Tessamet helps decrease your histamine production. This may alleviate symptoms in your sinuses and lungs, skin, digestive system and brain.
Histamine is a hormone and a neurotransmitter. It has receptors all throughout your body.
There are 4 classes of histamine receptors: H1, H2, H3 and H4.
H1 and H2 go to the skin, digestive system and lungs, giving classic allergy symptoms. Itchy or painful skin, food allergies, asthma and sinus inflammation. They also go to your heart and the reproductive organs. This means you can have an allergy heart, an allergic prostate, an allergic uterus.
H3 receptors in the brain control the release of neurotransmitters. If body levels of histamine go too high, to protect the brain from toxic levels of histamine (and mania), H3 will LOWER histamine in the brain. This can lower the level of the neurotransmitters acetylcholine, dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine and GABA.
- Low acetylcholine makes it hard to learn and remember.
- Low dopamine decreases motivation and in the extreme leads to Parkinson’s disease.
- Low serotonin leads to depression.
- Low Norepinephrine leads to difficulty focusing and ADHD.
- Low GABA makes it hard to relax or get deep sleep.
Excessive histamine can activate H1 and H2 receptors in the skin causing rashes, itching and nerve pain. If the nerves of the sexual organs are affected, what should be experienced as pleasure can be uncomfortable instead.
H1 and H2 receptors are found in the digestive tract. Excess histamine can lead to acid reflux, gas, stomach aches or loose stools.
High levels of histamine can activate:
- H1 and H2 receptors in the lungs and sinuses causing respiratory and sinus issues.
- H4 receptors in the bone marrow and immune system leading to dysfunctional immunity.
- H1 and H2 receptors in the heart leading to arrhythmias and high or low blood pressure. Yes, a person can have an allergic heart.
To properly deal with histamine, 4 actions must be undertaken:
- Re-educate the T cells of your immune system, so it does not react to harmless allergens.
- Suppress the over creation of histamine from the dietary amino acid histidine.
- Stabilize mast and other cells that release histamine.
- Increase serum DAO (diamine oxidase), the enzyme responsible for breaking down histamine.
Mast cells are an ancient part of our immune system predating antibodies. For some people, mast cells over-react to normal environmental elements and cause problems. They can also release prostaglandins, leukotriene, tumor necrosis factor, trypase and heparin. Stabilizing mast cells is important in maintaining health.
