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The Wellness Mama Podcast

Histamine Intolerance, Remedies and Recovery with Steven Wright

Mar 17, 2025
56:18

Episode Highlights With Steven

  • How he was a histamine denier and what he found out that changed everything
  • The equation of this… histamine isn’t a bad thing. You don’t want too much or too little
  • Histamine must be balanced with an enzyme called DAO. When it gets out of balance, we can have symptoms.
  • Signs and symptoms of histamine intolerance and how they overlap with seasonal allergies and stress
  • Yeast and histamine connection 
  • Histamine and autoimmune connection and how they overlap. The links with genetics here as well.
  • With histamine intolerance, even some healthy foods can temporarily be problematic 
  • The problem with leftovers if you have histamine issues 
  • Problems occur when we make too much histamine or don’t break it down with DAO
  • How he recovered completely from seasonal allergies and helped his wife do this as well
  • DAO can help with carsickness in kids as well 
  • Butyrate is the key molecule for the gut and what we're learning about this, as well as how it might be more important than probiotics for gut health 
  • Butyrate is not something we produce 
  • Enzymes can be more helpful for gut health than probiotics, and it's a both and equation 
  • We actually do not want a “strong” immune system, we want a balanced immune system
  • What parabiotics are and how they uniquely affect the body and immune system

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