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The Estrogen + Histamine Connection

Ever noticed you tend to get headaches or migraines around your period or ovulation?

Do you get the sniffles every time you drink wine or coffee? Or a runny nose while eating?

Ever waken up in the middle of the night with your heart racing and full of anxiety?

Do you get moody and raging PMS before your period? Or ever get a bad case of the period poops?

Ever feel like a bloated whale from so much water retention?

Struggling with environmental and food allergies?

Maybe your skin is itchy or you’ve got some rosacea?

Welp girlfriend, you may be experiencing histamine intolerance. As if that didn’t suck enough estrogen LOVES to join in all this fun making the shit storm even worse.

Histamine is a super important player in our immune system and only becomes a problem when in excess. Histamine is needed to digest food, needed for exercise performance, brain function, and helps deliver nutrients to cells.

Histamine “intolerance” occurs when you have too much histamine than your body is able to break down. DAO is the enzyme responsible for breaking down histamines in the GI tract (hint: addressing gut health is key here)

Estrogen and histamine are intimately connected. Histamine and estrogen attach to the same receptors therefore estrogen will cause a release of histamine from the mast cells in the reproductive organs. Increased estrogen down regulates DAO and lowers progesterone levels which is needed to support DAO enzyme activity.

DAO also needs minerals and nutrients to do its job. Copper and Vitamin A in particular are absolutely necessary to break down histamine. I guarantee if you are having a hard time with histamines and estrogen, you are most likely copper deficient which is one piece of the puzzle.

Excess estrogen = excess histmine
Excess histamine = excess estrogen

This is why addressing both is mandatory and the blanket recommendation of eliminating high histamine foods does not work. It may relieve some symptoms temporarily but getting to the root of the problem is necessary to break the cycle.

Scroll down for some basic tips.

In this case working with someone and running labs like the GI Map and DUTCH can be really helpful.

 

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7 Ways to Kick Your Headache or Migraine

Do you struggle with the occasional headache or chronic migraine? Do you find yourself reaching for a pain killer more often than not just to get through the day? I’ve been there.

I know a thing or two about headaches and migraines. I have been dealing with them since I was little girl and it’s something I have always been prone to but luckily after much research and success I have found ways to knock them out fast! Save this post for later to refer to when the pain hits!

So why are you getting headaches? Well this can range from all things stress, hormonal headaches, menstrual migraines, tension headaches, gut probs, a need for minerals and the most likely cause- low blood sugar! I would say 9x out of 10 your headaches can be solved by simply eating a nutritious balanced meal of carb, protein and fat every 3-4 hours. YUP. It really can be that simple!

Another way to balance your blood sugar is to eat sugar! OMG. I said the dirty word. Is a nutritionist telling me to eat sugar to get rid of my headache? You betcha! And even better, add a good scoop of cane sugar to a small cup of coffee. The sugar helps to relax you and the coffee with help the blood vessels to narrow and restrict blood flow, which can help in pain relief. Of course NEVER have coffee on an empty stomach.

Not blood sugar? Get your minerals in check! A big trigger for headaches and migraines is stress and what happens when you are stressed? You run through your mineral stores real quick. In particular potassium, magnesium, and sodium. Make yourself an adrenal cocktail of OJ, cream of tarter, and salt and pop some high dose magnesium glycinate.

Ever notice if you have a headache your digestion also seems to go to shit? Welp, I bet one of the reasons for your headaches could be due to endotoxins and gut bacteria. Eat a raw carrot with some salt to help clean up your intestines and move that shit out of there! The raw carrot also helps to move estrogen out of the body so if your headache is hormonal related- I got you! Better yet- have the raw carrot salad!

No girl, you don’t have a tylenol deficiency. You are stressed, under-fed and mineral depleted.

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