Hello, hello, and welcome to the Root Cause Medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.

Today I'm talking with Dr. Becky Campbell all about histamine intolerance and mass cell activation.

Dr. Campbell is a board certified doctor of natural medicine and author of the 30-day thyroid

reset plan and the four-phase histamine reset plan. She's been featured on

multiple online publications like Mind Body Green, Bustle, Pop Sugar, and more. She's been the guest

on the Mind Pump podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, and many others as a thyroid health and histamine

intolerance expert. It was an absolute pleasure talking with her today,

all about histamine intolerance, as histamine is a huge topic related to several aspects of the body,

like estrogen, migraines, digestive issues, skin issues, and more. Here's a clip from today's

conversation. With histamine intolerance, there are certain foods are actually high

in histamine. So they're adding histamine to your body, or there's some foods that are

breaking down the enzyme that helps us to break down histamine, or there are foods that are

helping us to release the histamine that we already have.

So regardless, you're getting more histamine in the body.

And those foods will cause you to have an increase in your current symptoms or maybe even

some new symptoms.

And this is why with testing for histamine intolerance, I really like to

just use food. I mean, why waste money on a test when there really is no good test for histamine

intolerance? Because histamine in the blood is more of a methylation marker. It's not necessarily

a histamine marker. So what I like to do is add these high histamine foods

for like a couple of days to a week, depending on how long you can tolerate it for,

and then seeing, do you have new symptoms coming up or are your current symptoms increasing,

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