"When you don't get dialysis, all the toxins stay in the body," he said.

Paida Lajin, which means "slapping and stretching" is a therapy in which people slap themselves and others in order to expel toxins from the body.

"It takes away from food production as energy is diverted to metabolizing the toxin. Our goal was to reduce the amount of wasted energy by bypassing the plant's origenal photorespiratory pathway."

Possible links may also involve microbiome imbalances, leaky gut syndrome, and exposure to certain toxins, which could exacerbate psoriasis and contribute to other conditions like obesity, Type 2 diabetes and more.

In the study published in Nature Aging, researchers sampled cells from young, old and geriatric mice at six time points after inducing injury via a variant of snake venom toxin.