How Full is Your Histamine Bucket?

How full is your histamine bucket?

This concept helps us think about all of the things that contribute to high histamine levels.

A big cause is eating too many high histamine foods, combined with leaky gut which impairs your body’s ability to produce DAO, the enzyme that breaks down histamine.

Drinking alcohol? Buzz kill, it’s a huge source of histamine plus it also blocks the enzyme DAO, double whammy.

What else works the same as alcohol? Green tea. Yup. One of the many blessings of histamine intolerance is that many “healthy foods” are off limits.

Think fermented foods like kombucha, yogurts, fermented veggies like sauerkraut, wine…sigh.

Another big source and why this is such a problem for women is high levels of estrogen in the body. Estrogen stimulates the release of histamine and histamine triggers the body to produce more estrogen.

Other sources can be a wide variety of environmental toxins like mold, heavy metals, and parasites.

Some individuals suffer from genetic mutations which can be any or a combination of MTHFR, HMNT, DAO, or MAO.

A low histamine diet is a great place to start, but it will not resolve the underlying issues and it is also not a permanent solution.

Any specific dietary strategy should only be used temporarily and if you think you fixed your histamine problems but start to notice issues again when re-introducing those foods, that’s a sign you still have work to do on healing your gut and your hormones.

Want to learn more?

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Are you ready to stop trying to figure this out on your own? Shoot me a DM. I have personally struggled with histamine intolerance and I know how debilitating it is. I can happily tell you I no longer have histamine symptoms and the same can be true you for as well!