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Methylation is one of the most important chemical processes in the body. It supports histamine breakdown and clearance. Last week we...

Over the last few months, we have been posting on the many mast cell triggers. One of those triggers is toxins. Toxins impact both...

For the next few months, we will be providing you with tips and strategies to help you clear toxins from your body. Peeing and pooping...

How much time have you wasted trying to figure out your unpredictable symptoms? If you have an immediate reaction to something you ate, it makes sense that the food was involved. If you feel awful when someone wearing perfume sits next to you, it makes sense that the perfume was involved. But what about the symptoms that are there all the time? You likely have some symptoms you haven’t been able to correlate to anything. What about the fatigue ? Your pain ? The eczema ?

In recent blog articles we’ve been covering a variety of triggers for MCAS. We’ve covered everything from infections and hormones to...

A leaky bladder is not what you think it is. While incontinence can mean you leak urine, in this blog post we are talking about the leakiness of the bladder lining, not urine leakage. Have you heard of leaky gut ? Just like the gut can be leaky, other barrier tissue in the body can be leaky too. We have already discussed permeability (leakiness) in relation to asthma and eczema , so it might not come as a surprise that this phenomenon can happen in the bladder too. In pre

Let's continue to dive in to the role of histamine and/or mast cell involvement in the scenario of pain. Today, let's talk about pain...

Have you ever experienced sensations of tingling, pricking, chilling, burning, numbness or weakness? What about unexplained stabbing...

Pain is a debilitating symptom. It can have a profound impact on quality of sleep and be correlated to depression ( 1 ). Pain can originate from the nervous system. This is different than pain that comes from injury to tissues such as muscle or bone. When pain comes from the nervous system it is called neuropathic pain or neuropathy . What role does histamine play here? Histamine and histamine receptors play an integral role in neuropathic pain. Histamine is one of the ne

Your nervous system coordinates both actions and sensory information in your body. It is made up of the central nervous system, which...

Following recent blog posts, we continue talking about different potential triggers that may be contributing to your histamine-mediated...

When you start digging in to figuring out what might be behind your own personal histamine mediated troubles, you can so easily go down a...

Since the start of the year, we've been going over different triggers that may be at the root of your histamine or mast cell mediated...

Do you spend much time wondering what you might be breathing in besides air? How about what you are ingesting besides food? Or what about...

We are diving in to those triggers that can be at play when it comes to histamine mediated symptoms. Last week, we went deep into the connection between hormonal imbalances and the role they play in potentiating histamine. Read that post here. This week, let's go deeper into cortisol, and the role that stress can play in the scenario of histamine and mast cell activation. Stress Hormone: Cortisol Cortisol is a hormone in the glucocorticoid family. It’s your body’s main stress

This month, we're diving in to possible triggers to the release of histamine in the body. Today, let's explore the mysterious ways that hormonal imbalances have the potential of increasing your histamine mediated symptoms. Sex Hormones: Estrogen & progesterone If you have struggled with infertility, it’s possible that histamine may be playing a role. While histamine and mast cell activation impact all genders, women tend to feel the impact much more. Mast cell related health

In the last post , we looked at the places in your body that chronic infections might be hiding that can trigger mast cell activation . Today we’ll explain how these pathologies impact mast cells. Infections like Staphylococcos aureus or Escherichia coli ( 1 ) or even Candida albicans ( 2 ) (the yeast commonly associated with vaginal yeast infections or oral thrush) contain substances that can bind to toll-like receptors on mast cells . Malaria and non-typhoidal Salmonel

Over the next months we are taking a close look at some of the factors that can trigger the onset of histamine and mast cell symptoms,...

After all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, a cup of tea with a delicious cookie on the side is the perfect way to unwind. ...

This month, we're shaking it up a little. We're sharing our favourite low-histamine tweaks on seasonal favourites. Make sure to scroll...