2 hour online workshop: Healing the Brain to Heal the Body
Citations always at the bottom of the post. A RECORDING OF THIS EVENT IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE HERE. 2 hour live online workshop with Yasmina 11th June, 2016 at 10am San Francisco / 1pm New York / 7pm Paris With a recording of the workshop available to you after the event 2 hour live online workshop with Yasmina 11th […]
Mast cells, histamine, inflammation and obesity
My “before” lifestyle changes picture Citations always at bottom of post Mast cells are key players in immune system generated inflammation. You know, the stuff that heals you when you’re sick, but makes you sick if inflammation happens when you’re not. Mast cell activation (as it’s called) is also involved in allergic reactions of the lungs and nasal […]
Inflammation, histamine implicated in Alzheimer’s
Citations for every blog talking point are always at the bottom of the post. As I reported in last week’s blog post Luteolin for mast cells, histamine and brain fog?, “..it seems research is also pointing to neuro-inflammation as the driving force of Alzheimer’s.” And indeed this week it certainly is. While it’s still a theory, a […]
Luteolin for mast cells, histamine and brain fog?
Citations always at the bottom of the post According to Dr. Theoharides at Tufts University School of Medicine, brain fog is defined as a “constellation of symptoms” encompassing the loss of mental acuity, the ability to concentrate and multitask, and the loss of short and long term memory. It’s frequently experienced by patients with chronic […]
Natural mast cell stabilisers for histamine
Citations can be found at the bottom of this post. According to an article published in the British Journal of Pharmacology in 2013, mast cell stabilising compounds inhibit the release of allergic mediators (like histamine) from mast cells (a part of the white blood cell system). These can be pharmaceutical or natural – I use the latter. […]
Low FODMAPs diet may help histamine intolerance and IBS
UPDATE: math is not my strong point so my apologies. I have changed the first graph to reflect verbatim the histamine reduction. In the last few years research into causes of IBS have explored a link to foods high in fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols (FODMAPs) [1]. And now researchers believe a low FODMAPs diet may […]
I’m not anti-pharma, I’m on a medication vacation
I was recently forced to pin this post to a Facebook group: “PHARMACEUTICAL SHAMING”: demonising pharmaceuticals and scaring people into thinking they will not heal if taking medications. While we are focused on natural healing via diet and other methods in this group, please refrain from the “pharmaceutical shaming” of folks taking prescribed medications. It […]
Nigella sativa for allergies, osteoporosis and flatulence
Nigella sativa and its active constituents have been shown to possess antioxidant, anti-parasitic, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, pain killing, and fever lowering properties, in addition to treating coughs, slowing the growth of some cancers, as well as inducing cancer cell death in cervical, liver, colon, lung and certain types of breast cancers [1]. Please bear in mind […]
Long term exposure to antigens may help mast cells
Antigen: any substance that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against it. This means your immune system does not recognize the substance, and is trying to fight it off. An antigen may be a substance from the environment, such as chemicals, bacteria, viruses, or pollen. An antigen may also form inside the body [1]. The traditional […]
Chronic urticaria (hives) linked to histamine foods
Urticaria is something many of us with histamine intolerance or mast cell activation have come to know as our nemesis: hives. Most doctors (non specialists) may not yet know that if allergies are not present, as diagnosed by IgE or RAST, excess histamine has been found to play a key role in chronic idiopathic urticaria/hives. […]