{"id":7057,"date":"2018-01-11T09:35:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T17:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywomanover29.com\/blog\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2018-01-12T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T01:47:03","slug":"histamine-issues-ibs-fatigue-brain-fog-anxiety-depression-migraines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywomanover29.com\/blog\/histamine-issues-ibs-fatigue-brain-fog-anxiety-depression-migraines\/","title":{"rendered":"Histamine issues: IBS, fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, depression, migraines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr. Ben Lynch is hosting the Dirty Genes Summit<\/a>\u00a0Jan 22-39 and he shares this about you and your genes:<\/p>\n

You are not a victim of circumstance\u2026 born with bad genes, destined to die of whatever your family tree has genetically bequeathed you.<\/p>\n

The way your genes\u00a0express\u00a0is unique –\u00a0and\u00a0it can change throughout your life.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Knowing how to create that change is vitally important and you\u2019ll see how clear this is in his wonderful histamine interview with Yasmina Ykelenstam<\/span><\/span> of Healing Histamine.<\/p>\n

I love the bucket analogy where Yasmina shares about histamine and inflammation:<\/p>\n

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Imagine the body as a giant bucket and there is only so much inflammation you can put into it before our inflammation causing behaviors that you can fill it up with before you spill over symptoms. So let\u2019s say you fill it with a few high histamine foods; then you feel it up with stress; then you fill it up to being exposed to animal hair (dander); then pollen season starts; and woah, we\u2019re right, right, right at the top; and then we eat an apple which is not high histamine, it doesn\u2019t cause inflammation, in fact, it\u2019s anti-inflammatory; and suddenly we spill over because the active digestion itself is an inflammatory process.<\/p>\n

We blame the poor little apple and not the hamburger we ate the week ago that started the inflammation bucket filling up. We don\u2019t blame the puppy because we love the doggy so much. We certainly don\u2019t blame our stress because we don\u2019t want to take too hard a look at our lives and how difficult it would be for us to make changes, steps to take real steps to handle our stress and to start meditating or to remove stressful processes from our life because that\u2019s just too much for us to handle<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She shares how you can combat some of this by adding foods with<\/p>\n

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anti-properties: anti-histamine and anti-inflammatory properties\u2026I just stopped eating the wrong high histamine foods, the processed ones, the sugary ones, the ones that added nothing to my life beyond the two seconds in my mouth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Lynch asks Yasmina to list symptoms she experienced in this midst of her histamine issues (many of which are commonly seen in individuals with histamine issues)<\/p>\n

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IBS, which is mostly loose stools or being totally bound up so you can’t go to the bathroom for 8 days and they tend to go back and forth\u2026 severe swelling of the stomach \u2013 what I call basketball stomach\u2026 At my worse, it was projectile vomiting and constant nausea, and constant until it went away\u2026 chronic migraines. I once had migraines every day for six months before they went away. Common symptoms include dizziness, brain fog, low blood pressure, feeling dizzy when you stand up\u2026 really, inability to think straight is a really, really big one. It\u2019s kind of like somebody almost puts a wet blanket over your brain. It tends to happen after you eat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She also shares how fatigue after eating is often an issue. And how intolerance to alcohol is a factor, specifically red wine:<\/p>\n

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Most people do better with tequila, vodka, rum and gin, although alcohol paralyzes the thiamine oxidase, histamine degrading enzyme.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is also a mental health impact from histamine issues \u2013 histamine is a neurotransmitter – and Yasmina shares how this may impact you:<\/p>\n

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\u2026it affects dopamine, GABA, serotonin, and it can make us depressed. It can also make us manic as I discovered in my teens. It can mimic the symptoms of bipolar disorder and also schizophrenia. There\u2019s been a few interesting studies where certain types of antihistamines that are not available on the market were able to reverse schizophrenia symptoms better than antipsychotic medications.<\/p>\n

Anxiety is also a very, very big histamine symptom and whenever I see somebody who has a histamine problem, they do tend to be quite stressed out and kind of the chicken or the egg, which came first. But definitely histamine causes more stress and anxiety and that again is in the medical research.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This statement about symptoms rotating was new to me and may be new to you too:<\/p>\n

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It has to be consistent and then it goes away and then it comes back again. That\u2019s what\u2019s really confusing about histamine because: 1. It mimics many disorders, and 2. The symptoms rotate<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All in all, this is a fascinating interview and well worth listening to!<\/p>\n

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Join the summit and you will learn that your genes can be turned off or on and this event will teach:<\/p>\n