Re: Is histamine intolerance related to Adrenal Fatigue?

I personally have two possible theories why this happens.

One is that your body always reacted the same in presence of the offending foods but was able to counteract the inflammation by releasing cortisol to supress all the symptoms. So, the inflammatory trigger was always there but you just never felt it. When cortisol production is not sufficient you become sensitive to the same triggers and now they produce symptoms.

The second theory is very scary and I hope I'm wrong here.
Low adrenal function is strongly linked to various autoimmune disorders.

"Cortisol not only affects the redness and swelling of inflammation, but also influences the activity of the white blood cells that cause the inflammation and helps keep immune reactions in balance. It both activates existing immune defense mechanisms when they are needed and also damps them down to prevent them from overshooting and causing damage or cell death. Through this ‘damping down’ action, cortisol modulates the immune response to help reduce the amount of potentially toxic chemicals secreted by white blood cells that produce tissue inflammation. Healthy adrenal function and cortisol output is therefore essential for minimizing damage from uncontrolled inflammation brought about by autoimmune processes. During adrenal fatigue, it is less likely that your adrenal glands can produce enough cortisol to adequately counter these autoimmune inflammatory reactions."

I don't know the precise mechanism how cortisol is involved in modulating the immune system activity but it appears that the immune system just gets kinda confused about who is the bad guy and freaks out about everything. It's like a vietnam vet with PSTD trying to function in normal society.
He attacks the irritants in food, pollen, chemicals like the ones in lotions and shampoos first, then it starts to attack the body's own tissues like producing some red patches on your skin just because you had a fight with the nieghbors on that particular day and stuff like that. Any stressor (environmental, chemical, physical or psychological) seems to set off an immune response because the body ran out of the stress counteracting hormones. It's just my theory. What do you think?...

It ties in the nervous system with the immune system via the low adrenal hormone function in the context of AF.

The reason why it scares me is because that's exactly the same thing that happened to my husband - started with AF and ended up with an autoimmune hell near death. It was over 10 years ago when not too many people knew anything about AF including him. He later told me about what happened to him then and it looks like what is happening to me now. Scary.

The strange thing in my case is that all my other AF symptoms are improving except for the food and chemical sensitivities. I get this gross post nasal drip all the time too. And I've never been allergic to a damn thing in my whole life! Tweet