Sometimes eating the most healthy food you can find will not provide your body with all the material it needs to function at its best all the time. This will be evident by the way that your psoriasis keeps hanging around. In this case, you might consider taking dietary supplements.

Finding the right supplements to help with your psoriasis will require observation, research and commonsense experimentation, much like finding the right diet. Because of vast differences in genetic constitutions and living situations people are bound to react differently to certain dietary supplements.

** When considering supplemental intake for yourself (no matter how natural it is) be sure to ask your doctor about potential side effects as well as appropriate dosages.  Certain supplements can hinder other psoriasis therapies (such as PUVA), for example.

Free radicals (unstable cells floating around in your system) can cause cellular havoc within your body, including significant damage to your immune system.  A damaged immune system paves the way for psoriasis break-outs, so it’s a good idea to neutralize free radicals as quickly as possible.  Luckily, you can take antioxidant supplements that accomplish exactly that.   Antioxidant supplements include vitamin A, E, B2 and C, beta-carotene, selenium and zinc.

Herbal supplements (or any natural remedies) have also been used with huge success by those who are willing to take a few steps off the beaten pharmaceutical path.  One of the main benefits of herbal supplements is that they tend to help the human body do its job better (as opposed to stomping all over the body’s natural processes to solve one particular health issue).

Some naturally occurring supplements that have been known to improve psoriasis include: St. John’s wort (the most unattractive name for a supplement ever), fish oil, primrose oil, burdock root, figwort, grape seed, yellow dock and cayenne pepper.