Re: nettle leaf
Thanks for the response.
>>In fact many foods are naturally antihistamine including yellow onions, watercress, green leafy vegetables, citrus fruits, squash, strawberries, tomatoes, deep cold water fish, etc.
Interesting and, as always, good to know.
>>Even without these foods if your adrenals are healthy the epinephrine released from the adrenals will control histamine levels.
Those with allergies - are the adrenals necessarily impaired? Did you not once write that you were allergic to milk from birth? Are you still allergic?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinephrine
>>Epinephrine, widely called adrenaline, is a hormone and neurotransmitter.[1] When produced in the body it increases heart rate, contracts blood vessels and dilates air passages
And this is supposed to be a good thing? Air passage constriction??
>>and participates in the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system.
Seems that would be more toward the flight vs. the fight. Hmm...
>>[2] It is a catecholamine, a monoamine produced only by the adrenal glands from the amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine.
I assume one needs to be ingesting enough of these aminos. (?) Are any amino acids produced within the body without the intake of foods, etc., which contain them? That's probably a really dumb question.