Key findings of industry news, community updates, troubleshooting to FAQs, and hand-picked resources for people seeking to reverse eczema.
Why The Eczema Insights Report (EIR)?
Only the important. There’s TOO MUCH information online today on eczema compared to when I first started out in 2013. I call it “insights” because I only share the important.
Accurate and effective. As someone with in-field experience, it is disappointing to read a lot of articles online either with wrong information, blurred grey area information, or pure-theory unactionable advice.
Skim-friendly. More people are reading CES by mobile (71% to be exact). It’s easier to read concisely written (not necessarily shorter) content for easy consumption.
In short: the report acts as a year-end summary on eczema designed to be relevant, useful, and actionable.
When you’re stuck at the crossroads, seek guidance!
Don’t scratch your skin! Drink more water! No. None of those so-called eczema tips here. This list contains 50 most important, time-tested, evidence-based, experience-backed tips organized in five categories. This list is simple, substantial, and shareable!
The eczema recovery framework on Cure Eczema Slowly, and as proposed on The Eczema Manual, includes three (plus one) major components:
Gut-skin Connection
Liver-skin Connection
The Stress Complex
Living with Eczema (Other Aspects)
Putting the pieces together result in these tip categories:
This article is a result of 15+ years of dealing with the torturing autoimmune disease called eczema.
This is the most significant piece of writing I have ever done, and it will be as important for you, as an eczema sufferer or as a parent or close friend of an eczema patient — and that is if you want to reverse eczema — because there is a solution.
But here’s a disclaimer.
I’m not going to make this page any longer than it needs to drive sales.
I’m not going to give you an emotional, sad, pitiful story to engage your ethos.
Here’s the important 5-point summary instead:
The last batch of steroids I was prescribed.
I suffered from atopic dermatitis (eczema) since 6. Ever since I’ve tested numerous physicians, skin specialists, Chinese medicine practitioners, multiple skincare “revolutionary” and health products. As you expected, nothing really fully worked.
In 2013 after deeply digging through the internet, I began to notice common patterns on what many anecdotal ex-patients of eczema did, how different working diets actually are based in the same principles backed by nutritional science and evidence-based research… I gave it a shot, and it worked!
Ever since I discovered reversing eczema is POSSIBLE, I established an online resource called CureEczemaSlowly.com named after what I believe is the most accurate thing to portray: healing eczema takes patience and commitment and needs to be done systematically and slowly!
I was glad many people approached me for eczema advice. Of course, I offered everything to the best of my ability within what I learned. But you see, I couldn’t keep up to half a million visitors since 2013. We all have 24 hours a day and there’s no way I can answer hundreds of emails (I want to help my readers don’t get me wrong), especially since there are 250 million eczema patients worldwide today.
4 years later until 2017, on and off trying to consolidate everything essential eczema sufferers should and need to know to eliminate eczema from zero to one, into one book called The Eczema Manual. I’ve been there. Done that. Clawed into my skin at 3 am. Scratched in public at any time possible. Had stains over my white clothes. And I know exactly how much incomplete and inaccurate information there is online growing each day. That’s why I’ve created a compendium (concise but complete) to document everything you need to fix and manage this disease.
Pre-fast and post-fast comparison of my left arm patches.
And I’m glad I can finally serve you. Whether you’ve been a subscriber for a few years, or just subscribed. Or first time here.
My goal is not to shove you a product and claim it is the only solution. There is no “one size fits all” approach, but one that is more likely to work than others. Demonstrated by evidence.
In fact I want you to unsubscribe as soon as possible (e.g. within a year) otherwise I would’ve failed you trying to eliminate your eczema case.
If you know me well, or by now reading this page, I’m extremely down to earth. I basically talk to you through the screen.
Let’s cut to the chase: this website has two pathways.
Send me your email address via any sign-up form you see (e.g. the pop-up you may have closed earlier), and I will email you trimmed down versions of actionable eczema content to get you started on eliminating eczema over 28 days.
Skip the wait, get to the point, and get the compendium I have crafted for you.
Either pathway can help you understand eczema better, devise a personalized plan, and execute immediately.
How will The Eczema Manual help you?
I’ve structured the content in the most logical fashion and simple-to-follow language possible.
A more detailed Introduction to my struggle with eczema.
A big picture view of phases people go through in eczema — The Vicious Eczema Cycle.
Rethinking Eczema: a compact summary of evidence-based reasons into why the conventional strategy to eczema doesn’t work (Yes, steroids. But there’s more.)
A twenty-principle (each principle is a few pages long) for the Gut-skin Connection — a detailed go-through of how everything you hear about gut health that is relevant to eczema elimination (e.g. leaky gut, microflora imbalance, what foods are potential triggers, what silent foods are dangerous, etc.)
A five-principle Liver-skin Connection — a debunk of how many common yet unknown controversial concepts relating to “detox” need to be re-understood because it’s all buried in the grey area of evidence and fad.
A four-principle The Stress Complex — you will find how the body is inextricably complex and amazing. Dietary factors are only one part of the equation in reversing eczema. Multiple non-dietary factors play equally important roles for reversing this autoimmune disease.
Actionable and simplified three-page summaries of each of the above three core sections of this manual (gut, liver, stress).
The Healing Protocol: for those who prefer to skip the talk even though my compendium is already greatly simplified (but eczema is a big subject). This section is about ACTION. It is designed to get you started, like how to have good nutrition during and after your eczema recovery, how long you need to recover, a sample schedule, age-specific treatments (e.g. for toddlers or for adults?) and a nice progress checklist to keep you asking the right questions.
A 14-point Resources section. Here you find all the essential lists you ever need to eliminate eczema with. Nothing more. Nothing less. What to eat at each stage of dieting (highly restrictive, lightly restrictive, gradual reintroductions)? What to avoid for optimal recovery? What you can eat more to boost recovery?
FAQs. Of course, we all have questions. If unanswered, email me.
For the science-savvy: References — this is the section where I spent hours and hours reading through and consolidating evidence-based research to support all the actionable recommendations in The Eczema Manual. A big thanks to all these amazing and hardworking scientists around the world.
Actionable, concise, evidence — these are the words best describe The Eczema Manual. (Hey, it’s an acronym for A-C-E.)
Update July 2018: I have received plenty of feedback to my next revision. We are all connected these days, just email me and let me know how I can improve the manual for you and for everyone else.
What Do Other Readers Say?
“I first met Harrison online because I was looking for helpful resources to relieve me from a severe eczema breakout. Doctors and herbalists couldn’t help me as my condition just kept getting worse that I almost stopped schooling and came close to being bedridden. It was only until I came upon Harrison’s website that I found true knowledge on how to keep eczema under control. Since then, I’ve been following his advise and I’ve never had my eczema come back again. It was such good news to hear Harrison’s insights being immortalized in a book. I’m sure this will prove helpful to not just victims of eczema – but of other conditions as well – just like how it was to me. Thanks a lot, Harrison!” – Mary J. T. (Reader)
“Before I found your blog, I went through some blogs with eczema stories but all ended up only trying to sell their books about Paleo Diet. I was so glad to finally found your blog, I found it simple, open and to the point. I wrote this to say thank you for your work.” – Gabriella (Reader)
“Thanks man your a good person for doing this, I’m going through a bad flare up on my face right now, had to leave the university and everything, its been a long and depressing year, it came from no where, but I just found out about these diets and I’ve been on the strict diet for a week, my face went through that terrible phase of getting worse, but I know its normal, but hopefully this thing will get cured, but I promised myself if I get cured by doing this diet, I’m going to dedicate my life to help people who have skin problems, its just nice to see someone out there doing the same, good stuff man.” – Jonathan (Reader)
“I am so glad to find your blog. I have a 14 year old son who is currently undergoing extreme eczema pain… It would be really encouraging to show him your videos and let him know that there is hope and anyone, just anyone just him can suffer eczema. His is more of a congenital issue, we all know… Thanks a lot for sharing your experience and knowledge here. Unlike all other websites who focused on selling the books, you meant well to impart what you have gone through.” – Lim Mun Yee (Reader)
“Thanks so much for taking the time to write this, and to gather all this information. I have been suffering from Eczema for most of my life – I am currently 23 years old and suffer from it. I am originally from Australia and recently moved to L.A to pursue acting, and since I’ve been here my skin has gotten worse and worse. I think possibly due to the weather, moving out of home so learning how to cook and feed myself correctly, as well as increased stress and lack of sleep from dealing with every day life and auditions. I have been following your blog for the past few months, and I have taken bits and pieces from it when really helped. But as soon as I started reading your book I got goosebumps – I finally felt like this was the answer I had been looking for. In the past 3 months alone since it is now Summer I have taken 2 steroid shots and 3 rounds of steroid tablets since I have had so many flare ups, but I finally feel confident that with the advice and information in this book, that I can now maintain and hopefully completely rid myself of my eczema forever! I would highly recommend this book to everyone with eczema, as it truly contains all the information that if you follow it, it will really help your journey towards being eczema free forever! Thanks for being a messenger and bringing this information to the rest of the world!” – Emily C. (Reader)
If a cure means eliminating eczema symptoms like dry, itchy, cracked skin, up to the extent another person cannot identify you with eczema, then YES.
Drug-free solutions exist in the 21st century.
2. How long does it take to recover?
Depends on your medical history with steroid therapy, severity of eczema, and your feasible effort of changing lifestyle habits. In general, three to nine months to eliminate 90% of your eczema.
(For reference: I spent three months in 2013.)
3. Why do I need your book?
Because I was in your position since 6 years old.
I’ve read through all the crap online that doesn’t work e.g. new trendy diets, superfoods, revolutionary supplements.
I’ve been to countless doctors, dermatologists, Chinese herbalists.
I’ve tried countless of lotions, creams, steroids, bathing solutions.
I fill the gaps on existing books out there. (There are only a few credible eczema advocates online.)
This book is designed to save you time because simply, there is no point to reinvent the wheel.
If you discover my book is of low-value, consider the effort I spent since high school in 2013, until the time in University, the time I sacrificed in the library to craft this piece, a joke. I’ll gladly refund the book to you. It’s best if you do an open video critique too.
4. Why should I believe The Eczema Manual?
Because it works.
This book is an accumulation of first-hand experience, trial and error, patient-generated evidence worldwide, Chinese and Western medicine, and reading and digging through evidence-based research.
And then I compile all of the essential insights into actionable key points into a manual as if I could give it to my younger self when I first had eczema at 6 years old.
5. Why did you write this book?
Eczema affects up to 250 million people worldwide today, plus undocumented cases. Since the first use of steroid therapy as the first (and only) line of treatment for eczema in the 1950s in the United Kingdom, the treatment remains unchanged until today in 2018.
Yet, an increasing number of people are diagnosed with eczema in both developing and developed countries.
Sometimes, ineffective solutions don’t need 68 years to tell you it’s not working.
6. Where do the funds go?
Pay all the operational expenses running this website since 2013.
Translate the Manual into other languages (e.g. Chinese).
Conduct non-profit workshops to help the local community.
Reverse the eczema of 1 million people before 2026.
(Email me if you have ideas.)
An Invitation To Support The Mission Behind CureEczemaSlowly.com
Photo: TEDx Speaker 2018 (I recently spoke to an audience about the struggles of growing up with eczema and how it is possible to overcome such a lifelong challenge.)
As I frequently say, you don’t need to pay much to reverse eczema.
The only things you need to buy are real food, skincare products based on natural ingredients to relieve your itches during recovery (optional), and the knowledge of what to eat.
The compendium is designed to save you time, i.e. the many hours saved on experimenting different eczema solutions purported online and offline, saves you pain from more flare-ups, and gives you all the value you need to fast-track eczema recovery.
The point is: this is a guided journey with a real person to support you.
No. I’m not going to play with numbers and tell you to skip a few Starbucks coffee to get this book for $24.99. Here’s why.
Cure Eczema Slowly is a non-profit initiative. It has grown from 0 to 0.8 million views until today because the content is real and works for many people. I set this price to cover the operational expenses since 2013. All remainder funds add to future expansion.
Digital & Hard Copy Available: Purchase The Eczema Manual
Please pay special attention as there are two separate links below:
If you’re interested in getting free early access to The Eczema Manual… you’ re at the right place.
The official launch date is September 1st, 2017.
But before that, I would like to offer some of my existing readers, or even new readers, to join the giveaway event. As soon as 100 digital copies are filled, the giveaway ends.
(People who didn’t make it on time can still get opt for the launch discount on Sept 1.)
Personally, this is a prelude to the book launch, which will be the BIGGEST event in my life so far. And I want you to be part of the excitement. It’s not about me, but YOU. It’s about people in the world who need actionable information on eliminating eczema. Parents of newborns with infant eczema, teenagers, twenty year-olds, and anyone else beyond.
It’s been five years since the birth of CureEczemaSlowly.com (CES) — with the mission set out to eliminate eczema for everyone in the world.
If you’re interested in getting free early access to The Eczema Manual… you’ re at the right place.