It’s not often that I receive an email that I want to share with others, but this came to my box today from one of my best friends and I think you might enjoy it, too!
Handbook for 2011
Health:
1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
5. Make time to pray.
6. Play more …

Tonight while shopping I saw a woman with vitiligo standing about 3 feet away from me. There was a man on her other side and I noticed that she caught a glance from him and immediately looked downwards while sliding her vitiligo covered hand into her coat pocket. (Does this sound familiar to you?)
I so wanted to lean over and tell her that he had smiled at her; that he wasn’t gawking at her vitiligo. But I knew all to well why she had done what she did. Immediately I …

It is my great pleasure to share with you some fantastic repigmentation results sent in by Bryn.
Hi everyone
Here are the photo’s of the recent repigmentation in one of my patches of vitiligo on my inner thigh. I used Ginkgo Biloba combined with ground piperine (using E45 as a Base Cream) and also using Narrow Band UVB handheld lamp.
This regimen appears to work for me, but obviously you all need to assess what risks you are prepared to take to achieve re-pigmentation. Also, its impossible for me to say with …

Repigmentation was seen in 40 of 56 patients (71%), with mean onset at 2 months. They concluded that: “The efficacy and safety of topical PGE2 make it a promising therapy for localized stable vitiligo.”

Wherever you live, at Loyola University Chicago we want to hear about your case of vitiligo. This helps us direct our research, and to find support for our current thoughts on progressive depigmentation.

U.S. National Institutes of Health to carry out the largest vitiligo research study ever undertaken, the international VitGene consortium genome-wide association study, aiming to identify susceptibility genes for generalized vitiligo

Our site has an abundance of information shared by the many readers from around the world.  Some leave comments about products they have tried, and others leave detailed information describing the experimental processes they are using to try and find a cure for vitiligo.though this useful information is readily accessible by either browsing each post or clicking a word in the tag cloud, it would be much simpler for everyone if we use the forum to communicate.  Take a moment now and check out the new forum http://vitiligocover.com/forum/
Adding …

A couple of weeks ago I told you about my dermatologist taking a 3 month break from my treatments so as to protect my skin. My main concern was whether the newly pigmented skin would encourage new pigmentation in the surrounding areas or if it would fade.
I haven’t been using the protopic or taking my vitamins, because i wanted to view the results without interference. I believe the new pigmentation is slowly fading. And I’m noticing that some of the areas that were previously pink (normally the precursor to pigmentation) …

Many of us wonder if vitiligo might be triggered by stress, and I have come across a study performed in 2003 by the Dermatological Institute of Italy. The results really surprised me.
The Study:
“Background: It has often been suggested that stress might trigger vitiligo. However, only one study supported this hypothesis, and no study explored the role of other personality or social factors.
Methods: Out-patients experiencing a recent onset or exacerbation of vitiligo (n = 31) were compared with out-patients with skin conditions in which psychosomatic factors are commonly were regarded as …

Last week my dermatologist determined that it was time to take a 3 month break from my xtrac laser treatments to keep me in the safe zone against the risk of skin cancer (wouldn’t it be nice if our body had the ability to protect us from sun over-exposure?).  Not only is this a great precaution, it’s also going to give us an opportunity to see: a) if my skin cells will be able to stimulate re-pigmentation on its own, and b) if my skin will retain all of the …