Trigger factor
Particular foods
People name kinds of food that make things worse: carbs and sugar, seasonings and additives, junk and fried food, meat, eggs and dairy, gluten, soy and oxalates, high-histamine foods.
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What people said11
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- “Avoiding large amounts of carbohydrates and eating more but smaller portions is key in my opinion, pois worsen my idiopathic hyperinsulinemia because they release of food in the stomach in affected there is a misfire between insulin release and uptake of carbs.”
- “Avoid caffeine and sweets”
- “for some reason all those mono-amines make me high AF and usually cause itch and insomnia. This is of course because of leaky gut and vasculair permeability. Eating them later in the day is the worst thing i can do because histamine metabolism got a 24 hour cycles so at the end of the day the system get overloaded with histamine again.”
- “ACV also was taken throughout history... it contains ridicilious amounts of histamine ( of fermentation ) which causes histamine overload... Eating them later in the day is the worst thing i can do because histamine metabolism got a 24 hour cycles so at the end of the day the system get overloaded with histamine again.”
- “Ya the histamine is high and it caused me bad insomnia”
- “Yea, same happens here.. I also have to beware of certain foods.. like fries, milk, cheese..”
- “the symptoms were less harsh when I stopped eating meat compared to when I started eating it again.”
- “Yea, same happens here.. I also have to beware of certain foods.. like fries, milk, cheese..”
- “I control it with ginger pills these days though and avoiding caffeine, spicy foods, sugar, etc.”
- “Spicy foods makes POIS worse.”
- “Sleeping on your back... Avoid spicy food... Avoid pornography... Reduce your stress levels... Excessive sexual stimulation to be avoided.”