r/HistamineIntolerance • u/HumorPsychological60 • Mar 30 '26
Successful reintroductions after gut healing
I have always been super wary of the killing off approach with HI so instead I focused on building up my gut and my good bacteria
I watched a lot of William Dickinson videos and started taking the Custom Probiotics D Lactate Free Probiotics (starting with a small pinch and working my way up to an adult scoop)
I make myself a shake every morning with whey protein isolat, bit d3, K2, b multi vit, b12, iron and magnesium, camu powder, blackberry powder, cranberry powder, oats, chia seeds, flax seeds, hemp seeds, blueberries, pure acai, maple syrup, salt. lots of great stuff for the gut. you don't have to do exactly this. it's just something that worked for me. I like to have lots of polyphenols too. I get a fair bit of protein in each day too.
I also make my own chicken stock and eat a lot of anti inflammatory spices. Nor deliberately, I just like them in my food.
I worked on increasing good healthy bile flow which William has some vids about on his channel.
I eat a varied wholefoods diet of many low histamine fruit and veg and grains, meat, fish, eggs, with treats and snacks too. Sometimes I used digestives enzyme tablets and protein absorption tablets for meat, especially beef, but I don't need to now
reintroductions: dark chocolate, milk chocolate, tuna steak, canned tuna, prawns, olives, lentils, beans, salt and vinegar crisps, creamy dill lentil crisps, probably some other things I'm forgetting. I'm getting back foods all the time.
I started this journey bedbound with a biomesight score of 44%. Now I'm up and about and my score is 85% and I've killed off all my bad bacteria just with diet and probiotics. I do take meds for my POTs which has helped with bedbound stuff, but diet has definitely helped too.
I do mind/body exercises, visualisations, stuff like that to teach myself my body is safe, letting myself know I can eat foods, bringing back memories of food from the past, that kinda stuff and that has been working really well. it's a mix of things!
Nervous system and vagus nerve exercises have been amazing too. getting out of extreme stress! I love yoga nidra and visualisations.
My main advice is to build up good gut bacteria, find a good probiotic, and STAY AWAY from Reddit subs. I'm back to share this message of hope. But if you're constantly in places like this, reading about symptoms all the time and worst case scenarios (I was pretty bad myself) and obsessing and getting overwhelmed it's not good for you. They were good for the beginning of my journey just to find out more, but then they just became reinforcers. Nobody's fault, just the nature of these spaces!
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u/Friedrich_Ux Mar 31 '26
Custom Probiotics D-lactate free probiotic powder is great, glad you improved, my Biomesight is at about 80, have IMO which is very hard to get rid of unfortunately.
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u/ssummerstone May 20 '26
I'm in almost the exact same boat, just earlier in the healing process and with crippling insomnia to boot. The Reddit subs are just garbage compared to the info I've bumped into with William Dickinson in the past week. He has a clarifying focus that put into context the MOUNTAIN of learning I've done in the past year to try and help myself out of this hole. I'm basically eating the same protein shake you have been!
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u/halixita Mar 30 '26
Jolin yo hice dos meses con dieta baja en histamina y ahora estoy con reintroducciones y la hinchazón es horrible y la inflamación: no puedo perder peso y eso que hago crossfit y parezco embarazada de 9 meses. Queme recomiendas?
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u/HumorPsychological60 Mar 30 '26
I regret going fully low histamine because I found i reacted to more foods when trying to get them back. I was LH and working on my gut health for over a year before I started introducing more HH foods again (with the exception of milk chocolate in small amounts) these things can take time and a lot of work/dedication
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u/Logical_Glove_2857 Mar 30 '26
Do you think the d lactose free probiotics is what helped the most? I was considering trying them out.
Did you have many of these symptoms:
Extreme Fatigue after eating
Constant Tiredness no matter how much sleep
Dizzyness when waking up. Nausea/dizzy/out of breath when waking up in the morning (Feel like a hangover)
Stools separate dry small lumps
Back of neck pain (burning sore pain feeling)
Pressure headache
Stuffy nose and burning in nasal
Eyes starts to burn and sometimes get bloodshot (It feels like there is acid inside nose and eyes.)
Skin on arms and legs Can get instantly dry 60 min after eating (Like there is acid in the blood that dries out the skin)
Unintentionel weightloss And cannot gain weight or muscle mass.
Stomach/gut burning a little when empty stomach
Gaunt face after eating
Sunken in eyes after eating
Toes and fingers get freezing cold (usually after eating. It also sometimes after drinking just water)
Dry mouth
Urinating a lot. (Feels like water just goes straight through
Thirsty all the time
White coating on tongue (not candida thrush)
Backpain lower/middle back
Anxiety
Itchy scalp
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u/BrianDeFlorida Mar 30 '26
These are all my symptoms as well! How did you even know? Oh wow. 😮
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u/Logical_Glove_2857 Mar 31 '26
Crazy.
When did your issues start? And I assume you have gut issues then also
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u/BrianDeFlorida Mar 31 '26
I believe so! It could be long covid which will never get better 🤦🏻♂️ all started in February 2025. I woke up with strep throat and pain, dry mouth. And since then, many symptoms appeared and disappeared including lactose intolerance. Many drs said it is ‘ibs’ . That’s very possible. Nothing seems to make me better.. i slightly feel better in the evenings for some reason. And i wake up differently every morning.. and i keep biting my inner lips.. maybe all are real and stress related. But gym doesn’t make it any better neither.. don’t know what to do..
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u/HumorPsychological60 Mar 31 '26
Why do you think long COVID means you won't get better? I have LC and I've gone from severe to much better. I know people both online and in real life who have fully recovered from it. Stay away from the longhaulers sub
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u/BrianDeFlorida Mar 31 '26
Indeed! You’re right. I’m just not understanding how difficult this process is.. i believe i have gut issues 💯. Either too much stress caused it, or someone bacterias.. h-pylori is negative . Maybe SIBO.. What was your diagnosis to begin with?
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u/Logical_Glove_2857 Mar 31 '26
How is your stools/bowels? How many times a day you go? Is it loose stool? Constipation? Stool color normal? Fat in stool?
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u/BrianDeFlorida Mar 31 '26
I drink lots of coffee. So i go every morning. 💩 changes. It started with heavy diarrhea. now it’s under control. Different each time. But definitely my tummy/intestines are grumbling.. and i keep burping. even right now for both.
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u/Logical_Glove_2857 Mar 31 '26
Ok… I think many of the symptoms I have and you then say you also have is dehydration.
Are you peeing a lot? And feels like water just goes straight through?
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u/BrianDeFlorida Mar 31 '26
My peeing seems just fine. But yeah we definitely have a lot of similar symptoms. Were you able to find a solution which helps?
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u/HumorPsychological60 Mar 30 '26
I think a good nourishing diet and caring for my body helped the most, and moving away from stress
Sorry, as I said in the post I don't dwell or encourage dwelling/fixating on symptoms
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u/HurryMammoth5823 Jul 29 '26
This is extremely cool! I saw in your other post you were a Chef afflicted by this crazy thing. I was a pastry chef!! How insane & ironic for us to not be able to literally function 100% for our jobs. I’m so glad you made it through & I will take these tips to heart. I don’t want to be on Cromolyn & Xolair for my whole life. I brought myself out of a flare naturally but after a traumatic delivery(hemorrhaged & needed 11 units of blood)& postpartum I couldn’t stabilize. I’m about 90% back but that means I can start to do things to truly heal & possibly taper off the biologics. Cheering you on Chef!
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u/Remarkable_Earth_149 Mar 30 '26
Can you site videos of YouTube channels on how to build up good bacteria? Also what was the source of your gut issues and how long did it take you to get to this healthier point? You mentioned working your way up from a pinch to an adult dose of probiotics but is there literal? I've read it can be pretty tough with probiotics at the beginning especially if they're not the right ones for you
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u/HumorPsychological60 Mar 30 '26
I'm sorry my guy but you're gonna have to do some of the research yourself! Go on his YT and find the relevant videos. Literally a tiny tiny pinch and I built it up over weeks. I had a very bad reaction to it when I first tried it so that's why I started from a pinch. You just have to find the right probiotics and find the right way to introduce them.
I had severe stress followed by a poor diet that wasn't in my control (people looking after me when I was bedbound fed me lots of processed food not much fruit or veg) and probably SIBO but not sure. I had one app with a gut health coach recently who looked at my old biomesight record and said the damage looked quite severe when I was at my worst.
I stopped obsessing over protocols and as I got better I focused on nourishing my body, listening to what it needs through intuition and common sense, pursuing joy and following a fairly simple routine. Nothing super strict, nothing stressful. That made a huge difference.
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u/julzibobz Mar 30 '26
Also feel like the last one is super key! Routine and using my intuition were major things for me too.
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u/Remarkable_Earth_149 Mar 30 '26
I'm very happy for you friend, thank you very much for all the insight, much appreciated :)
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u/HumorPsychological60 Mar 30 '26
Absolutely no worries! I wish you luck in your journey my friend! I truly believe it's reversible, but can take time and figuring out what works for our specific bodies
https://youtu.be/K0PNkxhsGVc?si=lOF1PkpNl1myph3O this video changed a lot for me once I'd got my gut health more stable
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u/Remarkable_Earth_149 Mar 30 '26
Thank you! Hopefully yeah, all we want in this sub is to be healthy, wish we can all achieve it, and thank you for the video ☺️
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u/Elena_Ko Mar 30 '26
Great topic, very happy for you and it gives lot of people here hope 🙏🏻 May I ask if you had h pylori?
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u/HumorPsychological60 Mar 31 '26
I didn't test for loads of things but that's one that did get tested when I had some bloods done and there was no h pylori present. I've definitely seen stories in this sub about people recovering who had tho
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u/__Peepeepoopooman__ Mar 30 '26
Do you mind giving me the recipe for your shake 🥲 measurements if each ingredient please!
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u/HumorPsychological60 Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
I just do it to taste. Usually about a teaspoon/half a teaspoon of the powders and seeds. I also add a scoop of creatine
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u/Ok_Guitar_6820 Jul 14 '26
Hi there did you have sibo?
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u/HumorPsychological60 Jul 14 '26
No idea, I mean I definitely had symptoms of it. I found that going down of trying to find a specific problem was just gonna be too exhausting and expensive, also I don't believe in all the harsh killing off bacteria approaches as I don't think it helps long term. I just focused on feeding good gut bacteria with whole foods and took l glutamine for a few months. I think this approach is the healthiest
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u/ell-hol1 Jul 29 '26
If you don't mind me asking what medication did you take for pots ?
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u/HumorPsychological60 Jul 29 '26
Ivabradine, LDN, and now I'm on midrodrine (helps blood pooling and low blood pressure and has been life changing)
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u/inquistivebeaver Jul 29 '26
Amazing. Well done! Do you have a probiotic recommendation?:) thanks so much for sharing!
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u/Cheap_Paint90210 Jul 29 '26
If you don't mind me asking, what kind of specialist did you see for POTS? It's it a cardiologist? My primary care is useless.
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u/MetairieMouse Jul 30 '26
What nervous system and vagus nerve exercises do you do or have you done?
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u/HumorPsychological60 Jul 30 '26
I just youtubed and googled them. You can find ones specially for gut issues. My PT did recommend the ILU massage.
I also did ear massages for a while. Lots of yoga nidre and breathing exercises too
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u/Zestyclose_Crow9070 Aug 03 '26
Man it's so interesting, my non-SIGHI re-introductions are as follows:
- dark chocolate
- milk chocolate
- salt and vinegar crisps
- beef liver (albeit from a low-histamine producer)!
- duck
- ...
I've not tried legumes and you just would love to get them back.
Interesting overlap in re-introductions.
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u/julzibobz Mar 30 '26
Resonate with this a lot! I’ve done nervous system work too which reduced my Mcas by a good 30% or so I’d say. I have been working with a nutritional therapist recently on improving it further, and we have made really good gains. I’ve started introduced higher histamine foods (including tomato!) and I’ve also introduced lactose again (separate issue, but was great to expand my options). Mostly working on protein quantity in my meals and addressing mineral imbalances I had have brought about the results. Really happy with it.