Why Coffee Enemas are part of my Eczema & Psoriasis Healing Protocol
If you're following my journey healing from severe eczema and psoriasis, you'll have seen that I updated my protocol to include daily coffee enemas. This will sound crazy to some people, and it did to me initially. However, there's actually a compelling case for their use in speeding up the healing process.
There’s actually a compelling case for using coffee enemas in a systemic healing protocol — especially if you believe eczema and psoriasis are downstream effects of deeper dysfunction (like gut issues).
Why I’m Even Looking at the Liver
If your gut is compromised — if you have intestinal permeability, endotoxin exposure, dysbiosis — your liver becomes the next organ in the chain.
Every toxin absorbed from the gut passes through the liver first via the portal vein.
If that load is high and chronic, the liver is constantly working to:
- Neutralize endotoxins
- Process inflammatory byproducts
- Metabolize hormones
- Manage oxidative stress
If that system is overwhelmed, inflammation doesn’t just stay in the liver.
It shows up systemically.
And for some of us, it shows up in the skin.
So the real question becomes:
What if supporting liver detox capacity reduces systemic inflammation enough to calm the skin?
The Glutathione Argument (This Is the Big One)
Glutathione is the body’s master antioxidant.
It’s central to:
- Phase II liver detoxification
- Neutralizing oxidative stress
- Regulating immune balance
- Protecting tissues from inflammatory damage
Chronic inflammatory conditions — including autoimmune diseases — are often associated with depleted glutathione levels.
You’ll often hear the claim that coffee enemas increase glutathione activity by "600%." That number gets thrown around a lot.
If coffee enemas meaningfully increase glutathione S-transferase activity in the liver, that could theoretically:
- Improve detox capacity
- Reduce oxidative stress
- Lower inflammatory signaling
- Ease immune overactivation
Why I Quit Drinking Coffee — But Started Using It This Way
This is the ironic part. I quit coffee to maximize eczema & psoriasis healing.
I removed coffee from my diet because I believe it was:
- Increasing cortisol
- Driving sympathetic dominance
- Disrupting sleep
- Likely irritating my gut
- Adding in extra variables
In hindsight, quitting coffee was clearly the right decision in my case.
But a coffee enema is physiologically different than drinking coffee.
It’s about portal vein exposure to specific compounds in coffee that may stimulate bile flow and glutathione pathways — without the same digestive stress or caffeine spike.
I’m using it as a therapeutic intervention rather than a stimulant.
Bile Flow and Toxin Recirculation
Another piece of this that I find compelling:
Bile is one of the main ways the body eliminates toxins.
If bile flow is sluggish, toxins can be reabsorbed in the intestine (enterohepatic recirculation).
In a compromised gut, that loop may be even more problematic.
Some practitioners argue that coffee enemas:
- Stimulate bile production
- Increase bile flow
- Promote elimination
- Reduce toxin reabsorption
If that reduces the overall inflammatory burden on the immune system, the skin could theoretically calm down.
Why I’m Willing to Experiment
My current eczema and psoriasis symptoms are so severe and life altering that I'm willing to hear "crazy" out. But the more research I've done and natural healing testimonials I've seen, I'm starting to think it's not crazy at all.
I've been burned so far by traditional medical approaches. My doctor initially gave me an oral antibiotic that caused a rebound effect that was far worse than the initial skin problem. I've had topical steroid withdrawal before - no one told me that was a possibility. Now I'm currently dealing with a nasty rebound from coming off of prednisone. Almost every traditional medical decision made at this point has hurt more than helped. I'm very jaded and skeptical at this point of the traditional treatment approaches for eczema and psoriasis.
And I've seen numerous natural healing stories at this point that point to the gut as the central issue for eczema and psoriasis. I'm convinced that my entire focus at this point should be on promoting gut health and supporting my body's detox pathways as much as possible right now.