Hey everybody. Welcome to this week's episode of Red Pill Your Healthcast. My name is Dr. Charlie Faganholz,

and we are here with Lauren Johnson, everyone's favorite, favorite nurse practitioner. And we have a topic

that is a very broad topic. And we just want to basically shine some light on a word or a topic that is turned

into a buzzword. So Lauren, let the people know what topic we're going to talk about and then we'll do a

deep dive for them. Okay. So we are going to talk about histamine today. This word, you might

recognize it from some regular medications

that a lot of people take called anihistamines. And these anihistamines are thrown around

as if they are just benign drugs that help, but don't have any side effects. But we actually

do know that these anihistamines do have especially long-term use do have side

effects but the bigger issue is why are you needing these anihistamines histamine is such a big

factor in today's world and it's part of the modern world we live in some of the environmental

exposures we'll talk about later, but it's,

histamine intolerance or histamine issues don't exist in a vacuum. Like, it's not there by

itself. And that is the problem. It's there because of other things that are present.

And so we need to understand that histamine is important. You don't want to

not have histamine. If you don't have enough histamine, that can slow your wound healing,

your immune system. You may not be able to mount a fever. It's not a good thing to completely

get rid of all histamine, but we also need a balance. You need it in the right places.

You don't want it being released from the cell. You want it. You also want it being broken down well.

And so we'll talk about how the Dow enzyme is part of that player, is that that mechanism is if

you don't have enough Dow enzyme, then you're not going to be

breaking it down. So even if you have a normal production of histamine, you may not be able to

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