In this post, I share five healthier home tips to make your home your safe haven from environmental triggers. If you have Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS), or another chronic illness, then conventional building materials, technology, and cleaning products are problematic for people with sensitive constitutions.
10 Genius Cooking Tools for MCAS
In this post, I share the ten cooking tools for MCAS. When you have Mast Cell Activation (MCAS) or a health condition that requires a special diet it helps to have some basic cooking tools to make cooking easier. You don’t need to invest a huge amount of money to have useful cooking tools, and I provide ideas for making these key purchases more economical.
How to Avoid Unhealthy Plastics
I’ve been trying to eliminate all unhealthy plastics in my life because I have elevated thyroid titers. In a prior post, I explored BPA and BPS in plastics. This is an update on that post to include new information I’ve learned in my quest for health!
The Magic of Anti-Histamine Foods
Have you heard of anti-histamine foods? When you have Mast Cell Activation Syndrome or MCAS, the key to success is to find the foods you can tolerate. Foods that are high in histamine should generally be avoided, but your individual constitution will determine what you can tolerate. Foods that are low in histamine are generally considered safe. And then there are foods that actually lower histamine or anti-histamine foods. When you include anti-histamine foods in your meals you can ameliorate some of the negative effects of eating higher histamine foods.
Understanding Atmospheric Pressure Changes and MCAS
This winter I’ve experienced a lot more issues with changes in atmospheric pressure than ever before. And in fact, on the day of this writing, we are experiencing in the Midwest what is called a Bomb Cyclone, which is a meteorological event of an extreme drop in barometric pressure. So I am devoting this post to sharing the information I’ve learned about what happens to your body when you experience atmospheric pressure changes, and what can help with the attendant discomfort.
This Lower Histamine Stuffing is Pure Comfort
Here is my recipe for lower histamine stuffing! With the holidays approaching I am gearing up to have my favorite comfort foods on hand. With histamine intolerance, that means a bit of pre-planning so that I can make and freeze portions of my favorite foods.
Fail Proof Lower Histamine Gravy Recipe
This lower histamine gravy recipe makes a satisfying vegan keto-friendly sauce for holiday meals. With the holidays coming up I like to have a batch of this gravy on hand in frozen portions in my freezer.
Breakthrough Detoxing with MCAS
Detoxing with MCAS needs to be specialized. From genetic testing, I know that I carry gene variants that make it more difficult for my body to detoxify. Yet I feel better when I have less inflammation and less toxic load on my body. I’ve run into problems trying to detoxify because the typical methods of detoxification can cause mast cell activation.
How To Make Amazing Lower Histamine Latkes
I developed this recipe for lower histamine latkes in my quest to find delicious lower histamine Keto diet-friendly replacements for one of our family favorites, Jewish Hannukah potato pancakes. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Ingredient notes for these lower histamine latkes Last year before I switched to a Keto diet I […]
Super Tangy Lower Histamine Lemon Bars
This is a new lower histamine lemon bar recipe I’ve developed that is sugar-free, gluten-free, lower in histamine and oxalates, and Keto-diet friendly.