How I discovered - and solved my histamine intolerance for good

I spent years suffering from histamine intolerance and sensitive to all foods from tomatoes to eggplant.

Like most people in this situation, my story during this time was not a happy one. It’s a story of spending years in agony, constant physical discomfort, and frequent emotional lows.
I was 22 years old and had just finished my Bachelor’s degree. I had just moved into a new place and was ready to start a new job. Things were going well, and I was keeping up with my workout routine and eating well as always. I was a normal, healthy person. Or so I thought…

I soon found myself bedridden, so chronically exhausted that I needed assistance to walk up the 3 steps to my apartment.

Things started off with a little fatigue – I wasn’t able to get through my workouts as usual. Hmmm… this was odd, I thought – but nothing more.

It was within a matter of weeks, I found the skin rashes, digestive issues, night time stuffiness, headaches and other strange symptoms to become rapidly worse.

It seemed like I was reacting to every food I ate, I even became fearful of my next meal and there was no chance I would consider eating out with friends or attending family dinners. I was confused and terrified, what the heck was going on with my body!?

In one of my classes, we watched a clinical interview where a woman had been experiencing similar symptoms. She was diagnosed with histamine intolerance.

“What the heck is histamine intolerance?” I thought.

Well, her symptoms were similar to mine, and the diagnostic aspect seemed simple enough: simply follow a low histamine diet for two weeks – if symptoms improve, you likely have histamine intolerance. If not, it might be a different sensitivity.

I researched all of the foods I could and couldn’t eat, then was quickly off to the grocery store to begin my two weeks.

The result? Symptomatic improvement after two weeks.

I didn’t by any means fix myself, but the improvement gave me confidence that histamine intolerance was my issue. I finally had a basis to begin my recovery.

FYI, that’s step 1: if you haven’t already begun a low histamine diet, check out my free low histamine foods list to start the at-home diet today.

I spent nearly every waking hour researching the disorder at a scientific level. There was no way I wanted to remain afraid of food for the rest of my life, and awaiting the next high histamine exposure that would bring the symptoms right back. I wanted to fix myself.

With plenty of hours of research and wracking my brain to fit together the giant puzzle that is histamine intolerance, I finally developed a strategy I thought could work.

I began applying my own combination of interventions. I scientifically monitored my health status by testing various biomarkers and was amazed to see my body improve so much from therapies that I was applying in my own home!

A whole bunch of other life-long health problems began to vanish as well!

By using my own interventions, not only did my symptoms get better, my food sensitivities slowly improve and then disappear, my mood lift and my quality of life return to normal – but a whole bunch of other life-long health problems began to vanish as well!

For the first time in my life, I was no longer anaemic. For the first time in my life, I did not spend one day each month crying in pain from unbearable menstrual cramps. These were problems that no doctor or specialist had been able to help me with – and now, they were gone!

I was healthy, and it felt great. However, even with this amazing new freedom, one thing remained on my mind….

Throughout my entire journey, I had begun talking to many histamine intolerant individuals along the way and nearly every single one of them had shared similar experiences in [lack of] treatment options.

Additionally, approximately 1% of the population experiences histamine intolerance and, just like me, most of them have never even heard of it!

I was carrying so many tools, so much new knowledge, so many therapies that could hugely improve or entirely fix people and free them of these problems for life!

It was no question that, following my Master’s degree, I decided to specialize in histamine intolerance and continue down the path of helping people to improve or eliminate this under-recognized disorder.