Now, we are going to get some favorable modulation with the low histamine diet because any dietary intervention, my opinion here mostly, that improves host health, your symptoms, has practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.

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So today, let's go over the main symptoms in brief, digestive, bloating, diarrhea, abdominal pain,

neurological, brain fog, depression, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, skin, hives, rashing, respiratory,

a runny nose, cardiovascular heart palpitations. The symptoms here are multisystem.

And this is because, as you're also seeing in this diagram, histamine receptors are

speckled throughout your entire body. The brain, the thymus, the heart, immune cells, epithelial

cells, bone marrow cells, of course, mass cells, intestinal cells, liver cells, vascular cells.

So this is how we see this broadcast of symptoms.

Firstly, gastrointestinal. Reflux. The reason why reflux is a important symptom to consider

is because histamine will trigger the release of more stomach acid.

This is what Pepsid AC will block the histamine 2 receptor. By blocking that receptor, you actually decrease levels of acid.

Now, some will say, and this is partially true, that, well, reflux is caused by low levels of

acid. And that's true for some people, but in histamine intolerance, it's more so that something

is triggering the immune system, leading to high histamine, leading to high gastric acid secretion.

So that's one. Now, because histamine also affects motility,

you can see diarrhea or constipation, in my view, more commonly diarrhea, also bloating. And as you

would expect, food reactivity, in fact, it might be that, and we'll go over some stats in a moment,

but 30-ish, even higher percent of those with

carbohydrate malabsorption, so let's say you are FODMAP intolerant, you are fructose or lactose

intolerant that may be wrapped in along with histamine intolerance.

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