Welcome to the Healing Histamine Blog
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Ayurvedic remedy helps fight flab, fix your thyroid and lower histamine levels!
I’m taking a number of steps to help my body recover from any inadvertent histamine hiccups (ahem, cupcake incidents) I may subject it to. One…
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Playing histamine detective is easy – here’s how I do it.
Update: nowadays I wish I hadn’t tried so hard to play histamine detective. In the end I believe it became counter productive, causing my amygdala…
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Non toxic beauty: this natural hair dye prevents allergies!
UPDATE: I’m no longer reactive to shampoo or hair dye. But I’ve stopped dyeing my hair anyway. It’s just too toxic. I use 100 percent…
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On the Go cookbook sneak peek!
I’m waiting for tax papers in the US to go through before I can sell the books on Amazon. So in the meantime I’ve been…
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Suffering from make up allergies or reactions? Try wearing nudes…
Suffer from make up allergies/reactions? Ever noticed nudes bother you less? Me too! An interview with Ilia Beauty founder Sasha Plavsic at the fabulous Being Content in…
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Tasty antihistamine hot beverages.
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about my top hot beverages… As you can see from my picture here, the detox is going great!…
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The Histamine Detox
THIS IS AN OLD POST, BUT RELEVANT TO PEOPLE STARTING OUT. CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW I MOVED PAST THE ELIMINATION. THE LOW HISTAMINE DETOX…
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Stressed out uterus?
I’m not just going for a catchy headline here – turns out that valerian root is not only a powerful anxiolytic (natural chill out pill)…
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3 days off diet = 3 weeks recovery
Today I’m off to see the UK’s only/best mastocytosis specialist. The reason is simple – I want to know exactly what I’m dealing with. Thing…
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Got allergies? You need this natural antihistamine in your medicine cabinet
Here’s an interesting headline for you: nightshade flower as effective a mast cell stabiliser as commonly prescribed sodium cromoglycate. This definitely brought a smile to…
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5 top tips to kickstarting your histamine intolerance recovery
A lot of people ask me how I’ve got from total histamine intolerance breakdown to where I am. While I do believe my recovery is…
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There’s more to the low histamine lifestyle than elimination!
UPDATE: there is a ton of misinformation flying around on the internet. I’m constantly flummoxed by how people will attribute feeling awful to chickpeas or…
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Low histamine recipes in 20mins (or less!)
Do you spend hours roaming the supermarket in search of a quick meal? Are you bored with eating the same five foods over and over?…
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The surprising link between allergies and migraines.
I suffered daily migraines for many years. At some point I finally came to the conclusion that my headaches, which made me bang my head…
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Low histamine recipe challenge!
What recipe would you absolutely love to have low histamine-i-fied? Had a good think? Please post your requests on the Facebook Page and I’ll pick…
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Surfing the crimson wave make you crazy? Could be histamine…
Tired of your man attributing every nuance of behavior to your menstrual cycle? Well, he could have a point, but you’d die before admitting it…
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Your own personal food histamine sensor? It’s almost here!
“The ultimate goal of the project is to produce detectors for expert and non-expert staff to assess when unhealthy levels of biogenic amines have accumulated…
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Is your anti-histamine making you fat?
In last week’s post “Histamine’s upside: I lost 35kgs in 6 months” I mentioned the role of histamine in appetite suppression. I recently had a conversation…
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Holy Basil! Anti-inflammatory and anti-histamine superstar
Not only is Holy Basil tasty in just about any Thai or Vietnamese dish – turns out it’s an anti-inflammatory, anti-histamine herb that’s as effective…
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Exercise is good for you, so why does it make you sick?
New studies show that aerobic exercise raises histamine levels. This isn’t news to me. When playing squash I have to take time outs to scratch…