How much Histidine? Dermatitis and FLG mutations
Today’s post is not about autism, it is about allergy and atopic dermatitis in particular. Many people are affected by atopic dermatitis (AD), also known as eczema; it is particularly common in those with autism. Children who develop asthma have often first developed atopic dermatitis (AD). Atopic Dermatitis is another of those auto-immune conditions and the sooner you stabilize such conditions the better the prognosis. Skin therapies from a company spun-off from Manchester University Histidine A while back on this blog I was looking at the various amino acids and came across the observation that histidine, a precursor of histamine, appears to be a mast cell stabilizer. Mast cells are the ones that release histamine and IL-6 into your blood. Histamine then does on the trigger yet more IL-6 to be produced. IL-6 is a particularly troublesome pro-inflammatory cytokine. At first sight giving a precursor of histamine to people who want less histamine seems a crazy thing to do, but ple...