Leptin is a trigger for an inflammatory response in skin, so this is perhaps why obesity can trigger more severe psoriasis flares. A separate study last year (6) found that psoriasis patients who were taking glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists for type 2 diabetes showed a significant reduction in PASI scores, which are a measuring scale for the severity of psoriasis, with fewer markers for of inflammation in layers of the skin and reduced auto immune responses
Trigonelline reverses high glucose-induced proliferation, fibrosis of mesangial cells via modulation of Wnt signaling pathway
[55] One 2009 study with 26 pregnant women found that those taking 500 mg of L-carnitine during pregnancy, starting at week 13 of gestation through birth, normalized their levels of carnitine
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