Hello Green Grany,
nice to meet you here
I couldn't talk about the diet in the other forum
and it is so sad because there are so many with the same condition
My husband did so many changes in his way of eating and I can't complain
but he wouldn't do it until ho got so sick and scared.
I used to give him a big salad with each super because he had some arthritis problems some years ago, which diseapered completely after he changed diet ( tried to follow the zone diet which is close to the Meditarian diet ).
but later on due to stress and him craving for chips and sweets
it started all over this time much worse , with involving his eyes.
I think he is doing considerably well becuase he is back to work
working fulltime. Would like to see faster reducing of prednison, but
we take it easy this time, and if he recovers there will be another battle to get of the prednison completely and kick on the adrenals again.
http://pals2u.tripod.com/id22.htmlI receintly started search for a good brain diet, my husband hands shaking quite lot and I was woring about elsheimer or ms or other disease,
I think relaxation and exercise plays a big role of beeing healthy again
this is a part of the link about
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It took Khalsa many years to discover the cortisol connection. He was puzzled by the strong relationship between stress (such as chronic pain) and cognitive dysfunction that he observed in his patients. Very intelligent people would become markedly less cogent as their stress mounted. He also points out that the modern world creates unprecedented levels of neurological stress. We are constantly battered by noise of all sorts not only the noises of modern urban living, but also information overload. Add to this the relentless struggle to survive and succeed. We are simply trying to do too many things, sometimes all at the same time (proudly calling it multi-tasking rather than brain-destroying stress).
Chronic stress did indeed turn out to be a very important cause of mental decline. Conversely, keeping cortisol levels low apparently preserves brain health and cognitive skills.
As Khalsa puts it, the more damage to the brain a person has suffered, the harder it is for him or her to turn off stress. When this happens, the person reacts even more strongly to stress and therefore suffers even more damage to the shut-off mechanism.
For many years you may have been pushing yourself through one stressful day after another, and this has probably physically damaged both your memory and your fluid intelligence. When you endure stress on a regular basis, you chronically over secrete brain-destroying cortisol
Unfortunately, when cognitive function declines, people tend to push themselves even harder, to compensate for the decline. Thus a degenerative cycle is created. No wonder midlife professionals so often suffer from burnout. It is a classic case of brains fried in cortisol
After prolonged exposure to stress, we often feel emotionally numb. Even when the stress is over, we can hardly feel any pleasure. We are burnt out.
The destructive kind of stress involves a feeling of being overwhelmed and unable to cope. The resulting irritability, depression, inability to concentrate and think clearly and feelings of inadequacy and helplessness lead to even more stress. If such severe stress continues, the result is chronic high levels of cortisol, with devastating consequences for the brain, including memory loss and overall cognitive decline.
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This is pretty much what has happend to my husband,
I suggest to read it
the bad cravings he had through the increased cortisol/ brought the GCA I think and a high inflamation ( chips and sweets )
and I notice when he has a lot of stress now even with the good diet he gets more headaches . Prednison increasing his cortisol
so I woud like him to be off soon. Hopefully one day.
If you put together that most of us are stressed out all the time, having a bad nutrition and more and more poluted environment
no wonder that so may are sick.
I think it is scary with the new generation / kids eat way too much process food and ton of sugars today , they will be all sick by turning 20
If you love your husband get him of the sugar !
You can use stevia, make him your own cookies from oat meal
I would use coconut virgin oil, or butter , and rasins,
I sometimes prepare for my husband a litle cake which I don't bake
or you can roll some balls,
I use ripe banana , mash it, mix with rasins, soaked oatmeal, if i need flowers I use brown rice flower , you can put any dry fruit, it will be more sweet, or use dates, or almond flowers, you can put some nuts in it if you wish and make the bals, or form a cake roll in shreded coconut and put in the fridge,
than slice later
psoriasis is an antiinflamatory illness , if you change his diet he might get rid of it
our oldest sone had one time a very bad rash, the doctor figure out that it was psoriasis and was given a stereoid cream,
I mostly force the kids to eat healthy too , it is 6 months now and he didn't have any flare yet.
you should get him off the bad fats, the worst one are the vegetable hydrogenated oils , they are omega 6 and cause a lot of inflamation, they are in any baked ,prepared food , in cookies, in salad dressings, soups etc. Use rather virgin olive oil.
I like to watch Dr. Oz show, even kids watching it now. There is always something new.
I hope you get better and do not stop looking and reading
I agree this forume has interesting links ,
even I don't agree totaly with the diet
what side efects do you have from prednison ?
Adri
but it is slowly getting better. 
What kind of pain were you dealing with?
