Episode Highlights With Steven

• How he was a histamine denier and what he found out that changed everything
• The equation of this… histamine isn’t a bad thing. You don’t want too much or too little
• Histamine must be balanced with an enzyme called DAO. When it gets out of balance, we can have symptoms.
• Signs and symptoms of histamine intolerance and how they overlap with seasonal allergies and stress
• Yeast and histamine connection 
• Histamine and autoimmune connection and how they overlap. The links with genetics here as well.
• With histamine intolerance, even some healthy foods can temporarily be problematic 
• The problem with leftovers if you have histamine issues 
• Problems occur when we make too much histamine or don’t break it down with DAO
• How he recovered completely from seasonal allergies and helped his wife do this as well
• DAO can help with carsickness in kids as well 
• Butyrate is the key molecule for the gut and what we're learning about this, as well as how it might be more important than probiotics for gut health 
• Butyrate is not something we produce 
• Enzymes can be more helpful for gut health than probiotics, and it's a both and equation 
• We actually do not want a “strong” immune system, we want a balanced immune system
• What parabiotics are and how they uniquely affect the body and immune system

Resources Mentioned

• HistaHarmony supplement
• HoloImmune