Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

And this is the RU menstrual podcast, where we help you navigate the confusing world of women's hormones and teach you how to have healthy periods.

Each week, we will be diving into a different topic on women's health and sharing our perspective using nutrition, female physiology, and metabolic health.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your

healing journey.

We hope you enjoy it.

Okay, we have our long-awaited histamine episode.

This is something that I tend to get a lot of questions on, especially when I talk about

things like copper and iron or gut issues, or if I share certain foods that people with

histamine intolerances tend to not tolerate very well, like

gelatin or orange juice or something like that. And typically the question is around like, should I

cut out X, Y, and Z food? Should I take this supplement that can help lower histamines in the body?

And there's not much discussion on where it's coming from, right? So I think that histamines in the body. And there's not much discussion on where it's coming from, right? So I think

that histamine intolerance can be confusing if you don't understand what histamines are, why we release

them, and then what can cause them to build up. So that's really what my goal, this episode,

is to go through those things, talk about the different.

There's four root causes I like to cover for histamine intolerance issues.

But, you know, at the end of the day, it's just like any other topic we cover.

You know, all that's really talked about for histamines are like, take this supplement, cut out this food.

That'll fix your problems.

And that could help with your symptoms. And I'm not saying

not to do that. Because, you know, if you say you react terribly gelatin, you don't want to torture

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