Unraveling Histamine Intolerance: Insights from Food Polls

Navigating the complex world of histamine intolerance can be challenging, especially with so many 🤔 foods.

As we know, the uncertainty stems from lots of factors: fluctuating histamine levels in foods, varying individual reactions, limited research and testing, and wildly differing opinions on histamine levels in food.

This ambiguity raises the question: how can we make sense of it all?

Enter my Food Polls. (Click on the Food polls tab on my Instagram profile)

Over the years, I’ve engaged you in polls to gather insights on those seemingly random and contradictory medium-rated histamine foods. While not scientifically rigorous, these polls offer valuable, real-world perspectives.

Remember, just because they’re not conducted in a lab doesn’t strip them of their usefulness.

These polls are a collective effort, asking numerous people to share their experiences with specific foods.

They should be viewed as an informal guide, a conversation starter with your practitioner, and a source of communal learning. I always approach the results with a pinch of salt, combining them with my own testing.

Personally, the insights from these polls have been useful. For example, nutritional yeast emerged as a potential histamine trigger for me, something I had never considered before. These revelations can lead to further investigation and personal experimentation.

There are surprises too. Take sushi, for example. I still steer clear of it, despite a nearly even split in the poll results, showing that many with histamine intolerance still enjoy it.

The only sushi I eat these days are the boring ones with the cucumber in the middle, with no soy sauce!

Remember, use these polls as a bit of fun, an informal guide in your histamine journey.