928 - 5 Warning Signs You’re Histamine Intolerant (& What You Can Do)
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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Many of our viewers watch our videos to improve their gut health. Did you know that histamine intolerance can directly relate to gut issues? Learn the 5 warning signs that you’re histamine intolerant, and what you can do to start healing.
Low histamine diet handout: https://drruscio.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/HistamineHandout.pdf
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Featured Studies
📉Circadian profiling reveals higher histamine plasma levels and lower diamine oxidase serum activities in 24% of patients with suspected histamine intolerance compared to food allergy and controls:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29154390/
📉 Pilot Study on the Prevalence of Diamine Oxidase Gene Variants in Patients with Symptoms of Histamine Intolerance: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38674832/
📉 Histamine Intolerance-The More We Know the Less We Know. A Review: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34209583/
📉 Histamine intolerance: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36931880/
📉 Concomitant Prevalence of Low Serum Diamine Oxidase Activity and Carbohydrate Malabsorption:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28042564/
📉 Effect of Candida albicans plus histamine on prostaglandin E2 production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy women and women with recurrent candidal vaginitis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1906913/
📉 Candida-induced histamine release from basophils: relationship to house dust- and anti-IgE-induced secretion: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2411109/
📉 What to know about Candida when you have Mast Cell Activation Syndrome | Histamine Intolerance:
📉 Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth: histopathologic features and clinical correlates in an underrecognized entity: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20121616/
📉 Histamine Intolerance-The More We Know the Less We Know. A Review:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34209583/
📉Effect of the menstrual cycle on serum diamine oxidase levels in healthy women:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23099198/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. |
| 0:14.8 | To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior episodes, make sure to subscribe in your podcast player. For weekly |
| 0:22.6 | updates, visit Dr. Russo.com. Hey, everyone. Welcome back. Let's discuss histamine intolerance. |
| 0:30.1 | This is something that affects 30 to 50% of people with digestive symptoms, according to the |
| 0:37.0 | Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. |
| 0:40.9 | Now, it's not to say that if you don't have digestive symptoms, then you don't have |
| 0:45.9 | histamine intolerance, but knowing that a fair subset of our audience cares about and is |
| 0:52.4 | concerned about their gut health and how this is the |
| 0:54.8 | root cause of many symptoms, I wanted to make sure to tie in how important your gut health is |
| 1:02.3 | for impacting histamine intolerance. So today, let's go over the main symptoms in brief, |
| 1:10.0 | digestive, bloating, diarrhea, abdominal pain, neurological, |
| 1:15.8 | brain fog, depression, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, skin, hives, rashing, respiratory, |
| 1:23.7 | a runny nose, cardiovascular heart palpitations. |
| 1:29.4 | We'll detail those more in a moment. |
| 1:33.0 | Then also discuss testing. |
| 1:38.6 | And conveniently that, in my opinion, and I'll share the evidence that supports this, |
| 1:43.1 | the most accurate way to test is actually a home test. |
| 1:47.5 | And then a few of the factors and treatments that underlie histamine intolerance. Now, to kick us off what is histamine, it's a signaling molecule of the immune |
| 1:56.7 | system. So you've likely yourself or maybe you know a friend or a loved one who has allergies |
| 2:04.3 | and they use an antihistamine. And this is because the immune system uses a number of |
| 2:09.4 | inflammatory mediators, one of which is histamine as part of the immune process. And to tie in the gut, and this is actually from the journal |
| 2:21.1 | gut, we've modified it slightly this visual, but this gives you a good portrayal of how |
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