Re: Isocort

Hi paulette,

I too take a daily diary of food etc...i have noticed that i generally get a 'symptom delay'...so if i have cheese or other high histamine foods i will feel the effects the next day. The day i have a histamine food i can feel calm too. Have a look again at your notes to see how you were feeling the next day after histamine foods. High protein, like meats, especially fish, release histamine so also look how you felt the next day after a fish meal.

The copper and histamine link i am still trying to figure out - some people find that taking copper helps prevent their high histamine release:

http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/copper-your-hair-mineral-tes...


With the gene test - 23andme is very cheap and you get thousands of results. So if you are able to research and take on board the info it's the cheapest route to go - but it is a lot of work to figure out on your own and i'm still wading through my results which are the most important to my current condition.
I would recommend going with Ben Lynch or Yasko -(personally i prefer lynch, yasko's products are expensive)...however they do gene test which are for a few genes - altho' they are important genes. The added advantage is that you work with a practitioner who has working knowledge and understanding of mutations rather than having to learn it from hundreds of hours of research. You might find on Ben Lynch's site links to other practitioners doing the work he does - email him and ask as he's very helpful.
The downside is that for a few genes and working with a practitioner you're looking at a fair few hundred dollars...but i would go that route if i had the funds. I don't so i went with 23andme and months of research - which i'm still always doing.

High histamine does cause inflammation - which causes all the usual reaction like itching, teary eyes, wheezing etc...and also histamine is a neurotransmitter so that is why is can cause psychological effects and why the Big Pharma started marketing SSRI drugs by using anti-histamine ingredients. They know histamine is linked with psychological imbalances but to have the nation on a histamine lowering diet and supps as Dr. Pfeiffer recommended in the 60's working with thousands of schizophrenics, instead of their expensive psych meds - doesn't financially run a country ;-)

So having low cortisol with high histamine is a double whammy effect as cortisol would be used to antagonise the inflammatory effects of histamine. Another reason for AF...chronic high histamine.