12/02/2026
Noticed your body feeling reactive and sensitive to foods, alcohol, heat, stress, supplements?
Flushing, anxiety, broken sleep, headaches, gut issues, new food sensitivities — many women experience these shifts during perimenopause and are told everything is “normal”.
But there’s a powerful connection that’s rarely discussed:
your changing hormones can directly influence histamine and mast cell activity.
As oestrogen fluctuates, it can stimulate histamine release and reduce your ability to break it down — creating a cycle that can leave you feeling wired, inflamed, and unlike yourself especially at ovulation AND/or right before or when bleeding.
The good news.. We can support the body with targeted nutrition and herbs that
- activate an enzyme - DAO, that helps break down histamine,
- Balance hormones
- calm the inflammatory response
- reduce the stress on the body
I’ve written a new article explaining this hormone–histamine connection and what you can do about it. 💙🩵💙