This guide started as a personal problem. It took 37 years to become a framework.

Wilhelm Bäckström

I have had eczema and seborrheic dermatitis since I was a child. By my mid-thirties, I had lost 30–40% of the hair on my crown. Not from genetics — from chronic inflammation that no one connected to my skin condition.

I spent over 500,000 SEK on treatments, clinics, prescriptions, and specialists across three countries. PRP injections, finasteride, ketoconazole rotations, elimination diets, cortisol testing. Some things helped temporarily. Nothing lasted.

The turning point was not a product. It was realising that every treatment I had tried addressed the last step in a five-step cascade. The flaking was the symptom. The system underneath — insulin, cortisol, immune signalling, biofilm, sebum composition — was the actual problem.

Once I mapped those drivers as one connected system, things started to shift. The flares became predictable, then manageable, then rare. I regained 15–20% of the hair I had lost.

15 years with seb derm

500k+ SEK on treatments

24 peer-reviewed references

50+ pages in the guide

The path to this guide

Childhood

First symptoms

Eczema from an early age. Prescribed steroid creams. The pattern began: temporary relief, then return.

Teens – 20s

Seborrheic dermatitis appears

Itching outside the nostrils. Yellow flakes on the eyebrows. Then the scalp. No doctor explained what it was or why it kept coming back.

30s

Hair loss begins

30–40% loss on the crown. Specialists blamed genetics. No one connected it to the chronic inflammation I had lived with for decades.

2014–2023

500,000 SEK on treatments

PRP, finasteride, clinic visits across Sweden and abroad. Some improvement when living in warmer climates — sun, sea, lower stress. Back in Sweden, everything returned.

2023–2025

The framework takes shape

I stopped chasing products and started mapping mechanisms. Seven root drivers. Three phases. One connected system. Hair began regrowing. Flares became rare.

2026

The Inflammation Manual

The guide I wish had existed when I needed it. 50+ pages. 24 references. Everything I learned, structured as one framework.

Why I wrote this

Because no single resource connects all the drivers. Reddit gives you 10,000 data points. Dermatologists give you a cream. Diet courses give you a meal plan. None of them show you the full system.

I wrote this guide because the gap between what science knows and what patients are told is enormous. IL-17 pathways, ceramide deficiency, insulin–sebum cascades, biofilm disruption — this information exists in peer-reviewed literature. It just never reaches the person sitting in the dermatologist's chair.

This guide is that bridge. Not medical advice. Not a miracle cure. A framework for understanding what is actually happening inside your body — so you can stop guessing and start making decisions based on mechanism, not marketing.

Read the framework

Three phases. Seven root mechanisms. 24 peer-reviewed references. 35 years of pattern recognition.

Get The Inflammation Manual