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IBS, gluten intolerance – or Histamine Intolerance?
If you have been diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), then you may realise it is a bit of a non diagnosis, usually accompanied by the words "go away and live with it". What it really means is that the usual tests have not shown up anything physiologically obvious or sinister. The medical profession usually leave it there, and it is up to the patient to look further into it if they wish. Once you do that, there is an array of possible causes of IBS - bacterial dysbiosis of the gut; candida overgrowth in the gut; SIBO - small intestinal bacterial overgrowth; food intolerances (which I looked at two weeks ago in my Newsletter); histamine intolerance ; and medicines that cause IBS.
Today I am going to take a closer look at histamine intolerance, which has a history of being under diagnosed, and may be the reason your IBS or Gluten Intolerance does not go away.
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