Helping Histamine Intolerance

Helping Histamine Intolerance…

Many people have histamine issues and have no idea!  If you regularly suffer from a lot of the following list then you may have histamine intolerance going on;  Allergies, hay fever, frequent runny nose, congestion, sore &/or swollen throat, flushes, menstrual issues, headaches, sleep disturbances, blood sugar issues, skin problems, digestive complaints (bloating, diarrhoea or constipation), nausea, dizziness, anxiety and fatigue.

If you eat a lot of the following things daily then it’s much more likely…

Aged cheese, aged/dried meats, canned fish & meat, tuna, pork, smoked foods, green/black/white tea, chocolate, bananas, avocados, many nuts (especially cashew & walnut), dried fruits, milk kefir, yogurt, fermented foods & drinks, booze, bone broth, vinegar, tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, citrus fruits and processed foods.

Basically, if your currently suffering with histamine intolerance symptoms you have too much histamine in your body &/or not enough DAO to deal with the histamine in the body.  DAO breaks down histamines you take in from foods.

The thing is histamine issues are generally a sign of an impaired digestive system (with some other ‘root’ issues that make you more susceptible to these sorts of things) but, it is ‘fixable’ and not something, despite what some may say that you are stuck with.

For this reason, it’s important to start to look into healing the digestive system and then, assuming you look after your health and don’t go and binge on all of the above items in one go you will be able to consume these foods again without trouble moving forward.

Here’s some recommendations of how to do this…

• Stop consuming (strictly) all the above foods (for now).
• Stop consuming (strictly) other things that aggravate the digestive system right away.  Things like gluten, grains, soya and probably dairy for many people too.
• Add in some really good quality (from the fridge not the shelf) probiotics that DO NOT have Lactobacillus in them but instead Bifidobacterium.
• Eat real, seasonal, and local food (we do not have the microbiome to utilise foods out of season and from different parts of the World).
• Focus on your circadian rhythm.  Rise with the sun, go to bed by 10.00pm, get your skin in contact with the earth daily and your eyes and skin in contact with the sun or day light daily.  Wear blue-light blocking glasses whenever looking at screens.
• Watch the sunrise and sunset without sunglasses and get sun on skin as much as possible, without sun cream.  Sunlight exposure will help you reduce histidine in the body, which will help histamine reactions DRAMATICALLY if done daily. Getting the sun on your belly really helps with your microbiome also.  Note: It does not have to be sunny, just daylight works.
• Reduce the electromagnetic frequencies (EMF’s) around you.  EMF exposure increases histamine issues and if you reduce this by switching devices and routers off at night, but carrying your phone in your pocket and hard-wiring in as many devices as possible this will really help.
• Look at reducing your stress and regulating your nervous system are super important as stress increases histamine flares.
• You are probably not detoxifying very well, so remember to gently support detoxification and DO NOT just do random and intense detoxes, as this could make you feel worse.
• Take DAO if you are having a bad flare-up and not antihistamines (as this only worsens the issue over time).
• There is also a homeopathic remedy called Histaminum Hydrochloricum you can take for flare-ups too.
• Quercetin and stingy nettles can both be helpful for histamine flares.
• Ingesting a small amount of beef kidney once or twice a week seems to greatly reduce many people’s histamine issues and if you also add in beef liver occasionally too you will reduce vitamin deficiencies that increase histamine issues.
• The use of a the hydrogen machine or hydrogen tablets can also be helpful for many people.

If your digestive system is in a good place then there may be a deeper root cause, this could be…

• Medications (especially histamine blockers & antidepressants)
• Mold (possibly as high as 90% of people)
• Mast Cell issues, MTHFR (and other gene ‘mutations’)
• Toxicity (from skin, hair, homecare products &/or heavy metals)
• Broken detoxification pathways (almost everyone)
• Gluten & wheat intolerance (if it did not cause it, it’s making it worse right now)
• IBD, SIBO, candida, parasites, bacterial overgrowth, H-Pylori
• Low stomach acid
• Nutrient deficiency (especially B12, B6, Zinc and sometimes Vit C)
• Oxalate toxicity & oxalate dumping
• Sulphur depletion (usually because of oxalate dumping)
• Hormonal imbalances, especially oestrogen dominance
• Metalation issues
• When healing auto-immune conditions you can get worse with histamine issues before you get better

It’s worth mentioning that in many women histamine issues can be worse the week before your period.

Know that this can and will heal if you follow your bodies whispers and eat and live more naturally, seasonally, locally, and simply.

Although we behave more and more like robots, we are animals, and many health issues disappear the more we remember this!