@Beachbum Yes stop eating ground beef. Keep in mind that any food air touch starts decaying it quicker. Ground beef has every little tiny piece exposed to air and then put back together for it to breed. It is much higher in histamines than a plain old piece of meat. I don’t eat precut stew meat either, or precut fruit, grated cheese, none of it. If I use ground beef I buy it intended to be sold frozen. Grocery stores will freeze meat that is near spoiled in the refrigerator case so stay clear of those packages. Fish if it is not gutted immediately upon being caught accumulates histamines quickly. I don’t know the mechanism for why, but we know in general how much quicker seafood spoils and how deathly allergic people can be to it. I was told by a man who was a fisherman who owned a meat market seafood restaurant that fish that smells fishy means it is old. He said fish should smell sweet and he put various pieces of fish that were caught that morning to my nose for me to smell and proved it. I never liked or ate fish before that moment because of the fishy taste, but have loved seafood ever since only eating it real fresh. Things like canned tuna are real high in histamines.
I would get rid of the cereal Susan and anything in a box. Avoid anything with citric acid in it too, everybody should, because it is lab made from aspergillis?which is black mold.
Giving up my Cheerios and Rice Crispies was the most difficult of all foods for me to give up. It has made me stronger for doing it though physically and mentally. In giving it up I have been rewarded with so much more healing and good health and it strengthened my willpower.
What I have access to may be different from you and what is worth my spending my money on is too so making a list is tough. The online histamine intolerant websites are contradictory as well which left me having to figure it out myself. With that being said I would suggest starting one day with just three foods and doing that for a couple of days and see how you feel and then add another and wait a couple of days. It was hard at first, but I would rather be happy with those three things then to keep suffering. Strategies like my straining the lactic acid out of my cottage cheese and yogurt through a coffee filter makes a big difference, maybe even see what comes out of your ricotta. The difference in melons are big. Watermelon is much safer than the other melons. The other melons breed mold in those seed centers. Ray Peat said, and I agree, that some high histamine foods have so much healing power that it is worth pushing through symptoms to get some healing eating them in small amounts. Don’t push through symptoms for the pleasure of negative foods.
Here are things I remember were my safe things for you to start with …
*Candied ginger *stinging nettle leaf (not root) *Grass-fed steak, soft cheese like goat and ricotta *organic boiled red potatoes, parsnips, broccoli, rainbow carrots, white sweet potatoes and artichokes with butter *organic coffee with cream and sugar *Haagen Daz coffee ice cream *corn & soy free egg yolks (no whites) *organic blueberries (fresh if they are firm otherwise frozen), *organic oats
I don’t remember eating oats, but they would be better than anything with corn. I made a lot of beef stew back then with pot roast and kept it simple with just beef and onions and added in white sweet potato and herbs at the end. I took a thermos with me to parties and other places away from home so I wouldn’t feel bad eating whatever mysterious ingredients were in other people’s foods. Eventually after I stuck with the same foods and got continually better I added in more high quality foods. I can eat anything now and have never any symptoms of any sort for years now which is practically a miracle since Histamine Tolerance is a tough one. I don’t think I would be over it if it weren’t for my Ray Peat diet.
A couple of other things get out slide and ground yourself with yours house off. Grounding boosts the immune system like nothing else. Stick with showers, no baths, and keep the water not too hot. Hot water raises histamines quite a bit. I take active minute shower and do a pure cold rinse at the end. I am careful about my soap and shampoo as well. I buy a simpler shampoo and water it down, I use an oat and coconut oil soap bar and fluoride free toothpaste and don’t use lotions or perfume. It is a lot to get myself back to where nature intended and took me awhile one step at a time. For every little change is a reward so don’t be overwhelmed. Be excited that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that you are not powerless in this.
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“In one of the studies in which rats had been taught learned helplessness so they would drown in five or six minutes, just being able to see another rat escape would let the informed rat go for days without drowning. Just the recognition that someone else did it can make all the difference.” Ray Peat
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