POIS Compass

Trigger factor

High-histamine foods

People say fermented or aged foods (leftovers, cheese, wine, apple cider vinegar), citrus, dark chocolate and high-tyramine foods bring insomnia, itching or worse symptoms.

3 remarks

What people said3

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  • “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”