Happy Without Histamine - Histamine Intolerance Nutritionist
Helping you with histamine intolerance. Luanne Hopkinson is a clinical nutritionist and coach focusing on histamine intolerance and MCAS.
Grab your free low histamine food guide – https://hwh.luannehopkinson.net/low-histamine-food-guide I am qualified in naturopathic nutrition and coaching. I focus on teaching clients how to nourish their bodies, using food and lifestyle changes for optimal healing and health. I offer optional functional testing such as Microbiome Mapping, DAO testing, allergy testing, and more to look at the root cause of symptoms. I work as a team with my clients, providing a caring, patient-centered approach to gently support my clients on the road to recovery and healing. Join my free masterclass - The 5-Step Plan to Heal from Histamine Intolerance https://hwh.luannehopkinson.net/5histamine-secrets/masterclass-on-demand
Buy your Happy Without Histamine 4-week meal plan with recipes, prep guides, and shopping lists. Gluten, dairy, soy, nightshade, and legume-free. An easy way to get started on a low histamine diet. http://www.happywithouthistamine.com/landing/
For you sexy vegans there is a delicious plant-based low histamine recipe eBook with a 7-day meal plan. https://bit.ly/3tT1bDs
When a gentle touch feels like pain 🤕
Has this ever happened to you — a waistband 👖, a breeze 💨, even a hug 🤗 feels painful?
This can be a sign of central sensitisation, when the nervous system starts misreading harmless signals as dangerous ⚠️.
The pain is real, even without injury or inflammation ❤️🩹
“Your body remembers how to heal. Sometimes it just needs time, safety and space.” Unknown
Healing doesn’t always follow a straight line.
It’s not about doing more, it’s about creating the right conditions for your body to feel safe again.
Whether you’re working through chronic symptoms, food sensitivities, or nervous system overload…
Give yourself permission to slow down.
✨ Your body isn’t broken. It’s just asking for a different kind of support.
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28/08/2025
What does visceral hypersensitivity feel like?
The symptoms are real, even when test results say everything’s “normal.”
People often describe a mix of unusual gut sensations that:
🔸 Come and go
🔸 Feel intense
🔸 Don’t always match typical triggers
Some common experiences include:
😣 Bloating that feels extreme even after small meals
🔥 Burning in the gut with no clear cause
😕 Pain that doesn’t link to food, stress or inflammation
More subtle (but frustrating) sensations:
🐛 Creepy-crawly feelings or fluttering in the belly
👀 A sense that you can feel everything happening inside your gut
These sensations can feel confusing or even distressing—especially when you’ve already changed your diet or followed treatment plans.
👉🏻 You’re doing everything right… but your symptoms won’t settle.
👉🏻 You’ve cleaned up your diet, followed treatment plans, and tried to reduce stress but your world feels smaller, your symptoms more confusing, and your energy drained.
👉🏻 If you feel like your body is stuck in survival mode, your nervous system might be the missing link.
✨ Imagine knowing exactly what your body needs to feel calm, clear and safe again.
👉🏻 BrainFood is a program to help chronic illness warriors understand their symptoms, calm their nervous system, and reconnect with the life they’ve been missing.
🧠 Learn the science behind symptom patterns
🛠️ Use simple, powerful tools to rewire your system
🌱 Start feeling better in your gut, your mind and your energy
💚 You’re not broken. You’re just ready for a new approach.
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to living low histamine.
And that’s okay.
What matters most is learning what feels right for your body.
That might look like:
🌿 Choosing low histamine foods most of the time
🌿 Learning how full your “histamine bucket” really is
🌿 Supporting your gut gently and consistently
➡️ Is your nervous system behind your gut symptoms?
Here’s how it could be playing a bigger role than you think.
➡️ Your nervous system’s job is to keep you safe.
It watches for threats and responds quickly to pain, injury or danger.
➡️ But if it becomes overly sensitive or stuck in a constant “alert” state…
It can start to react to things that aren’t dangerous at all.
➡️ This is what happens in visceral hypersensitivity.
Your brain starts interpreting normal gut activity as:
💥 Pain
🔥 Discomfort
⚠️ A warning sign
➡️ The result?
You feel like something’s wrong even when digestion is working normally.
And because all of this happens below your conscious awareness,
It can feel confusing, unpredictable, and overwhelming.
🧠 Want to understand more about nervous system dysregulation?
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Hello! I'm Luanne a clinical nutritionist from Melbourne, Australia.
I have histamine intolerance, so I created this page to help others like myself.
Why so happy?
Well, I was miserable with hives, anaphylactic episodes, fatigue, brain fog, skin rash, chills, hot flushes, and digestive disorders and wondering what on earth was wrong with me when I had a lightbulb moment. Maybe it’s histamine!
The next day, I started myself on a low histamine diet. From my training I have some knowledge about the top 10 histamine containing foods and this helped a little bit. So I then delved deep into the research and created my own list. After a few weeks of eating this way I finally started to really feel better. I actually realised I felt happy for the first time in ages.
I tidied up my low histamine list and provided it free to everyone, so that they could have more information about what might be troubling them.
I then received a lot of questions asking me if I knew of any good resources or recipes books that might help. There were a few around but none that I felt covered the full range of foods that needed to be covered. So I created the Ultra Low Histamine meal plan and recipe book. It contains over 55 recipes and 4 weeks of meal plans with shopping lists and prep guides. This will make it so much easier for people to start the diet and not have as many pitfalls as I did.
If this sounds like you, check out the Happy Without Histamine plan and try it for yourself.
I hope you find some support here and if you have questions please send them over, or join the facebook group to get even more support!
