How I help people understand vitiligo | Lee Thomas
How I help people understand vitiligo | Lee Thomas - When I was young,
I wanted to be on TV:
the lights, the cameras,
the makeup,
the glamorous life.
And...
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How I help people understand vitiligo | Lee Thomas - When I was young,
I wanted to be on TV:
the lights, the cameras,
the makeup,
the glamorous life.
And from my vantage point,
just outside of a military base in Lawton, Oklahoma,
I didn't make the distinction between TV reporter or actor.
It was all the same to me.
It was either,
"Reporting live from Berlin"
or "I shall attend her here and woo her with such spirit when she comes."
(Laughter)
It was all special,
it was all the spotlight,
and I just knew that it was for me.
But somewhere along my journey,
life happened.
Ah, much better.
(Applause)
I have a disease called vitiligo.
It started early in my career.
It's an autoimmune disorder.
It's where it looks like your skin is getting white patches,
but
How I help people understand vitiligo | Lee Thomas
How I help people understand vitiligo | Lee Thomas
it's actually void of color.
It affects all ethnicities,
it affects all ages,
all genders,
it's not contagious,
it's not life-threatening,
but it is mental warfare.
It's tough.
Now, I was diagnosed with this disease
when I was working on "Eyewitness News" in New York City.
I was in the biggest city in the country,
I was on their flagship station
and I was on their top-rated 5pm newscast.
And the doctor looked me right in the eye and said,
"You have a disease called vitiligo.
It's a skin disorder where you lose your pigment.
There is no cure, but there a-la-la-la-la".
Charlie Brown's teacher.
(Laughter)
He said there is no cure. All I heard was, "My career is over."
But I just couldn't give up.
I couldn't quit,
because we put too much into this.
And by "we" I mean Mr. Moss,
who sent me to speech and drama club instead of to detention,
or my sister who paid part of my college expenses,
or my mom,
who
simply gave me everything.
I would not quit.
So I decided to just put on makeup and keep it moving.
I had to wear makeup anyway. It's TV, baby, right?
I just put on a little more makeup, and everything's cool.
And that actually went very well for years.
I went from being a reporter in New
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York City
to being a morning show anchor in Detroit,
the Motor City.
And as the disease got worse,
I just put on more makeup.
It was easy.
Except for my hands.
See, this disease is progressive and ever-changing.
That means it comes and goes.
At one point, for about a year and a half,
my face was completely white.
Yeah, it trips me out too.
(Laughter)
Yeah.
And then, with a little help,
some of the pigment came back,
but living through this process
was like two sides of a coin.
When I'm at work and I'm wearing the makeup
or wearing the makeup outside, I'm the TV guy.
"Hey, how you doing everybody? Great."
At home without the makeup,
I'd take it off and it was like being a leper.
The stares, constantly staring at me,
the comments under their breath.
Some people refused to shake my
hand.
Some people moved to the other side of the sidewalk,
moved to the other side of the elevator.
I felt like they were moving to the other side of life.
It was tough,
and those were some tough years.
And honestly,
sometimes I just had to shelter in place.
You know what I mean?
Kind of just stay at home till I get my mind right.
But then I'd put my blinders back on,
I'd get back out there,
do my thing,
but in the process of doing that,
I developed this --
angry, grumpy demeanor.
Anger is an easy go-to,
and people would leave me alone,
but it just wasn't me.
It wasn't me.
I was allowing this disease to turn me into this angry, grumpy, spotted guy.
It just wasn't me.
So I had to change.
I knew I
could not change other people.
People are going to react and do what they gonna do.
But there was a cold hard reality as well.
I was the one
that was showing anger, sadness
and isolating myself.
It was actually a choice.
I was walking out the door every day
expecting the world to react with negativity,
so I just gave them that mean face first.
If I wanted change, the change had to start with me.
So I came up with a plan.
Two-parter, not that deep.
Number one: I would just let people stare,
drink it in, stare all you want,
and not react.
Because the truth is when I got this disease,
I was all up in the mirror staring at every new spot
trying to figure out what is going on.
So I needed to let other people
have that same opportunity
to get that visual understanding.
Number two:
I would react with positivity,
and that was simply a smile,
or, at the very least,
a nonjudgmental, kind face.
Simple plan.
But it turned out to be more difficult than I thought.
But over time,
things started to go OK.
Like this one time, I'm at the store and this dude is like staring at me,
like burning a hole in the side of my head.
I'm shopping, he's staring at me,
I'm going to the checkout, he's staring at me,
I'm checking out, he's on the other line checking out, he's staring at me,
we go to the exit, he's still staring at me,
so I see he's staring
and finally I turn to him and I go, "Hey buddy, what's up!"
And he goes ...
(Mumbles
nervously) "Hi!"
(Laughter)
Awkward.
So to relieve the tension, I say,
"It's just a skin disorder.
It's not contagious, it's not life-threatening,
it just makes me look a little different."
I end up talking to that guy for like five minutes.
It was kind of cool, right?
And at the end of our conversation, he says,
"You know, if you didn't have 'vitilargo'" --
it's actually vitiligo, but he was trying, so --
(Laughter)
"if you didn't have vitilargo, you'd look just like that guy on TV."
(Laughter)
And I was like, "Haha, yeah, I get that, I get that, yeah."
(Laughter)
So things were going OK.
I was having more good
exchanges than bad,
until that day.
I had a little time before work
so I like to stop by the park to watch the kids play.
They're funny.
So I got a little too close, this little girl wasn't paying attention,
she's about two or three years old,
she's running, she runs directly into my leg and falls down, pretty hard.
I thought she hurt herself,
so I reach out to try and help the little girl
and she looks at my vitiligo
and she screams!
Now kids are pure honesty.
She's like two or three.
This little girl, she wasn't trying to be mean.
She didn't have any malice in her heart.
This little girl was afraid.
She was just afraid.
I didn't know what to do.
I just took a step back and put my hands by my side.
I stayed in the house for
two weeks and three days on that one.
It took me a second to get my mind around the fact
that I scare small children.
And that was something that I could not smile away.
But I jumped back on my plan
and just put on my blinders,
started going back out.
Two months later, I'm in a grocery store reaching on the bottom shelf,
and I hear a little voice go, "You've got a boo-boo?"
It's like a two-year-old, three-year-old, same age, little girl,
but she's not crying,
so I kneel down in front of her
and I don't speak two-year-old so I look up at the mom,
and I say, "What did she say?"
And she says, "She thinks you have a boo-boo."
So I go, "No, I don't have a boo-boo, no, not at all."
And the little girl says,
"Duh-duh-hoy?"
And so I look to mom for the translation,
and she says,
"She thinks you're hurt."
And
I say, "No, sweetie, I'm not hurt at all, I'm fine."
And the little girl reaches out with that little hand
and touches my face.
She's trying to rub the chocolate into the vanilla
or whatever she was doing.
It was amazing!
It was awesome.
Because she thought she knew what it was,
she was giving me everything I wanted:
kindness, compassion.
And with the touch of that little hand,
she healed a grown man's pain.
Yee-ha.
Healed.
I smiled for a long time on that one.
Positivity is something worth fighting for,
and the fight is not with others --
it's internal.
If you want to make positive changes in your life,
you have to consistently be positive.
My blood type is actually B positive.
(Laughter)
I know, corny TV
guy dad joke,
my daughter hates it, but I don't care!
Be positive!
(Laughs)
A 14-year-old boy years ago --
this kid had vitiligo --
he asked me to show my face on television.
I wasn't going to do it,
we've been over this, I thought I was going to lose my job,
but the kid convinced me by saying,
"If you show people what you look like and explain this to them,
maybe they will treat me differently."
Boom! Blinders off.
I did a TV report,
got an overwhelming response.
So I didn't know what to do.
I took the attention and focused it back on the kid
and other people that have vitiligo.
I started a support group.
Pretty soon, we noticed "VITFriends"
and "V-Strong" support groups all over the
country.
In 2016, we all came together and celebrated World Vitiligo Day.
This past June 25,
we had over 300 people,
all in celebration of our annual event.
It was amazing.
(Applause)
Thanks.
Now, I'm not going to lie to you
and say it was quick or easy
for me to find a positive place living with this disease,
but I found it.
But I also got much more.
I became a better man,
the man I always wanted to be,
the kind of guy who can stand up in front of a room full of strangers
and tell some of the toughest stories in his life
and end it all with a smile,
and find happiness in the fact that you all just smiled back.
Thank you.
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Things Not To Say To Someone With Vitiligo - You look like a cow. Is it contagious?
You really can t go out looking like that. Ah, like Michael Jackson.
Woohoo.
They knew I was going to get this one. You look like a cow.
So my nickname at school... Oh you got this?
Cow hands. Cow and panda, because it was around my eyes.
Yes panda eyes, I have panda eyes. Zebra.
I ve had Zebra. You look like a Zebra.
Someone was like, Oh the ape is washing off.
Ooh. Is it contagious?
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Things Not To Say To Someone With Vitiligo
I say yes mate. Do you?
I say yes, start dancing, asking for hugs, asking for kisses and all sorts mate. Come
on. I hold on the handlebar on the bus, on the
train, people look at your hands and be like urgh .
I find that when people stare and walk off I get annoyed, because then that was a lack
of an opportunity for me to tell them what it is.
I get like a bit worried around summer because, it s like on my legs and my feet and that's
when you wear like & Sandals and stuff.
Sandals and stuff like that and people stare as if you ve got some kind of like &
Rabies or something. Yeah.
If you want to come up and ask my questions, mine would be &
Excuse me, what s happened to your face? And I would be like, Move, move.
Move. You re more like to catch a cold from me then
to even catch a tiny tiny bit of vitiligo. You re more likely to catch feelings.
Exactly.
Oh my God, what happened to you!
Things Not To Say To Someone With Vitiligo
Basically, my girlfriend only really dates
white guys. So I just kind of started fading away, just a little bit.
No it s not because of an acid attack, no it s not because I got burned really badly,
It s just because I was born with vitiligo. I ve had, Have you washed in bleach?
Sometimes it s tiring, I don t want to be the teacher everyday like, I already have
a visual difference, I already live the life that everybody
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else lives, have to go to work,
you know, the stresses of life and then on top of that. Sometimes I m just like this
is what it is, you can google it. Vitiligo, V-I-T-I-L-I-G-O. Like please, Google it.
Does it wash off in the shower? No it doesn t wash off in the shower and the
reason is, is because it s skin. It belongs to me.
Mate, I used to wish it did. Oh did someone throw mud at you, because you
skin is a �bit dirty. The thing is, you become cool with it because
it s literally your body. It does not wash off and it s not even unfortunate,
I m glad it doesn t. Yeah exactly. �
Because if it did, I d be like, Come back, come back to me.
Why don t you just bleach it all? If I was to lose all of my pigment, I d feel
like I m losing my identity as a black woman. �
Well no. Otherwise I d be all white, I d look like a,
some sort of,
Snowman. Polar bear Morgan Freeman. I think I d look
like. Oh wow. Ok.
I actually went through a phase of using skin lightening creams. Because I thought it would
fade my darker patches into my whiter skin. Imagine if you like get chemical burns, like
you ve done that and then, you ve then got irreplaceable damage. �
And it really burns your skin, you can feel it eating away at your skin, and then I was
like hello no, I m not doing this anymore, this is not right.
It s not natural
man. I m fabulous, ok.
You are fabulous. So that all the colour of the rainbow that
I am, I am just it. You re trying to change yourself, to make
yourself more acceptable, I think you re going down the wrong alley you know. And I think
the sooner that, we start to embrace. ��
Exactly. Exactly.
So is it everywhere? God, I d make you blush if I told you it was
everywhere. Yeah as if we need another reason for creepy
men to hit on us. I grew up with it on my hands, my feet, my
knees and I always said to myself Not my face, not my face. And now it s started to develop
quite rapidly on my face as
well. I ve got some on my hips and I think its dope.
Yes it s in my private areas, because I know you want to know.
You can t go out looking like that! Sorry this is how I look so I m going to have
to. Ooh, that was so quick.
You really shouldn t wear that you know. Don t you think you should put a bit of make-up
on? It shows too much of that thing.
What, am I meant to be putting like foundation on my feet now?
When I first got vitiligo, I tried to cover my hands with foundation. It was miff. Because
everything I touched, it left! Just leaving marks.
And when I have worn makeup I don t feel
like myself, I actually feel like a clown I m not
going to lie, it take a lot of coverage to cover up vitiligo.
So I used to cover up my vitiligo and i still do on occasions you know, because sometimes
I don t want it on full view. Or like my knees, I just got to powder my
knees guys before I go!
That s such a shame, because you could be so good looking.
Roll your eyes moment. Hey hold the phone! Hold the phone. Don t
even speak. Just look. I know, can you see us?
Yeah I used to literally wake up and be like, Oh man, why me? Like I just want to be like
other people. There s always going to be someone in the
world who doesn t think i m beautiful, that s fine, I m not here for everyone, I m here
for that one that thinks I m fabulous, that's myself. �
People say to me like, I didn t even notice it.
Oh no, that s bullshit, I m sorry. Exactly.
That s like being like, Oh I don t see colour. Come on dude, like rah! Alright I could be
so good-looking, but I m fantastically good looking, it s peak.
As in, it s another thing that s added, that you ve had to go through, and you ve come
out the other side, and you feel & Great.
Great, it s like, yeah I m a bomb ass bitch, because I ve got vitiligo.
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Vitiligo, likely meaning blemish, is a non-contagious skin condition that is defined by patches
of discoloration, or depigmentation.
Though vitiligo can affect any race or ethnicity, it tends to be most noticeable in people with
darker skin, like Canadian fashion model Winnie Harlow.
Vitiligo
Given the effect on a person’s appearance, pigment loss can really impact a person’s
quality of life.
The skin is divided into three layers--the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis.
The hypodermis is made of fat and connective tissue that anchors the skin to the underlying
muscle.
Just above is the dermis, which contains hair follicles, nerves and blood vessels.
And just above, the outermost layer of skin, is the epidermis.
The epidermis itself has multiple cell layers that are mostly keratinocytes -
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which are
named for the keratin protein that they’re filled with.
Keratin is a strong, fibrous protein that allows keratinocytes to protect themselves
from getting destroyed when you rub your hands through the sand at the beach.
Keratinocytes start their life at the deepest layer of the epidermis called the stratum
basale, or basal layer, which is made of a single layer of small, cuboidal to low columnar
stem cells that continually divide and produce new keratinocytes that continue to mature
as they migrate up through the epidermal layers.
But the stratum basale also contains another group of cells - melanocytes, which secrete
a protein pigment, or coloring substance, called melanin.
Melanin is actually a broad term that constitutes several types of melanin found in people of
differing skin color.
These subtypes of melanin range in color from black to reddish yellow and their relative
quantity and rate at which they are metabolized define a person’s skin color.
When keratinocytes are exposed to the sun, they send a chemical signal to the melanocytes,
which stimulates the melanocytes into making more melanin.
The melanocytes move the melanin into small sacs called melanosomes, and these get taken
up by newly formed keratinocytes, which will later metabolize the melanin as they
migrate
into higher layers of the epidermis.
Melanin then acts as a natural sunscreen, because its protein structure dissipates,
or scatters, UVB light--which if left unchecked can damage the DNA in the skin cells and lead
to skin cancer.
Melanocytes can also be found in the dermis, at the base of the hair follicle, and in the
eye where they help color hair and the iris.
In vitiligo, there’s a loss of melanocytes or an absence of their function.
Histologically, having less melanin in the epidermis
results in white depigmented patches.
These patches are classified by type.
There’s non-segmental vitiligo which is the more common type that affects any age
group, and it occurs at various locations that are mirrored on both sides of the body.
There’s also segmental vitiligo which mostly affects children, and occurs in segments along
a single spinal nerve typically on only one side of the body without crossing the midline.
The exact cause of melanocyte destruction isn’t known, but it does seem to be linked
to both genetic and environmental triggers.
In non-segmental vitiligo, there seems to be an autoimmune element - where immune cells
attack the melanocytes.
In segmental vitiligo,
there seem to be neural factors, where nerves release neurochemicals
that damage the melanocytes.
Other causes may be that the melanocytes get damaged by a buildup of toxic metabolites
as they make melanin or in other metabolic pathways.
One interesting observation is called the Koebner phenomenon, and it’s when vitiligo
develops in skin soon after there has been a trauma, like a cut, abrasion, or burn.
The main symptom of vitiligo is the irregular, round or oval shaped patches of depigmentation
appearing within normally pigmented skin.
The patches can range in size from
millimeters to centimeters and can sometimes expand and
merge with other patches over time.
The body hair and the iris may also be depigmented in affected areas.
Non-segmental vitiligo tends to affect the hands, forearms, neck, scalp, feet, and face;
while segmental vitiligo, tends to affect areas of skin near dorsal roots from the spinal
cord, particular in the face following the trigeminal nerve.
The diagnosis of vitiligo is based on the appearance of depigmented patches, but a skin
biopsy can also be done.
There are two main treatments.
When the affected area is small, cosmetic cover up and topical immune-suppressants can
be applied directly to skin.
When the affected area is large, systemic
immune-suppressants, UV phototherapy, skin-bleaching,
and in severe cases, skin grafts, can all be tried.
Whatever the course of therapy, sunscreen is recommended to prevent darkening of the
skin areas immediately surrounding and contrasting the depigmentation areas, and to reduce the
risk of skin cancer.
So, to recap: Vitiligo is a non-contagious condition where destruction of melanocytes
and loss of melanin production leads to areas of depigmentation on the skin.
Non-segmental vitiligo tends to affect the hands, forearms, neck, scalp, feet, and face;
while segmental vitiligo tends to affect areas
of skin near dorsal roots from the spinal
cord, particularly in the face following the trigeminal nerve.
For small areas, cosmetic cover up and topical immune-suppressants can be used.
For large areas, systemic immune-suppressants, UV phototherapy, skin-bleaching, and even
skin grafts, can be used.
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How to Cure Vitiligo Naturally | ARUNA EVAN - hey guys my name is Aruna Evan welcome
back to my channel and today I'm gonna
be talking about how I am currently
repigmentation a chirally I recently
received some private messages asking me
what I do to either cure my vitiligo
like what medications or treatments I
take and more specifically like how I'm
doing it naturally I think there are a
lot of like-minded people out there who
are like interested in not putting a
cocktail of like medicine in their
bodies or like exposing themselves to a
lot of artificial like light therapy and
things like that so I thought I would
share with you what I do that works
quick disclaimer I'm not a doctor and
what works for me may or may not work
for somebody
How to Cure Vitiligo Naturally | ARUNA EVAN
How to Cure Vitiligo Naturally | ARUNA EVAN
else but they're all
natural they're really good habits so
why not give them a try it's what I
figure the first thing I want to say
that really really worked for me and
this is sometimes a really hard pill to
swallow for people with vitiligo it
certainly was for me when I first
realized that I had to do it was that I
just had to accept the fact that I have
it and like not just accept the fact
that I have to battle it like literally
fully wholeheartedly accept the fact
that this is now a presence in my life
and that's not going to go away anytime
soon and I'm going to work with it
instead of against it basically so now
instead of hating my vitiligo I
basically check in with it every morning
it's kind of like my little litmus test
to tell me how I'm doing health-wise and
whether I'm going in the right direction
along with that is just like a really
positive attitude and outlook for the
future so I now do self affirmations but
before then I still had a positive
outlook about my vitiligo and I thought
well it doesn't matter if it grows or if
I successfully repigmentation z-- you
know that are either you know just as
difficult to struggle with as vitiligo
or maybe worse and it's just a part of
life I don't want to downplay the
struggle that goes along with having
vitiligo because it is a struggle but
you know if you put it in the
context of
like not feeling
alone and feeling like there are plenty
of other people out there who like deal
with things then it makes you feel like
you're just a part of this amazing
beautiful thing called humanity okay now
with vitiligo which is a stress linked
condition of the skin the name of the
game is stress reduction because stress
activates your immune system and your
immune system attacks your vitiligo so
whatever you can do to make sure that
your immune system doesn't have to
literally put on a shield and take up a
sword and get into the fight the better
it is for your repigmentation of your
skin so what I do is I sleep a lot I
make sure that I've curated a life in
which I can get the sleep that I need a
lot of my good practices have actually
allowed me to have more high quality
sleep
which is also REME Pegman ting my
skin so a lot of these work together but
you just want to make sure you're
getting at least seven to nine hours of
sleep depending on what you're able to
fit in and sometimes I know it sounds
really bizarre but sometimes I open my
eyes and I'm ready to pop out about at
6:00 a.m. but I know I only got six
hours of sleep I will close my eyes
literally and make myself go back to
sleep as a treatment for my vitiligo
like very specifically so yeah just you
know if you have to go to bed early if
you have to give up your favorite show
for one night and catch up on it later
like whatever it is do what you need to
do because it's one of the best
treatments for me it reduces my stress
so much and it is the one of the highest
impact things I can do for my vitiligo
all right the next one is meditation
meditation there are slew of studies I
won't link them down below
because at
this point I think most people realize
the power of meditation but it is
incredibly powerful incredibly
transformative and so great at reducing
stress I cannot recommend meditation
enough I actually made a video about how
meditation is helping to repigmentation
up and below okay next is exercise this
one's kind of sad
me right now because I have kind of a
shoulder injury that I'm working through
so I haven't been able to exercise for a
couple months now but exercise is
amazing and it sort of took all of my
efforts in terms of repayment ability a
new level and I started doing it it is
great for stress reduction great for
like just like mental well-being I felt
like when something happened you know
with my vitiligo if someone stared and
like didn't have a positive response to
it or something like that I was able to
handle it better because I was in a
better mind space so yeah I highly
highly
recommend exercise but I do have
to say that like with the exercise I had
to do the right amount of exercise
sounds really weird but exercise
actually does make your body a little
bit stressed so there are some stress
hormones that are released when you
exercise and I realized pretty early on
when I started exercising and becoming a
personal trainer that if I did too much
exercise or too much intensity too
quickly then my body actually showed me
what was happening with my hormones
through my vitiligo my vitiligo would
grow so you don't want to do too much
too fast to really go ham and do like
you know high-intensity interval cardio
training for like 45 minutes doing it
like tabata level which is like 20
seconds of like crazy crazy and then 10
seconds of arrest you know
without any
experience with exercise like that's
that's probably gonna make the vitiligo
grow because there are too many stress
hormones involved but if you ease
yourself into it and you take it with
the right like attitude which clearly I
didn't at first but I learned my lesson
then it'll be great for you too um the
next thing is what you couldn't assume
so like I realized that when I drink too
much
or you know it happens like you're out
with friends and you're having fun and
like it's a part of life but when I
drink too much like my vitiligo does
grow so now I don't drink as much and
when I do I know what I'm getting myself
into but also I drink a lot of water now
so it like flushes out hormones toxins
whatever it needs to be flushed out and
I use organic make
and I eat a whole food space diet for
the
most part although sometimes I am
bad but it feels so good to be bad
sometimes along those lines you know
just think about like who your people
are like who your friends are are they
positive and what kind of shows do you
watch do they have positive content it's
not like you have to cut everything out
of your life that has a negative
influence but it can help to think about
you know that kind of consumption as
well so I stopped for a while I stopped
watching shows that made me feel
stressed and not stressed in a way it's
hard for me to describe there's like a
physical and a hormonal stress that
sometimes you can experience without
feeling like you're stressed in the way
most people think of it
like I did oh
this is really hard for me to describe
I'm a highly sensitive physical human so
I can feel small changes in my stress
levels which turns out to be a freaking
really helpful thing for me because of
my vitiligo so you know when I watch a
TV show that has a lot of negative
content or I hear someone talking about
a lot of negative stuff I had I kind of
have a reaction to it and I kind of want
to back away from it because I can feel
what's happening with my own hormones
and it affects you on every level like
your happiness is affected by that so
becoming aware of that was really
helpful for me the next thing I did was
I made sure I talked to people who are
safe to talk to safe people and what I
mean by that is people who kind of
really understand that you are going
through something with
vitiligo and they
are very understanding when you talk to
them about it so a lot of not everyone
like understands what it's like to have
vitiligo and that's okay but some people
are more sympathetic to it than others
for example
I don't know why this is such a huge
phenomenon but a lot of people just
don't get that like people with vitiligo
get stares if people see me from the
right angle they'll just like their eyes
will track me for a while and sometimes
the responses are positive like
they know what that is and they want to
know that I'm cool or whatever I don't
know and sometimes they're not so
positive the jaw drops they their eyes
get really big sometimes it's a look of
disgust on their faces even though it's
probably just shock it still affects me
emotionally so you know talking to
people who really understand that you
know that happens and you're able to
like emotionally distressing but if
there's someone in your life who thinks
that you're gross because you're
vitiligo or is secretly like judging you
when you talk about it then don't trust
them anymore with it just don't go there
my last tip is actually well already
searched and I'm really really happy
about that
so I'm gonna talk about it a little more
in length next week but basically I take
B vitamins and I expose myself to the
Sun by taking walks it happens to be
super powerful and I guess you'll have
to stick around next week for the answer
because I don't want to make this video
too long but B vitamins are super
important for
repigmentation I go so
often times we don't get enough to our
natural diet so I take a supplement and
that's it
so those are all my tips I just have one
last piece of advice which is I have
found my own triggers you know like the
this is my personal list and for you the
triggers may be somewhat different now
getting enough sleep is kind of
universal meditating is another
universal thing all of these things
like
eating well surrounding yourself with
positive people exercise blah blah blah
these are all incredible things that
anyone can do but for you the triggers
may also be slightly different the most
high impact distressing item for you
might be taking a bath and maybe that
lowers your stress so much that it helps
your biddle I go a lot or it might be
instead of getting enough sleep it might
be sleeping a much earlier you just have
to play around with it and see what is
happening with your vitiligo so if you
just become friends with your vitiligo
which sounds funny but then you can
start to understand how it changes day
by day and really just figure out your
own triggers so you can solve it
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naturally and solve it at the root of
the issue because the issues happening
within your own body so anyway I hope
that this video was really helpful let
me know if you have any natural cures
that you use that have really worked for
you I've heard of people using copper
bracelets ginkgo biloba etc etc so let
me know what your a secret super power
for repigmentation ago is let me know if
you try any of the things on that list
and they work for you that would be
absolutely lovely to hear about and that
is all I have for you today don't forget
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have a great day bye
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