Want effective remedies for anxiety and depression? See under-recognized histamine imbalances
Histamine and methylation imbalance is an under-recognized cause of anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions. When histamine imbalances are properly diagnosed and treated, they can be very effective medications for anxiety and depression. To understand the symptoms of low and high histamine levels, read on.
What is histamine?
Histamine is best known for its involvement in allergic reactions. When released into the body, it causes itching, sneezing, increased mucus production, and nasal congestion. If you suffer from allergies, these common symptoms are all too familiar.
But did you know that histamine can also be involved in mental disorders such as depression and anxiety? Diagnosing and treating these imbalances may be the key to finding effective medications for depression.
Histamine and the brain
Histamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain similar to serotonin and dopamine. Histamine is needed for arousal, alertness, learning, memory, appetite, and pain perception. Histamine imbalance can therefore manifest as mental illness, fatigue, eating disorders, self-harm, or addictive behavior.
Histamine imbalance, anxiety and depression
Low and high histamine levels are associated with many mental disorders, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, autism, alcoholism, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Low histamine is often referred to as histapenia and overmethylation, while high histamine is referred to as histadelia and undermethylation.
Typical signs and symptoms of low histamine (hypermethylation/hystapenia) include:
- depression
- Eczema
- Dry skin
- High anxiety
- Severe panic
- nervousness
- Too suspicious
- High pain tolerance
- Low sex drive
- Hard orgasm
- Fatigue
- Weight gain
Typical signs and symptoms of high histamine (undermethylation/histadelia) include:
- depression
- Allergies
- Headache
- Obsessions
- Phobias
- High internal tension
- Compulsively
- Sensitive to pain
- Cry easily
- High sexual desire
- Stomach pains, cramps, ulcers and nausea
- High metabolism
- High histamine tends to run in families.
If you suffer from depression, anxiety, or another mental disorder, you may have a histamine (or methylation) imbalance. For those who appear to have a genetic weakness, meaning many family members suffer from mental illness, research into high histamine imbalances (undermethylation) should be strongly considered.
Histamine imbalance, once diagnosed, can be treated with nutritional supplements under the guidance of a trained health practitioner. Although histamine imbalances are under recognized causes of mental illness, treating them can lead to powerful treatments for depression.
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