Effective digestion requires time and energy.  If you spend too much energy being stressed out, then you won’t leave enough energy for your digestive system process food and distribute the nutrients your body needs.  Lacking nutrition will lead to a deterioration of your overall health and thus open up the door for your psoriasis to worsen.

The way I see it, if you’re going to the trouble of eating food, you might as well allow your body to digest it.  Then, the more your body is able to assimilate and distribute the nutrients it needs, the better equipped it will be to battle off psoriasis (or any other disease for that matter).

This discussion about proper digestion goes along the general belief that, if you allow your bodily systems to run their course unhindered, then you may be able to eliminate psoriasis altogether.

Stress can be your worst enemy in your efforts to stave off psoriasis because it redirects your energy away from basic bodily functions such as digestion, healing or rest.

Much of this is related to unhealthy adrenaline levels, which will throw your body out of wack.   When your brain decides that it’s time to be stressed out, it signals the adrenal gland to start producing adrenaline (you’ve heard of that probably).  Adrenaline acts as a red-alert for the rest of your body, so that it drops everything and gets ready to fight or flee from some perceived threat.  Thus, with adrenaline coursing through your veins, your body gives up trying to digest food.

Just from the perspective of digestion, it is obvious how excessive stress is self-defeating — it weakens the body and doesn’t really help you to function any better in the long run.

But try not to stress about it.

Continued:   How to Stress Less and Resist Psoriasis More