Is a heart-healthy diet good for psoriasis?
Eating a heart-healthy diet may make managing psoriasis symptoms easier. In this video, Ashley Koff, RD, explains how a heart-healthy diet includes essential fatty acids, which help reduce inflammation in the body.
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So what's beautiful is that a heart-healthy diet actually at its core is extremely healthy for our skin, is extremely healthy to promote optimal inflammation,
and our healthy inflammation response in the body. [MUSIC PLAYING]
It's important with any disease to remember that all the different parts of the body are interrelated, right? So somebody might have psoriasis and say, gosh,
why do I need to follow a heart-healthy diet? And at the core, it's because we need the whole all of our insides to be healthy so that we
don't have certain symptoms. And in this case, the symptoms of psoriasis. So what's beautiful is that a heart-healthy diet actually
at its core is extremely healthy for our skin, is extremely healthy to promote optimal inflammation, and our healthy inflammation response in the body.
So a heart-healthy diet is actually full a lot of great nutrients that can be helpful for psoriasis.
For example, a heart-healthy diet includes our essential fatty acids. The higher amount of our omega 3s.
That's going to also help to reduce inflammation in the body. Also, we want to make sure that we're getting those potent minerals, our potassium,
and our magnesium. And we also want to make sure that we're not having too much sodium. That's the heart-healthy part. But did that's actually great for the psoriasis
part too, because it helps to make sure that our body is extremely well hydrated and also that our inflammatory response
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