The Intoxication concept of psoriasis was first mentioned by a well-known osteopath John Pagano. Pagano studied psoriasis and the reasons of its development for more than 20 years. Pagano was the one to first connect the toxins in the bowels and intestines with the appearance of psoriatic plaques.

According to Pagano, when we consume some toxic substances, like alcohol, nicotine, preservatives and dyes in the food products, etc, and our liver or kidneys can not purify them, these toxins are being taken out of the body through our skin.

The question arises: there are millions of people that consume toxins with food, drinks, medicines, smoking etc. Why do only 2-3% of them develop psoriasis?

Well, the answer according to Pagano is that the walls of the intestines and duodenum of people with psoriasis are too thin. Pagano calls it "the syndrome of a non-hermetic bowel". And so the consumed toxins, which were not purified by the liver or the kidneys, find their way out through the skin of the person with psoriasis.

If we look deeper into this process, we will find out that people with psoriasis are not the only ones with the thin intestinal lining. So why only in them do psoriatic plaques develop on the skin, which do not appear on the skin of other people with the "non-hermetic bowel" syndrome?

Here comes into play another factor - the autoimmune aggression that takes places in the body of the people with psoriasis. In the places where the toxic substances come out through the skin, the body of the people with psoriasis starts attacking the skin cells, through which the toxins found their way out.

A person keeps consuming the toxic substances (with bad foods like cola drinks, marinated, fried, spicy foods, alcohol, smoking, breathing in polluted air, taking some medicines etc), the liver and kidneys keep failing to purify these toxic substances, the substances find their way into the blood flow of the person with psoriasis through the thin lining of the bowels and duodenum, and the body keeps attacking the skin cells, which let out these toxins. This is a vicious circle.

So what is advised in order to break this vicious circle? Pagano and others say to adapt a healthy diet, quit smoking and alcohol consumption, as well as to start doing a colon hydro-therapy (cleaning your lower intestine with water). Another thing that may help is regular bowel movements.

The Intoxicating theory of psoriasis has loads of followers around the globe. It used to be especially popular a couple of decades ago. Then it was forgotten, and nowadays it has started becoming more and more popular again.

Whether to believe in the Intoxicating theory of psoriasis or not is an individual choice, but one thing clearly makes sense: healthy diet, no smoking and very moderate alcohol consumption will help us not only to improve our overall wellbeing but also may help us to clear our skin from the psoriatic plaques.