I'm taking liveraid from calivita, it's avaliable in europe don't know other continents. It has all ingridients for liver detox and the plant sylmarin not artichocke. I'm using them for about nearly 2 month. No great results in the meantime, there is just a better control in face redness around nose but scalp is the same full of flaky plates and hair is dropping off and thinning. Before that I done 6 liver flushes, there were some smaller stones and on the 5th and 6th there weren't any stones just some slug and sand.
Right know I'm focused on liver but I think the real problem is damaged gut, not necessarily leaky gut but some part that is not function properly. I tried drinking aloe vera for 3 month and for 1 month glutamine. Both are great for gut but no results, and if there were any they are small. Biggest results I have achieved is going mainly raw vegetables and throwing bread and all other wheat products. In a week redness and itching was gone. I had to cancel that cause I was loosing weight very fast.
Yesterday I started oil pulling with sunflower oil and I can see there's something happening cause SD on my face got pretty bad and before that it was mostly clean. My food regime hasn't changed, sugar, milk and junk food is forbidden to me. So we will see how it goes in a month or two now I know at least it's working.
Your hair will grow back, don't worry about it, it is best indicator of inner health. I guess the body tries to get rid of toxins that's why it's dropping off and thinning (at least in my case it first started thinning and than dropping). Some hardcore vitamins like twinlab stopped that but as soon as stop taking pills everything goes back to old.
It's definitely connected to toxins and liver cause great example is I don't sleep for 7-8 hours only 2 or 3 than my symptoms on face get worse! Same thing if I get full sleep and my face is clean in the morning by the evening it gets worse meaning liver just can't handle that amount of toxins. Now the big question where the hell all that toxins are coming from? Well only answer to that is gut, it's like a closed circle. Gut leaks toxins to blood, liver cleans the blood and sends toxins back to gut and so on and on.I have a theory on this. We have to compare us with Psoriasis sufferes, what's the main difference between them and us? They can have it on whole body and we can only at certain places where oild glands are. Psoriasis and SD are beeing solved through diet and detox but they look and act similar and no one understands connection and what is real problem. To me it looks like in Psoriasis they have complete system failure for managing toxins and in our case everything else failed (kidney, gut, lymph nodes) except liver. Liver doesn't know how to handle that extra toxins load so she sends toxins to skin, specfically to oil gland part. Why there? Cause there lives fungus Pityrosporum ovale which eats oil and with it toxins! Of course immune system is lowered or even turned off in that parts so Pityrosporum ovale can multiply itself so they can eat more toxins! That's why antifugal shampoo work! They are killing Pityrosporum and the redness goes away, Pyto destroyed but immune is still off on that parts cause toxins are still in us!And is you don't shampoo pyto comes back on that parts. That's why steroids work, they are crusing that immune border and immune takes over that isolated part which has been left over for Pityrosporum. Steroids are not supressing immune system but that immune border so again if you stop using them border is reestablished and pyto comes back and colony starts growing again and process of detox can continue.That's too great example how immune system is powerful hwne you put steroid cream in a minutes redness and itching is gone cause immune is destroying them not antifungal component. This clearly shows how it's easy for body to handle that fungal problems especially on skin main problem is why it wont' do it, now you now it. SD is most brilliant way to get rid of toxins. Doctors say that immune is fighting against them which is BS, cause if that were truth than every part of skin with oil glands would be affected and there are very strict boundaries of redness and affected skin are which is not coincidence, for example you have it on one place on head and other if just fine. As there are more toxins in our body bigger area of skin is immune isolated so Pityrosporum can enjoy and that is shown at the begining when a small area are opened and we do not notice it and with time area becomes lager and larger until it comes to our face but than it's too late. But than again I'm not a doctor and this could be completely wrong but I know everything in nature isn't wrong especially our bodys which are perfect machines, main problem when we are born we don't get instruction manual for it :)
Cheers and sorry for my speeling and not so great english:( but for ordinary people like us is enough :)

Can you talk to a person without getting nasty when they disagree with you?

Good to know that there is a lot of bs out there on the internet. Without you telling me that I wouldn't have known.

And considering that I have been to a couple of dermatologists with this condition and told what I have and had it explained to me and it agrees with what is posted on the medical sites on the net and with each other, it makes them a lot more credible than you.

Sure got you riled up though. You must have been shaking with emotion when you wrote that.

What do I deserve for this post? A slap in the face and a kick in the ass? lol....