Welcome to the Healing Histamine Blog
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Histamine Affects Blood Sugar & Why Eating Makes You Sleepy
Feeling tired and dizzy after eating, as well as having low blood sugar symptoms between meals, is all too common in histamine intolerance and mast cell activation.…
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Four High Histamine Foods That Just Aren’t Worth It
There’s many posts I’ve written about low histamine foods that aren’t worth being included in our diet, so it’s time to discuss which high histamine…
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Did mom’s sweet tooth trigger your allergies (or histamine intolerance)?
A new study reveals that a sweet tooth during pregnancy significantly raises the child’s risk of allergies, allergic asthma, eczema and total IgE (the stuff involved…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Fasting (and medicine) to beat aggressive breast cancer
In October 2016 I was diagnosed with a rare, highly aggressive, and very deadly breast cancer. I beat the heavily stacked odds against me by…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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,…
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Carbohydrate, lactose and histamine intolerances go hand in hand
You may have heard of the histamine bucket: the idea there’s only so much histamine we can put into the body before we spill over…
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Triphala: Ayurvedic Antihistamine for Histamine Intolerance?
For over two thousand years the Ayurvedic remedy Triphala has played a key role in the practice of Indian traditional medicine. There’s been considerable research…
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Histamine and smell
A small study has just revealed that scented laundry washes contain carcinogens that may raise cancer risk if inhaled. This is unlikely to be a…
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Latest findings on the microbiome and gut health
Here’s a little round up of stories that have caught my interest recently, as well as older bits of information that have piqued interest: the…
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Monk fruit: anti-inflammatory sugar free sweetener
Monk fruit (Siraitia grosvenorii) extract is reportedly 300-400 times sweeter than cane sugar but has no effect on blood sugar and has significant anti-inflammatory properties. Studies…
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Can’t sleep? A natural antihistamine tea could help
There are many reasons that antihistamines make you sleepy. One reason is that histamine is involved in controlling the circadian rhythm/wakefulness cycle. And we can use that…