
Cat's Claw (Nature's Answer): A powerful anti-inflammatory herb that supports the immune system, useful for chronic eczema.
Pau D'Arco (NOW Foods): This herb fights inflammation and infection, proving useful for eczema.
Healing eczema from within
Eczema might have seemed like a skin-only problem, but its root causes lie much deeper. Eczema and high IgE antibody levels are alarm bells of a more serious problem.
With a comprehensive approach that addresses diet, supplements, lifestyle, and energy medicine, it is possible to heal eczema from the inside out, improving not only the skin but also the health of the whole body for an overall well-being that makes us happy and saves us money on health expenses. Every step you take toward prevention is a step you take toward life.
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