Wonderful topic! I have struggled with allergies ever since puberty - thought it was the hormones but just recently I realized I was on antibiotics for years for my acne, so I'm guessing the effects of that on my gut microbiome is the more likely culprit... After years of suffering (first hayfever, later food allergies, and bronchitis every year during pollen season, i.e. from February to about September) and high doses of antihistamines just to keep me and my lungs out of the hospital, I accidentally stumbled across histamine intolerance. I knew what allergies I had, but all of a sudden I realized I was reacting to high histamine foods for which I wasn't diagnosed with allergies. None of my doctors had ever talked to me about histamines in food. And I'm still not sure whether I'd classify myself as "histamine intolerant" or if the high histamines were "only" aggravating my allergies, or whatever combination of both was going on, however: Around the same time I stumbled across WFPB nutrition and intervall fasting. I started both and can now eat all of the foods I was previously allergic to, as well as all the high histamine foods, and my hayfever is almost non-existent (I've taken a total of three antihistamine pills in 2024 - compared to an average of two per day every day from mid-January in previous years). Now I can't say whether it was the autophagy due to intervall fasting or the WFPB food (and the automatic focus on fibers), but I'm thrilled that focusing on nutrition and my gut microbiome has basically healed me.
Can’t wait to watch. I learned about this last year. I was diagnosed with HI and take an enzyme with each meal now. My symptoms were sinus headaches, runny nose, fatigue
Great topic- I suffer from so many of the mentioned symptoms especially chronic migraines and daily bloating. I have just ordered the cook book- looking forward to starting the diet🫰🙏🏻
My ex dermatologist said the bumps on my back is histamine intolerance. He raised his voice when he said this. He also said if I would lose 10-15% of my body weight it will go away. I am 70 years old and weigh 121 lbs. I did not lose weight, but I did lose that rude dermatologist.
Dear Dr. Bulsiewicz, Thank you for this podcast! However, let me clarify one thing 🙏🏻 Peas or any other legumes sprouds, if you eat them directly, without any gastro-resistant protection, they are going to be inactivated in the stomach 🤦🏼♀️ And they must arrive to the Duodenum to eliminate histamine properly. Best, Adriana Duelo Pre-doctoral Researcher in Food amines and polyamines University of Barcelona
I have had every allergy test and there has been no reaction. Every time I eat I get a runny nose, and I have also had at least 5 sinus infections a year. I also have no reason why, until I listened to Dr B on a previous pod cast. Then I got the Fiber Fueled Cookbook and read all about it. When I talked to my family doctor about it and he immediately agreed. So life changing, thank you. 😁
Adding a lot a fatty steak fixed my gut and histamine problems. Plant based wasn’t working at all. Just no ground beef because it can have tons of histamine.
Hives from some shellfish (ended up in ER)but not limited to food also wool and cold (cord urticaria ) and antibiotics! I have reflux and malabsorption among other issues. For five years on a plant based diet!
I also have an allergy to cold. It's terrible. Seems to come and go over last 20 years. Also think it could be gut related doctor has had me on famotidine for several months.
Excellent presentation as usual with Dr B! It was fun to follow along as I have the fiber fueled cookbook, which has been a great resource for myself and my clients
Have all the symptoms you mentioned to one degree or another. One thing more to watch out for is spices since they are dried and histamine builds up in the process. I can't tolerate any of them.
I have several food sensitivities and histamine issues. Vinegar, lemon juice (at least the bottled stuff, not sure about fresh), mayo (because of the vinegar), and who knows what other foods. My nose runs after eating and my eyes water like crazy. Sometimes I can barely speak because my larynx is affected after eating certain foods. Today I ate a GF sandwich with V mayo (vinegar), tomato, homemade tofu bacon (tamari, vinegar, liquid smoke (vinegar)), homegrown lettuce. I actually didn't have strong symptoms afterwards but then had a cup of decaf lemon jasmine tea. Has chamomile which I have a food sensitivity too. After the tea, my voice went all wonky. Every morning when I get up, I have to blow my nose quite a bit and I'll sneeze quite a bit too though blowing my nose usually stops the sneezing. I amazingly don't have environmental (pollen) sensitivities so the runny nose and sneezing isn't related to that. Just all the congestion running out from the day before I guess. With my food allergies and histamine reactions, eating can be a pain. I'm still working out which foods are histamine related for me. I wonder if there is a delayed reaction with histamine as there can be with food intolerances. I don't think the tea was a problem but triggered a reaction that was actually started with the sandwich. Delayed or triggered reactions is common with me with my food intolerances. Is Will feeling okay? He seemed low energy and looks like he's on medical steroids. Hopefully all is well. I was surprised I didn't hear fodmaps mentioned until Chuck mentioned it at the end. I thought fodmaps dealt mostly with histamine foods. I could be mistaken, I haven't studied them much.
I have itchy, black spots and my HI are in the skin and I can’t eat strawberries they make my skin reacts inmidiatly and now a days I have 7 years without eating strawberries and others meals 😢😢😢😢
Legumes and most nuts are also on that list, so are peanuts, unfortunately. Sunflower seeds are problematic as well, pumpkin seeds aren’t. Trusted resource: SIGHI, the Swiss histamine society. They really know what they’re talking about. According to SIGHI, tuna and shellfish are a problem in and of itself, other fish just needs to be fresh.
This finally explains my “attacks”. I’d have to sit in the shower or at worst take 0.5 mg Xanax. So glad I now know to take an antihistamine to stop this. It’s already cleared up my eczema.
My daughter had a horrible histamine flare after change in her strict anti-inflammatory diet, starting on hormone therapy, and steroids given with IVIG for autoimmune encephalitis. Since it was her birthday, I made her a hazelnut, GF chocolate cake, and a homework keylime pie. She then accidentally ate gluten at a funeral reception along with shirmp. She started eating more dried fruits and dried nuts and was dropping weight. At lowest 97 lbs. Her POTS, skin, symptoms, gut swelling and bloating were under control until then. She has lost conscious once for 3-4 minutes once with profuse sweating. Now trying hard to get back to where she was in her journey to recovering from autoimmune encephalitis. I hate that her meds- Cellcept, and high dose thiamine therapy may be suppressing DAO. I am also concerned that she maybe have degradation of mast cells in her thiamus due to her symptoms of generalized pain, extreme worsening OCD that was mild, serious brain fog, Raynoids worsening, she complains of having trouble breathing, but not asthma related, ...It feels like we are loosing her again after her coming so far in her recovery from Sydenham Chorea/Autoimmune encephalitis and Hashimoto antibodies. Scheduled Vanderbilt appointment and hope to get some help there. Thanks for your content. Will grow some more sprouts and in the dark,this time.
Went on low histamine diet plant based since last 4 weeks it’s really helped also slightly high carb diet helps Not taking tofu or any other artificial protein
I did test my DAO and it was 6.9,i have been on a low histamine diet for 3 weeks so far and taking daily DAO supliment(once per day),and a histamine probiotic.Not fealing that my symptoms are geting better but watching this video made me realise that the reason am not geting better might be couse am eating fryed eggs everyday for breakfast,and am frying with sunflower oil...if frying is not alowed,what about diferent cooking metods for cooking meat?air frying,baking?wondering if bread might be a problem as well?
A big source of histamine is mast cells in the gut. Many foods are “histamine liberators”. These foods stimulate the mast cells in your gut and release large amounts of histamine.
For those of you reading this comment, it's okay, it's normal to feel lonely sometimes, if you're going through tough times, keep trying, but never give up,
You have to add, and go further “upstream” to find root cause. I have mercury and lead toxicity, which in turn causes dysbiosis and histamine intolerance. So I cannot heal my gut (and the histamine intolerance) until I am detoxed from heavy metals!!! I can try to heal my gut til the cows come home, and I won’t be able to until I eliminate the heavy metals! Therefore it’s so important to find the ULTIMATE root cause, or you will be spinning your wheels.
Where did you get the Mercury and lead toxicity from? Many women are loaded with lead from the calcium supplements they ingested 10-20 years ago that were made from oyster shells. It was deposited into their bones with the calcium and now that they're older and they're releasing calcium from their bones they're also releasing the lead also. Hopefully you're not letting a naturopathic doctor talk you into chelation therapy. I did that for a while and the only thing it did was drain my savings account.
I'm bit puzzled that the microbes create histamine so quickly on a lot of plants, but sprouting peas is recommended. In my experience you need to be very careful when sprouting not to have all kinds of microbial side effects going on... Or is this not ment to use in parallel to the diagnosis phase?
Hi, I have had symptoms for 6 years, I have flareups lasting 3-6 weeks at a time, I vomit 2-3 times a day, some days I have so pain, feels like labor pain. Sometimes I am double over in pain.
@@juliehall9884 Thanks for letting me know this! I've only recently had trouble with high histamine, and I am trying to understand the symptoms and what may help.
His broad statement about "all artificial sweeteners are bad". I don't think this is true. Stevia and Monk fruit are technically not artificial right???
Sprouted peas are truly NOT a good alternative to a DAO supplement. If you'd ever suffered from histamine intolerance, you'd know that's pretty terrible advice that Will B. seems to advocate everywhere. You'd literally have to consume kilograms of sprouted peas a day to replace the amount of DAO you get from a single supplement dose.
People with histamine intolerance usually have leaky gut and allergies to boot. a DEFECTIVE bicrobiome/ digestive system completely intolerant to oxalates and fibre. I do best carnivore with low carb veg. Some nuts (macadamia's and brazil ok ).Coffee and dairy free dark choc. Fasting IMO is crucial, but removing all processed crap out of ya life absolute. From there its just personal trial and error. Sadly a lot of delicious keto options are triggering my histamine reaction so have tightened my diet up for now to basically the above. -drink clean water -stop the chemicals in your home and on your body.( no candles, smelly toxins,sprays) - air purifyer for bedroom sleeping. - IF (16-8) Is pretty easy with good hydration. -Gentle relaxing walking every day for as long or little as you can manage. From there I feel like we just have to breath and have faith to heal.💚
The doctor’s explanation why spinach is not recommended on a low histamine diet is erroneous. He is comparing it to the increase of histamine in animal protein after storage. Spinach is a high-histamine food because it naturally contains high levels of histamines. Period. Just like tomatoes, potatoes and avocados. As simple as that.
Its not on the list because every doctor I have been to will go through his/her list and say nothing is causing these symptoms. Histamine will never come up and the doctor will do nothing.
Okay, Will. I understand why you're endorsing a high-fiber diet, but you never say why it should be plant based. I get the feeling in just about every one of your videos that you're just endorsing your personal agenda which is clearly plant based and mixing this personal preference up with the health protocol. Please clarify.
He wants you to buy the book. Im just gonna google the low histamine foods from google and write down on a piece of paper. Carry that with me. Try it for two weeks and see what happens. Then im going to buy or grow pea sprouts and eat those. Im already intermittent fasting and exercising. Important to heal gut first if issues. I did that with carnivore and IF for a couple weeks.
Wonderful topic!
I have struggled with allergies ever since puberty - thought it was the hormones but just recently I realized I was on antibiotics for years for my acne, so I'm guessing the effects of that on my gut microbiome is the more likely culprit...
After years of suffering (first hayfever, later food allergies, and bronchitis every year during pollen season, i.e. from February to about September) and high doses of antihistamines just to keep me and my lungs out of the hospital, I accidentally stumbled across histamine intolerance. I knew what allergies I had, but all of a sudden I realized I was reacting to high histamine foods for which I wasn't diagnosed with allergies. None of my doctors had ever talked to me about histamines in food. And I'm still not sure whether I'd classify myself as "histamine intolerant" or if the high histamines were "only" aggravating my allergies, or whatever combination of both was going on, however:
Around the same time I stumbled across WFPB nutrition and intervall fasting. I started both and can now eat all of the foods I was previously allergic to, as well as all the high histamine foods, and my hayfever is almost non-existent (I've taken a total of three antihistamine pills in 2024 - compared to an average of two per day every day from mid-January in previous years).
Now I can't say whether it was the autophagy due to intervall fasting or the WFPB food (and the automatic focus on fibers), but I'm thrilled that focusing on nutrition and my gut microbiome has basically healed me.
Wfpb foods what r they
@@sailuvijl6621whole food plant based
@@sailuvijl6621Whole Food Plant Based. I hate abbreviations 😢
Was there ever a probiotic supplement you took in order to obtain non-histamine producing bacteria (or histamine-destroying bacteria)?
I hope you will keep doing videos about histamine. It's a hugely underestimated problem. 😢
Can’t wait to watch. I learned about this last year. I was diagnosed with HI and take an enzyme with each meal now. My symptoms were sinus headaches, runny nose, fatigue
Do you mind if I ask? What enzyme?
What are your thoughts on Quercetin and or Bromelain as more natural antihistamines?
Bonus points for Dr. B saying borrow the book from the library if you need to 🥦❤
Great topic- I suffer from so many of the mentioned symptoms especially chronic migraines and daily bloating. I have just ordered the cook book- looking forward to starting the diet🫰🙏🏻
My ex dermatologist said the bumps on my back is histamine intolerance. He raised his voice when he said this. He also said if I would lose 10-15% of my body weight it will go away. I am 70 years old and weigh 121 lbs. I did not lose weight, but I did lose that rude dermatologist.
What the freak! I don’t blame you there!
haha😂
I've been trying to match my symptoms to a condition for a long time. Listening to all the symptoms and trigger foods just turned a light on for me.
Get the book. Great info and recipes.
Might another symptom be shortness of breath and / or insomnia?
Dear Dr. Bulsiewicz,
Thank you for this podcast! However, let me clarify one thing 🙏🏻 Peas or any other legumes sprouds, if you eat them directly, without any gastro-resistant protection, they are going to be inactivated in the stomach 🤦🏼♀️ And they must arrive to the Duodenum to eliminate histamine properly.
Best,
Adriana Duelo
Pre-doctoral Researcher in Food amines and polyamines
University of Barcelona
Hi, what do you recommend to deliver the sprouts safely?
I needed this one. Thanks!
I have had every allergy test and there has been no reaction. Every time I eat I get a runny nose, and I have also had at least 5 sinus infections a year. I also have no reason why, until I listened to Dr B on a previous pod cast. Then I got the Fiber Fueled Cookbook and read all about it. When I talked to my family doctor about it and he immediately agreed. So life changing, thank you. 😁
I have been plant based for decades, contributing to osteoporosis, osteopenia. Off plant based diet has gotten rid of most of my histamine symptoms.
Adding a lot a fatty steak fixed my gut and histamine problems. Plant based wasn’t working at all. Just no ground beef because it can have tons of histamine.
Hives from some shellfish (ended up in ER)but not limited to food also wool and cold (cord urticaria ) and antibiotics! I have reflux and malabsorption among other issues. For five years on a plant based diet!
Chk for sibo motility n low acid
I also have an allergy to cold. It's terrible. Seems to come and go over last 20 years. Also think it could be gut related doctor has had me on famotidine for several months.
Excellent! IVe spent the past 7 years testing allergies and think histamines may be the answer.
Excellent presentation as usual with Dr B! It was fun to follow along as I have the fiber fueled cookbook, which has been a great resource for myself and my clients
Thank you Dr. B you don't know how much I appreciate this.
Great Video!. Great Dr! thanks.
Great Video!
Have all the symptoms you mentioned to one degree or another. One thing more to watch out for is spices since they are dried and histamine builds up in the process. I can't tolerate any of them.
I have several food sensitivities and histamine issues. Vinegar, lemon juice (at least the bottled stuff, not sure about fresh), mayo (because of the vinegar), and who knows what other foods. My nose runs after eating and my eyes water like crazy. Sometimes I can barely speak because my larynx is affected after eating certain foods. Today I ate a GF sandwich with V mayo (vinegar), tomato, homemade tofu bacon (tamari, vinegar, liquid smoke (vinegar)), homegrown lettuce. I actually didn't have strong symptoms afterwards but then had a cup of decaf lemon jasmine tea. Has chamomile which I have a food sensitivity too. After the tea, my voice went all wonky.
Every morning when I get up, I have to blow my nose quite a bit and I'll sneeze quite a bit too though blowing my nose usually stops the sneezing. I amazingly don't have environmental (pollen) sensitivities so the runny nose and sneezing isn't related to that. Just all the congestion running out from the day before I guess.
With my food allergies and histamine reactions, eating can be a pain. I'm still working out which foods are histamine related for me.
I wonder if there is a delayed reaction with histamine as there can be with food intolerances. I don't think the tea was a problem but triggered a reaction that was actually started with the sandwich. Delayed or triggered reactions is common with me with my food intolerances.
Is Will feeling okay? He seemed low energy and looks like he's on medical steroids. Hopefully all is well.
I was surprised I didn't hear fodmaps mentioned until Chuck mentioned it at the end. I thought fodmaps dealt mostly with histamine foods. I could be mistaken, I haven't studied them much.
LONG WINDED
Take vit b complex and acidophilus bacteria for 6 months get your vitamin d checked. Take multivitamin on and off .
I have itchy, black spots and my HI are in the skin and I can’t eat strawberries they make my skin reacts inmidiatly and now a days I have 7 years without eating strawberries and others meals 😢😢😢😢
Great video very informative. Thank you.
I've had hives for 13 years. I can't wait to try this!
Excellent. Thank you.
Legumes and most nuts are also on that list, so are peanuts, unfortunately. Sunflower seeds are problematic as well, pumpkin seeds aren’t.
Trusted resource: SIGHI, the Swiss histamine society. They really know what they’re talking about.
According to SIGHI, tuna and shellfish are a problem in and of itself, other fish just needs to be fresh.
This finally explains my “attacks”. I’d have to sit in the shower or at worst take 0.5 mg Xanax. So glad I now know to take an antihistamine to stop this. It’s already cleared up my eczema.
Tomatoes eggplant spinach all kinds of peppers sesame seeds are few I can't tolerate
My daughter had a horrible histamine flare after change in her strict anti-inflammatory diet, starting on hormone therapy, and steroids given with IVIG for autoimmune encephalitis. Since it was her birthday, I made her a hazelnut, GF chocolate cake, and a homework keylime pie. She then accidentally ate gluten at a funeral reception along with shirmp. She started eating more dried fruits and dried nuts and was dropping weight. At lowest 97 lbs. Her POTS, skin, symptoms, gut swelling and bloating were under control until then. She has lost conscious once for 3-4 minutes once with profuse sweating. Now trying hard to get back to where she was in her journey to recovering from autoimmune encephalitis. I hate that her meds- Cellcept, and high dose thiamine therapy may be suppressing DAO.
I am also concerned that she maybe have degradation of mast cells in her thiamus due to her symptoms of generalized pain, extreme worsening OCD that was mild, serious brain fog, Raynoids worsening, she complains of having trouble breathing, but not asthma related, ...It feels like we are loosing her again after her coming so far in her recovery from Sydenham Chorea/Autoimmune encephalitis and Hashimoto antibodies. Scheduled Vanderbilt appointment and hope to get some help there.
Thanks for your content. Will grow some more sprouts and in the dark,this time.
I use naturdao. Its made from peas. So if you don't want to consume pork, this is an alternative.
Went on low histamine diet plant based since last 4 weeks it’s really helped also slightly high carb diet helps
Not taking tofu or any other artificial protein
Pea sprouts incredible information!
Why can’t you test DAO to get a histamine intolerance likelihood?
I did test my DAO and it was 6.9,i have been on a low histamine diet for 3 weeks so far and taking daily DAO supliment(once per day),and a histamine probiotic.Not fealing that my symptoms are geting better but watching this video made me realise that the reason am not geting better might be couse am eating fryed eggs everyday for breakfast,and am frying with sunflower oil...if frying is not alowed,what about diferent cooking metods for cooking meat?air frying,baking?wondering if bread might be a problem as well?
How different is the low FODMAP diet and the low histamine diet?
How much DAO should I take? I took a blood a test and it came up I have extremely low DAO levels
have you considered bifidobacterium ?
A big source of histamine is mast cells in the gut. Many foods are “histamine liberators”. These foods stimulate the mast cells in your gut and release large amounts of histamine.
But if you have gut issues like sibo or ibs stay away from fiber and veggies until healed. So im back to meat
For those of you reading this comment, it's okay, it's normal to feel lonely sometimes, if you're going through tough times, keep trying, but never give up,
You have to add, and go further “upstream” to find root cause. I have mercury and lead toxicity, which in turn causes dysbiosis and histamine intolerance. So I cannot heal my gut (and the histamine intolerance) until I am detoxed from heavy metals!!! I can try to heal my gut til the cows come home, and I won’t be able to until I eliminate the heavy metals! Therefore it’s so important to find the ULTIMATE root cause, or you will be spinning your wheels.
Where did you get the Mercury and lead toxicity from? Many women are loaded with lead from the calcium supplements they ingested 10-20 years ago that were made from oyster shells. It was deposited into their bones with the calcium and now that they're older and they're releasing calcium from their bones they're also releasing the lead also. Hopefully you're not letting a naturopathic doctor talk you into chelation therapy. I did that for a while and the only thing it did was drain my savings account.
I'm bit puzzled that the microbes create histamine so quickly on a lot of plants, but sprouting peas is recommended. In my experience you need to be very careful when sprouting not to have all kinds of microbial side effects going on...
Or is this not ment to use in parallel to the diagnosis phase?
there is a plant-based DAO supplement available. it's based on ''Legumactive" :)
Naturdao. This is plant based. It is what I use.
Hi, I have had symptoms for 6 years, I have flareups lasting 3-6 weeks at a time, I vomit 2-3 times a day, some days I have so pain, feels like labor pain. Sometimes I am double over in pain.
So cooked ribeye considered cause histamine intolerance
What if you are in extreme pain when you eat fiber what do you do then?
Does high histamine cause rosacea to flare up?
Yes it does! I've had horrible rosacea flare ups!
@@juliehall9884 Thanks for letting me know this! I've only recently had trouble with high histamine, and I am trying to understand the symptoms and what may help.
His broad statement about "all artificial sweeteners are bad".
I don't think this is true.
Stevia and Monk fruit are technically not artificial right???
I have 5 symptoms
Sprouted peas are truly NOT a good alternative to a DAO supplement. If you'd ever suffered from histamine intolerance, you'd know that's pretty terrible advice that Will B. seems to advocate everywhere. You'd literally have to consume kilograms of sprouted peas a day to replace the amount of DAO you get from a single supplement dose.
I take pea DAO, 9 million per meal , 3-6 million at bedtime. Still can’t tolerate avocado 😖😩. Plant based for 5 years
Eat tons of fiber
Some people just are allergic to avocados. Sorry.
There are so many other things to eat
People with histamine intolerance usually have leaky gut and allergies to boot.
a DEFECTIVE bicrobiome/ digestive system completely intolerant to oxalates and fibre.
I do best carnivore with low carb veg. Some nuts (macadamia's and brazil ok ).Coffee and dairy free dark choc.
Fasting IMO is crucial, but removing all processed crap out of ya life absolute.
From there its just personal trial and error.
Sadly a lot of delicious keto options are triggering my histamine reaction so have tightened my diet up for now to basically the above.
-drink clean water
-stop the chemicals in your home and on your body.( no candles, smelly toxins,sprays)
- air purifyer for bedroom sleeping.
- IF (16-8) Is pretty easy with good hydration.
-Gentle relaxing walking every day for as long or little as you can manage.
From there I feel like we just have to breath and have faith to heal.💚
Every disease has practically the same symptoms
The doctor’s explanation why spinach is not recommended on a low histamine diet is erroneous. He is comparing it to the increase of histamine in animal protein after storage. Spinach is a high-histamine food because it naturally contains high levels of histamines. Period. Just like tomatoes, potatoes and avocados. As simple as that.
Its not on the list because every doctor I have been to will go through his/her list and say nothing is causing these symptoms. Histamine will never come up and the doctor will do nothing.
Pea sprouts!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!!!
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Okay, Will. I understand why you're endorsing a high-fiber diet, but you never say why it should be plant based. I get the feeling in just about every one of your videos that you're just endorsing your personal agenda which is clearly plant based and mixing this personal preference up with the health protocol. Please clarify.
Too much, too much, too much. Too many variables. Two veg. Too long and complicated process to determine.
Get his book, it will be easier to follow and go back to reference if something is forgotten. Great recipes there also!
He wants you to buy the book.
Im just gonna google the low histamine foods from google and write down on a piece of paper. Carry that with me. Try it for two weeks and see what happens. Then im going to buy or grow pea sprouts and eat those. Im already intermittent fasting and exercising.
Important to heal gut first if issues. I did that with carnivore and IF for a couple weeks.
I have found red meat has helped me tremendously