#108 - Histamine, Ferments & Traditional Foods

Bone broth, sauerkraut, milk kefir – fundamentals of an ancestral diet and foods that we know do us good.

So what do you do if actually they're making you ill?

Histamine is a word that most of us have heard of and, thanks to the proliferation of health news, were also probably aware of histamine intolerance.

In this episode we will deal head-on with histamine and how it interacts with an ancestral diet. We'll explain what histamine is and the problems it can cause. We'll explore which staple ancestral foods are high in histamine and discuss alternatives that we can turn to if histamine is an issue for us.

Alison will share her own journey, eating low histamine for much of last year and, most importantly, we'll talk about how is possible to heal from histamine issues whilst continuing to eat traditionally.

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