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[Kat]

Well…
On the one side … if you are overweight, the relation that could be negative for psoriasis is a disbalance in your energy system, thus affecting the immune system, thus affecting your skin or joints.
As there is a statistical relationship, it could be that the cause of the psoriasis is somewhere in your cells that produce energy.  This is a theory that I know from the doctor who has treated me years ago, and it is a theory that at least is logical..

The other way around… If you have psoriasis… you are not only suffering physically, but also mentally/psychologically… result may be that you want to be nice for yourself and start overeating, that is at least what I can imagine myself.
If you are sad, you will want to reward yourself to feel happy again.


So, me, yes, I do see the possible relationships both ways.

I do understand that one can overeat by being depressed as eating can be a comfort.... but then the relationship is between eating and depression, not necessarily psoriasis.  At least that's how I think and for no reason really. 

Not totally sure what you mean by "cells that produce energy" and psoriasis.  So I looked around a bit and found this:

"Cellular energy is essentially the ability for your cells to take in food and air and convert them into usable energy to function. It is required to perform almost everything we do, from sneezing and digesting to walking and blinking. This energy is also required for the cell to self-repair"

So I see where it is important but it seems to be important to everything that we do, which of course supports the case that cellular energy is involved in a LOT.  I also read:

"Cellular energy homeostasis is a crucial function of oxidative tissues but becomes altered with obesity"

So that supports that being obese could add to the problem and that makes sense... but that also supports that being obese (and overweight to a lesser extent) is problematic to almost every illness/disease a person could have.  Which is probably true to some degree 

I was curious if there was a direct link to being overweight and having psoriasis as most people here seem to be a healthy weight and of course people who aren't overweight still get psoriasis and other diseases/illnesses.

And I've already hit post but perhaps Fred you could move this to a thread called psoriasis and weight? I don't want to hijack this thread. Thought about it a bit late though.