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we'll catch up with you at the end of the video. Eric Bakker the naturopath. Thanks for coming
back. Let's talk about histamine and DAO, diamine oxidase. Many people have asked me questions about
mast cell activation syndrome. For example, how do we deal with that and escalating histamine levels?
So many practitioners I've spoken to talk about seeing more and more people with higher
than normal histamine levels. So histamine is a chemical made by the immune system and it's
released by these cells called mast cells. So mast cell activates when it's been stimulated for
any one of 100 different reasons. So histamine serves a very important purpose in the body,
but it can behave like a teenager. It can run out of control and be stimulated far too much.
Histamines can be stimulated through the diet, all right? Particularly through aged foods, leftovers,
and smoke meats, cured meats, vinegars, even foods like sauerkraut. Many foods
push the body to have excessive histamine levels. But these are generally reduced by the diamine
oxidase, which is produced by the kidney, I think the thymus gland, it's also produced in
the small bowel, in various areas in the small bowel. So usually when you eat foods
and they stimulate this histamine response, the histamine's dealt with as it's going down
the gut quite adequately, but sometimes the DAO levels are just not sufficient enough.
I mean I eat all of these foods. I eat smoked meat, especially smoked fish. I like bacon,
not too much bacon, but I eat a bit here and there. I eat sauerkraut. I eat foods
that do stimulate histamine, but I never have a problem with it. And I think it's because my
diamine oxidase enzyme levels are very high. I think there's another enzyme. Histamine...
is it transferase or? There's a couple of different enzymes that work on the histamine.
But remember the mast cell can produce hundreds of types of chemicals and histamine's only one
that we know. It's under the spotlight because it creates the typical allergic reactions we
see in people. If you look at a bee sting, for example. I mean I get stung all the time by bees
because I'm a beekeeper, but I don't even hardly feel it anyway, I just brush it off.
But how do you stimulate the diamine oxidase levels? Well,
you need to look at things like fatty fish. Fatty fish is a really good way to stimulate DAO, like
omega three, for example, taking a good quality omega three supplement will definitely help,
but so will the inclusion of foods that stimulate the intake of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium,
zinc B6, there are many different elements that really help to boost up the DAO level. But just
by eating really plenty of green leafy, deep green leafy vegetables, some almonds, a few Brazil nuts,
some walnuts. These foods will all push the DAO level right up, not a problem at all.
And again, it's just so typical where so many people today say, "You're crazy,
you eat bacon," or, "You're crazy, you eat sauerkraut. My histamine's out of control."
And I say, "Well, let's get your DAO levels up and in control and in charge to pull down
this excess histamine and you won't have a problem." And it works, give it a try.
DAO, we need to get DAO up and histamine down. Thanks for tuning in.
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