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September 2016

Histadelia vs. Histapenia

Histadelia vs. Histapenia

Histadelia vs. Histapenia: Does the Pfeiffer protocol always make sense? Understanding Your Histamine Blood Test Results Histamine is most popularly known for its role in allergic and inflammatory processes, including immediate and delayed hypersensitivity immune reactions. It also serves as a neurotransmitter like serotonin and dopamine, and is therefore involved in alertness, arousal, learning, memory, …

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Histamine and Mental Health

Histamine and Mental Health

How Histamine Imbalance Could be Ruining Your Mood One of the many functions of histamine in the body is to act  as a neurotransmitter, where it helps regulate important brain functions such as alertness, attention, learning, memory, stress response, sleep-wake cycles, and sexual function. When the body’s histamine levels go out of control, many behavioral …

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HER-stamine? The Link Between Histamine and Estrogen

HER-stamine? The Link Between Histamine and Estrogen

The female hormone estrogen may play a role in the development of histamine intolerance. This seems plausible since women consist of the majority who suffer from this. One explanation is that estrogen and histamine reinforce each other which means estrogen triggers histamine release. In turn, histamine causes increased estrogen production. But that is just among …

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Role of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) in Cardiovascular Disease

Role of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) in Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular disease is a major health concern. Multiple co-morbidities are responsible for increasing the cardiovascular risks some of which include hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, smoking and hypertension. [1] All these diseases are directly or indirectly related to the plaque development inside the arteries otherwise known as atherosclerosis. The vascular tone of blood vessels is regulated by the …

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Histamine and Gut Health: The unlikely connection between allergies and our own gut microbes.

Histamine and Gut Health: The unlikely connection between allergies and our own gut microbes.

Histamine and Gut Health: The unlikely connection between allergies and our own gut microbes. If you think the role of histamine is only in allergy and allergic reactions, you’re quite mistaken. Don’t worry, it’s totally normal not to know these things since many of us are not aware of histamine’s other equally important functions, some …

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