The Reluctant Raw Foodist

Are you what you eat?

"I used to be a' foodie' and now I am a "foodist'"

Welcome to my health and wellbeing blog.

I’m not a raw foodist by choice. I was recently diagnosed as having a complicated autoimmune condition including severe Histamine Intolerance and a form of reactive arthritis. I have become hypersensitive to high histamine foods, pollen, dust and some everyday chemicals. My condition affects every area of my life.

I have Mast Cell Activation Disease (MCAD).

I was prescribed a low histamine diet and then a raw food diet to ease my symptoms and over the past 2 years I have overcome my reluctance to a new way of eating and living. I have been experimenting to combine the two diets and I have been learning how to eat a diet comprising mainly of low histamine raw fruit and vegetables and how to change the habits of a life time.

I am starting to feel healthier than I have ever been before. I have also lost 35 lbs in weight.

I will be sharing with you how I got here and I'll be exploring low histamine raw recipes, natural beauty products, how to cope with being "allergic to everything" and generally how to regain health and fitness and live life to the full despite my unusual condition!

Please feel free to message me with any suggestions, questions, or comments. I'd love to hear from you!

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This was a lovely juice made this morning from a large bag of green salad leaves, 3 sticks of celery, some ginger root, and an apple. Unfortunately there was a lot of spinach among the leaves and stupidly I just thought they would probably be ok as I don’t usually eat a lot of spinach but I do eat a very few leaves on occasion. As I started to drink the juice my heart started to race and my chest started to ache. Spinach is high in histamine. No more spinach juice for me! I poured the rest onto my garden as a green fertiliser.

This was a lovely juice made this morning from a large bag of green salad leaves, 3 sticks of celery, some ginger root, and an apple. Unfortunately there was a lot of spinach among the leaves and stupidly I just thought they would probably be ok as I don’t usually eat a lot of spinach but I do eat a very few leaves on occasion. As I started to drink the juice my heart started to race and my chest started to ache. Spinach is high in histamine. No more spinach juice for me! I poured the rest onto my garden as a green fertiliser.

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