Your Liver on Histamine
The liver plays an important role in breaking down histamine. Any damage or impairment of this organ may lead to excessive levels of histamine inflammation in the body, while too much histamine triggers elevated liver enzymes. This is your liver on histamine. WHAT DOES THE LIVER ACTUALLY DO? The liver’s job is to identify toxic […]
Eating Out with Histamine Intolerance (How To Get What You Want)
Eating out might seem like a total fantasy when you’re starting out with histamine intolerance, but there’s many ways to get exactly what you want, without you, your waiter, or dinner companions, going nuclear. Here’s how to deal with histamine intolerance in a restaurant setting. I eat out a lot. Like really a lot. I have […]
Hypoxia (Low Oxygen) Triggers Histamine & Mast Cell Inflammation
Hypoxia, or a state of low oxygen in the body, causes histamine to be released from mast cells. If we’re already dealing with an excess of histamine due to low levels of the histamine degrading diamine oxidase (DAO) enzyme, exposure to high histamine foods, stress, chemical exposure, or illness and injury; avoiding this lack of oxygen […]
Antihistamine Quercetin & Luteolin do not raise estrogen
There’s a few studies floating around out there that, to the untrained eye, appear to implicate the antihistamine and mast cell stabilising bioflavonoids quercetin and luteolin, in excess estrogen. According to National Institutes of Health funded mast cell researcher Dr. Theoharis Theoharides, that’s totally false. Here’s why. Let me start this off by addressing that Dr. […]
Chill out your brain & fight histamine inflammation with tea blossom
Antioxidants found in the Camellia Sinensis (tea) plant are powerful antihistamine allies in the fight against inflammation. Unfortunately, fermentation of the plant can be problematic for those with excess histamine. A recent discovery of mine could help remedy that. All references at the bottom of post. Hands up if you’re tired of finding out that […]
Food re-introduction workshop for histamine intolerance
Food re-introduction workshop recording and bonus 2 hour live Q&A at 3pm Pacific/12pm Eastern on August 1st 2017 (You can email questions in to me if you can’t make it live) The traditional low histamine diet is often a restrictive, soul destroying and not particularly effective healing approach. So why do we do it? Click […]
Histamine-dopamine interaction linked to addiction, compulsive behaviour
Research tells us histamine is linked to a number of compulsive behaviours that depend on dopamine reward. That’s alcoholism, drug abuse, and although it’s not mentioned in the studies I’ve read, possibly gambling. References always at the bottom of post. According to the UN world drug report, over 200 million people use illegal drugs yearly, […]
How to naturally boost production of the histamine degrading DAO enzyme
We’re told that diamine oxidase’s (DAO) job is to make sure histamine is broken down when it’s no longer needed for things like healing, digestion, and wakefulness. Studies show its activity varies more in women that men, possibly due in part to histamine’s role in causing uterine contractions and miscarriage. While DAO production does decline […]
Negative food experiences make future histamine reactions more likely
Conditioned taste aversion is a survival mechanism whereby animals learn to associate taste with a food that has made them sick; usually because it’s toxic or spoiled. In some cases the conditioned association between a food and sickness is so strong that the amygdala, the primitive part of the brain whose role it is to identify whether something […]
Fasting’s effect on diamine oxidase (DAO) & histamine intolerance
Two important questions regarding fasting for those with histamine intolerance are: does not eating affect the function of the histamine degrading diamine oxidase (DAO) enzyme, and is the stress of not eating so extreme as to negate the benefits of it? All references at the bottom of post. Why a post on fasting? I’ve long used […]