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Let’s talk histamine intolerance

As most of you know, histamine intolerance ruined my life.

At one point I was almost bedridden, I had symptoms of anxiety, shingles, psoriasis flares, feeling wired and tired at the same time, unable to drive from panic attacks, dizziness, drowsiness, brain fog, chronic daily migraines and headaches, and constant sinus congestion/ runny nose.

I woke up everyday never knowing if it was going to be a good day or a bad day.

It was no way to live but I soon came to realize I put myself in this situation. My histamine issues were triggered by being on birth control for 12 years, over-exercising and under-nourishing (cutting out tons of foods I thought were “bad”), and a stressful lifestyle, all this combined put my body into the perfect place with lowered resiliency to stress to react to a moldy apartment.

It all comes back to proper nutrition and giving your body the energy it needs to handle threats and stressors. A well nourished, less stressed body given a supply of nourishing foods (no blood sugar dips) is less likely to react to it’s environment is such a volatile way.

Proper nutrition supports digestion, detoxification, liver, hormone production, you name it. It will protect you from environmental, physical, mental and toxic stressors.

Cells require nutrients to carry out these functions in the body. Every system in our body requires well functioning cells to produce energy and carry out their jobs. Metabolic health and bio-energetic nutrition (as I teach) is the cornerstone to vitality and kicking histamine intolerance.

The typical recommendation for histamine intolerance is cutting out foods high in histamine, which may be helpful but truly is only a bandaid if you are not getting to the root of why you have the histamine issues in the first place.

With root cause treatment we identify the perceived threat your body is reacting to through research of your case and lab testing.

By resolving the threats with nutrition, lifestyle and supplementation the body can relax and will no longer feel the need to overproduce histamine.

The excess histamine and inability to break it down is the problem, not histamine containing foods.

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A cup of Orange Juice a day keeps the doctor away

In a world where everyone on social media wants to blame fruit and carbs for every ailment under the sun I am here to tell you…

THERE IS ALWAYS MORE TO THE STORY.

It appears people are being fear mongered about carbs and fruit to the point that they are forgetting why they were eating fruit or drinking adrenal cocktails in the first place.

Don’t worry, I gotchu.

Citrus fruits have been used in folk medicine for the management of various diseases for decades and for a good reason.

Swipe through for some recipes and to learn about the benefits of oranges/ orange juice and honestly F anyone that want’s to tell you that you shouldn’t drink an adrenal cocktail or enjoy a piece of fruit because of *weight gain* or *diabetes*…

The literature proves otherwise.

1 in 8 women will develop thyroid problems in their lifetime

You walk into the doctors office and tell them you are having the typical thyroid symptoms of chronic fatigue, decreased ability to handle stress, cold intolerance, circulation issues, aches and pains, anxiety, depression, weight gain, fertility issues, slow speech, brain fog, problems utilizing carbs, hair loss and skin issues, constipation…

You name it. You check all the boxes.

Doc says, “hey let’s run some blood tests to assess what’s going on,” You leave the office happy as a clam on your way to get the blood draw thinking ‘YES finally! I am going to get some answers!’

You wait a week, you get your results back, just a few markers and only TSH to check thyroid and to your disbelief it’s in the “normal range”… The doc office calls to tell you everything is normal but your cholesterol is a bit high, limit red meat. Oh and make sure you get an appointment in 4 weeks.

You end the call disappointed and pissed off wondering what the hell is wrong with you.

Here’s the deal.

T4, T3 and Reverse T3 need to be assessed. T4 is the inactive form that needs to be converted to T3 the active form which is dependent on healthy liver and intestines. Most people can produce enough T4 but due to our overburdened livers and wrecked digestive systems can’t convert to T3 well. When the thyroid hormone is low, the pituitary makes TSH to compensate.

Physiologically speaking TSH shouldn’t need to be made in a healthy body.

The conventional TSH ranges are between 0.5-4.5. These ranges actually changed over time to being much higher to accommodate our health decline and to normalize hypothyroidism.

We are being prescribed T4 only medications which is the INACTIVE hormone and not addressing the conversion problem in the liver and intestines. This is why you can go on thyroid medication and never see a change in your symptoms or feel the FIRE with temps and pulses like you should.

Why are the liver and intestines are struggling?

Excess iron
Excess estrogen
Excess cortisol
Excess prolactin
Excess serotonin
Excess toxins

This is why running testing that looks at your entire body is necessary to determine WHY your thyroid is compromised in the first place.

5 observations I’ve made during my 5 years in practice as a women’s health practitioner

5 years in practice working with hundreds of women.

Working in this space has been the most healing, not only for my clients but for myself and the biggest learning experience of my life. What a gift it has been to help all the women I have.

I will always remember one of my very first client calls.

A woman came to me because she had lost her period and had a host of symptoms due to over-exercising and under-eating because of her desires to have that perfect body and because of “health,” she thought she was doing what she needed to do to be worthy and healthy.
She wanted her period back. She wanted her life back and most importantly to feel alive again and nourished in all areas of her life.

During our call she started crying and said “You know, it’s just really hard being a woman”

She felt that she was going to lose her identity as the healthy fit woman if she pursued REAL health to get her period and life back.

I still get choked up to this day thinking about that call.

That was the call that I never knew would change my entire trajectory of how I talk to women, how I take clients and how I show up in the world to help people.

From that day forward I absolutely refused to be a part of a holistic health culture that promotes restriction, diets, detoxes, eliminations for symptom management or dieting for weight loss. I’ve seen first hand what it does to women.

Working with women has been challenging but so rewarding. Everyone has a story and I hope I have helped you in some way change that story.

The 6 most common weight loss myths being sold to women

Unfortunately we live in a world where we need to be told what to eat, how much to eat, and how to live to be healthy.

Should we need to track our food and jump from diet to diet just to maintain health and weight?

No.

If we had stuck to eating the way nature intended from the beginning and didn’t rely on “science” to make our food for us or tell us how to eat we wouldn’t be where we are today.

90’s kids, you get it.

Imagine how different our health would be?

I also wonder how different things would be if we only came in contact with 50 people in our entire lives like our elders. How different would we feel mentally and physically.

No comparison.

When you actually get off the phone and go out IRL, you can have 10 women in a room and every single one of them has a completely different body shape, not one body is the same but social media makes you think differently.

We live in a world of quick fixes.

We see people doing extreme diets and cleanses and dropping 20lbs in a month online.

We see people that are genetically blessed with thin bodies claiming it’s their lifestyle, supplements and diet that did it to sell you something.

Something we don’t usually see tho, the repercussions of these diets. Trust me, anyone that has been on a diet knows you pay for it later.

Keep in mind. None of these diets have been studied in cycling women due to our unique physiology.

Hormones are designed for survival of the species and therefore our bodies require a certain percentage of body fat for reproduction, fat is safety and for most women to function optimally we need 35% body fat. I know, hard pill to swallow.

A couple of the biggest mistakes I see when people go on a fat loss journey is one doing an extreme diet rather than something sustainable and two not being a metabolically supportive place to do so. You need to earn your right to lose fat.

How are your metabolic markers?

Fat loss requires stress resiliency. A body under stress will fight fat loss.

Your body knows best and I can assure its not jonesing to go on another diet.

The only way through is with nourishment and a sustainable weight loss strategy.