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If you’ve done much research on natural wellness, you’ve probably come across the word “histamine.” Histamine is an organic nitrogen compound that serves several functions in the body. It dilates capillaries to release white blood cells at the site of a potential infection. It acts as a neurotransmitter carrying signals between nerves in the brain. It also stimulates cells in your stomach to produce the gastric acids necessary for digestion. In other words, histamine is pretty important! So why are you hearing about things like antihistamines and low-histamine diets? Why would anyone want to limit something that’s so important for the body? Well, sometimes you can have too much of a good thing, including histamine. When your body has too much histamine, it develops a histamine intolerance and you suffer. See, histamine triggers the immune system’s inflammatory response, which gives you the headaches, sneezing, running nose, itchiness, and congestion associated with colds and other stressors to the immune system. This is okay, albeit uncomfortable, for the few days it takes your body to fight off a cold. But when you have an overactive immune system that is constantly releasing histamine in response to nature’s irritants, it leaves you miserable. That’s why many people looking for relief turn to antihistamines, histamine supplements, and low-histamine diets to regulate how much histamine is in their bodies and alleviate histamine intolerance symptoms. However, antihistamines merely treat symptoms, and histamine supplements can address the cause of your overactive immune response, but only after some trial and error to determine what the cause is. In the meantime, the fastest way to start lowering histamine levels and testing if that will relieve your symptoms is to adopt a low-histamine diet. Histamine in food Wait, didn’t you just say histamine is made by white blood cells? Yes we did. But it’s also found in many foods. Other foods don’t contain histamine but do trigger its release. If you suspect you have histamine intolerance, avoiding these foods may help your symptoms and prove you’ve been suffering from histamine intolerance. This kind of diet can also help regulate your histamine levels. Studies found that limiting high histamine foods for just three months seems to rebalance the immune system and offer long-term relief of histamine intolerance symptoms. If you want to experiment for yourself, here are the high histamine foods you should avoid: Cured meats, including bacon, luncheon meats, pepperoni, and hot dogs Fermented alcoholic beverages like beer and wine Fermented foods such as soy sauce, yogurt products, and kombucha Soured food like: sour cream, sour milk, buttermilk, sourdough breads, etc. Vinegar and vinegar-containing foods like pickled vegetables, sauerkraut, and olives Aged cheeses, like Parmesan, Gouda, Swiss, and cheddar, as well as goat cheese Dried fruits Most citrus fruits Strawberries Nuts and peanuts Smoked fish and certain species of fish, including mackerel, mahi-mahi, tuna, anchovies, sardines Avocados, eggplant, spinach, and tomatoes or tomato products Wheat Chickpeas and soybeans Additionally, avoid foods that liberate histamine produced by your body. These foods are Bananas Citrus fruits Dairy products, including chocolate Papaya Pineapple Shellfish and artificial dyes and preservatives. A few more notes about high histamine foods Histamine levels rise as food ages, especially in foods with animal proteins, so your best bet to avoid histamine is to eat as fresh as you can. Even safe foods like fresh chicken or beef develop histamine after sitting in the fridge for a few days. Often, high histamine foods trigger a slight reaction just after consuming them. This might be your face flushing after drinking alcohol or getting an itchy tongue or headache whenever you eat a certain seemingly innocent food. If you know you react to a specific high histamine food, cut it from your diet and start actively avoiding other high histamine foods to see if you feel less symptoms. Before cutting out high histamine foods from your diet, research and stock up on low histamine foods so you never go hungry and aren’t tempted to reach for the high histamine stuff. Luckily there are plenty to pick from. Meal planning and prepping snacks ahead of time should help too. Reducing histamine in the body There’s currently no medical test to diagnose histamine intolerance, but for many people, lowering levels of histamine in their body has brought them great relief from previously mysterious symptoms. A low histamine diet is a safe way to test the possibility that you are suffering from histamine intolerance, and if it helps, you’ll be feeling better in no time! And if you can't avoid high histamine foods, supplements that contain ingredients that help communicate with histamine in the body may be a good option as well. Interested in seeing how Airloom can help you maintain healthy histamine levels?* Get $5 off today with code
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Since starting TSW in January, I have had a sense that I need to do more for my body than simply "stop steroids." Not only does it make sense that the human body will heal faster, and more completely, if given the correct fuel (food!) but, considering my own story, I've still been trying to pull the puzzle pieces together to find an exact cause/remedy for my original skin issues. As I've mentioned in previous posts, I've always had minor skin issues, but things really spiraled out of control about 2.5 years ago (at a time when I had not used steroids in years!). I was not a "regular" steroid user until these unexplained (and terrible) rashes starting appearing in my adulthood. For this reason, I am not satisfied that I will heal completely from stopping steroids alone. For me, it's just Step 1 in a process. As I've been undergoing TSW, I have been in a constant search for more information about how to heal my skin issues and also heal all of the other damage that the steroids did to my body (besides the skin). I believe that I am finally starting my journey down the correct path to healing my body completely! To preface, I had previously started experimenting with the GAPS diet, but found myself having horrible reactions to leftover broth/soup, so I abandoned ship. I know now that my reactions were histame-related (more information on this below). Although the GAPS diet did not work for me, specifically, I still believe that it could be an excellent approach for healing for others. Instead, I am embarking into: The Paleo Approach: Reverse Autoimmune Disease and Heal Your Body, by Sarah Ballantyne, PhD (her website: The Paleo Mom) For those who know me, they know that I've eaten a mostly Paleo diet for over 3.5 years now (by mostly I mean 90-95%). My diet has been fairly clean for a long time now, so parts of this approach are nothing new to me. However there is A LOT of information that I a.) did not know, b.) now understand the importance of incorporating for my own specific healing process! On the whole, her approach is a bit more strict than "normal" Paleo, but for good reason! Here's the rundown: Besides the normal NO grains, NO legumes, NO dairy, the diet also excludes: eggs nuts nightshades coffee (of all the foods I am avoiding this is actually the saddest part for me) Now that I'm not medicating myself (with steroids and only using antihistamines when absolutely necessary), I am also learning that I have a very severe histamine intolerance. (Interestingly, The Paleo Approach also has a section about histamine intolerance outlined in the book!) The great thing about not medicating yourself with drugs is that you can actually listen to your body and what it's telling you about the foods you eat. Therefore, I am also excluding the following foods (which are allowed on the normal Autoimmune Protocol, but should be avoided if you have histamine intolerance): Veggies: Spinach Avocado Fruit: bananas grapes oranges pineapples strawberries tangerines Fermented anything (meats, sauerkraut, etc) Leftover meat (histamine levels rise A LOT once a meat is cooked/leftover) Pork Certain Fish (there's a whole list of types of fish to avoid due to histamine content) Green Tea All alcohol Christopher made this list for me as a guide (it's hanging on our fridge)..... One thing I need to change about this list (besides the Green Tea that I crossed out), is Chicken. Chicken is allowed, but shouldn't be as much of a staple as red meat which has a better balance of Omega-3's, etc. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by the list of "Foods to Avoid", I am feeling empowered by the "Foods to Eat" list! It's limiting, sure, but there are a lot of delicious foods that I am allowed to eat so I'm focusing on those! So far, I'm almost a week into this diet. I had a few mess-ups during the first 2 days (both histamine-related) so I got off to a pretty rocky start. Hopefully I've gotten the mistakes out of my system so I can proceed with the healing. Within the next few days, I'm going to try to post my day-to-day diet on here to start creating a log of my food intake. To wrap things up, it feels really good to take your health into your own hands. Everyone undergoing TSW probably understands this at least in part (we're all going against the advice of our doctors to try to heal ourselves, aren't we?!). For me, gaining my health back does not simply boil down to "stop steroids," I believe it's going to take more than that (especially if I want to avoid having to visit ANY doctors' offices for a long, long while). I never understood the desire for "true health" fully before--even when I was eating Paleo prior to my skin condition! Health has so much more meaning for me now than simply "being skinny." And now, it's even taking on more meaning than "clear skin." I want to take care of my body and not abuse it in anyway; I want to help my body function at it's highest levels. For me, it's taken a debilitating circumstance to knock me upside the head so I can learn about real health. More soon!
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