Why Histamine Intolerance May Be at the Root of Your Unexplained Symptoms | Michelle Shapiro, RD
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
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🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
Ep 115. Are you struggling with chronic, unexplained symptoms that no treatment seems to alleviate (and actually makes worse)? Do you feel like your body reacts abnormally to stress or changes in your environment with ‘flares’ of symptoms that come in cycles? Understanding histamine intolerance, also called MCAS or Mast Cell Activation Syndrome may help guide you in the right direction. Michelle Shapiro is a functional dietitian who has helped over 1000+ clients reverse their anxiety and heal long-standing gut and immune issues. In this episode, Michelle unpacks what it means to live in a highly sensitive body (spoiler, she lives in one!) and shares hopeful solutions for those of us who struggle with largely ignored autonomic disorders such as MCAS, POTS and hypermobility.
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HERE’S THE JUICE:
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Michelle’s own story of being sick with a mysterious cluster of symptoms after COVID and mold exposure (and how she healed)
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What MCAS is, the symptoms caused by histamine intolerance and why it’s SO hard to get diagnosed
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The connection between long COVID and MCAS that’s not talked about
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Why MCAS is really a physical “allergy to stress” and nervous system disorder that pushes the immune system into overdrive
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How seemingly healthy treatment plans actually make things worse in people with histamine issues
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What it might mean if you get dizzy easily, have trouble concentrating or experience a racing heart
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Why hypermobility, POTS and MCAS often go together
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How histamine intolerance magnifies anxiety, depression, ADHD and PMDD in women
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Michelle’s loving approach to healing histamine issues and supporting your body gently
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The exact foods to avoid if you have histamine intolerance and how to reduce flares
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Her favorite supplements and herbs that can lower histamine levels
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How to strength train in a way that doesn’t cause more harm
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Why we can’t completely discount pharmaceutical tools like antihistamines when initially healing
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The next steps to take if you think you may have a highly sensitive body
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| 0:00.0 | I'm so excited that this episode is finally here. The histamine episode, I feel like histamine |
| 0:07.3 | intolerance is really blowing up in the wellness and holistic education world. And so many |
| 0:12.9 | people are seeing themselves in this picture of symptoms, including myself. And I have just the |
| 0:19.5 | person for you that is going to break this down and |
| 0:22.8 | help you to understand your body in a way that many of us never have before. |
| 0:28.0 | Are you struggling with chronic unexplained symptoms that no treatment seems to alleviate? |
| 0:33.8 | And in fact, when you do all of the right quote unquote wellness things like supporting detox or |
| 0:39.9 | gut protocols, you actually feel 10 times worse. Have you heard about histamine intolerance or high |
| 0:46.2 | histamine symptoms and feel like this finally makes your body make sense, but you don't understand |
| 0:51.3 | why your body is dealing with such high levels of histamine. |
| 0:55.5 | Today we're doing a deep dive on histamine intolerance, also known as MCAS or mast cell activation |
| 1:01.7 | syndrome. We're going to get into the nitty gritty of why it can cause all of these seemingly |
| 1:06.3 | unrelated symptoms, like a racing heart at night, extreme water retention out of nowhere, |
| 1:12.9 | paradoxical reactions to healthy foods like tomatoes and citrus fruit and strawberries and bone broth. |
| 1:19.2 | Some other symptoms of this picture include hives, splotchy rashes on the skin after something as simple as a hot shower, |
| 1:27.1 | dizziness, insomnia, depression, |
| 1:30.2 | alternating diarrhea and constipation, lots of gut issues, and especially nausea. |
| 1:35.6 | And are you someone who experiences these symptoms in flares where sometimes they're present |
| 1:41.3 | and you are just getting knocked down by your body and you look puffy and swollen and you can tell that you're not okay in your eyes. |
| 1:48.2 | And then other times of the month or the year, you feel totally fine and can't figure out why. |
| 1:53.6 | If this is you, you've probably been living with discomfort in your body for years that you've just come to think of as normal because you've |
| 2:01.8 | had to just learn how to live with these strange symptoms and learn how to do your things |
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