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Histamine and Schizophrenia
Dr Carl Pfieffer of the Princeton Bio Center in New Jersey, found that, having treated over 20,000 schizophrenic patients using nutrient-based orthomolecular medicine, an imbalance of histamine could explain the symptoms of almost two-thirds of patients who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic.
Pfieffer coined the term ‘histapenia’ to describe the low histamine condition and the term ‘histadelia’ to describe elevated levels of histamine.
People with high levels of histamine, or histadelics, tend to suffer obsessions, compulsions, phobias, drug, alcohol or sugar addictions, extreme depression and can be compulsively suicidal. Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland are examples of likely high histamine types who died a suicidal death.
Once a diagnosis of histamine excess or deficiency has been made using a blood test, histadelia and histapenia can be modified using appropriate nutritional supplements.
Some Signs of High Histamine
The more of the following that apply to you the more likely you are to be a high-histamine type.
High histamine types tend to:
• Cry easily
• Hear their pulse in their head on the pillow at night
• Itch and scratch a lot
• Have seasonal allergies
• Have a low pain threshold with regular headaches and other aches and pains
• Produce excessive mucous
• Feel nauseous easily
• Have a high sex drive and easy orgasm
• Experience inner tension or ‘driven’ feelings
• Have episodes of ‘blank mind’
• Suffer with depression and sometimes suicidal thoughts
• Have abnormal fears, compulsions, rituals
• Be a light sleeper or experience severe insomnia
• Appear to tolerate a lot of alcohol or drugs
• Have a fast metabolism with high body temperature.
• Be of lean build with little body hair
• Have a large nose or ears, long fingers and toes (and often a longer second toe than the first)
• Have excellent teeth
Histamine fact file
Histamine:
• is a neurotransmitter that has an important role in the immune response.
• is concentrated in ‘mast’ cells and when released causes itching, increases the permeability of blood vessels and produces swelling and skin reddening.
• plays a regulatory role in muscle contraction and gastric acid secretion.
• increases vasodilation causing symptoms such as hypotension (decreased blood pressure) and tachycardia (increased pulse rate), and causes constriction of the bronchi in the lungs.
• is made from histidine an amino acid or protein fragment.
• intolerance is due to an excess of histamine, which results in a variety of symptoms.
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