How histamine causes anxiety symptoms (or GAD)

How histamine causes anxiety
How histamine causes anxiety

So the theme emerging the last few days has been that people are being told that the histaminosis/histamine intolerance is all in their head. The usual. Only rather than doctors, it’s friends and family telling them.

It’s only since my recovery that people have stopped trying to convince me I’m nuts. In a way it’s understandable. I have come up with a million reasons for my illnesses over the years. Many were the fault of doctors. I collected diagnoses like dogs acquire fleas. They were just about as useful as fleas…

Please, the next time someone tries to tell you that your palpitations are just “anxiety,” first, ask yourself if you are anxious about something.

If not, next time you see your friend, quote this:

Sometimes (ruling out heart conditions) the reason people with histamine issues have palpitations after foods (used to happen to me particularly with chocolate and strawberries) is that histamine is vasoactive.

Histamine is….a hydrophilic vasoactive amine. (Wikipedia)

A vasoactive is a pharmaceutical agent that has the effect of either increasing or decreasing blood pressure and/or heart rate. (Wikipedia)

This means that histamine can affect your heart rate. Fluctuations in heart rate can cause feelings of anxiety and palpitations.

I spent years thinking that my palpitations were caused by anxiety. I still get them if I eat chocolate!

4 responses to “How histamine causes anxiety symptoms (or GAD)”

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  2. Maya Avatar
    Maya

    This is actually awesome news. It means I can control my anxiety with my diet. What is strange to me is it never bothered me until a few years ago. I was given an antidep for migrane pain.. and then BOOM. Suddenly I have “anx disorder”. I learned quickly that I could control it by depriving myself of certain foods… but I’m gaining more info and confidence the more I read thatI can actually ADD foods that help as well. Thanks for this blog. I’m going to buy the books too! Bless ya.

  3. thelowhistaminechef Avatar

    Hey that’s great! Yes it totally changed my life. I just didn’t understand why I was anxious. Just avoiding foods made a huge difference, but adding nutrition back was a complete game changer!

    Glad you’re working things out 🙂

  4. Bradford Avatar
    Bradford

    This article is entitled “How histamine causes anxiety”, and I accept it, so far. I’m new to this aspect of self-empowered, de-psychiatrized healing and health. I’ve been struggling with some truly horrific levels of anxiety the past few weeks, and the thing that helps most is “Benadryl”, (diphenhydramine). 25 or 50 mgs. porovides a lot of relief to the anxiety & physical symptoms, but the drowsiness is not so welcome! I generally walk several miles a day, sometimes in several sessions of walking, mostly as a way to self-regulate body functions. And, I still use Yoga and prana (breath) work to help with heart rate, and other physical aspects of anxiety. “Conscious breathing”, including deliberate “holding the breath” is very useful and helpful, but it is NOT easy or quick to learn, and less so for most folks on their own. I hope others come comment here. Thank-you!
    ~Bill

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