Metabolic and Mental Health

Histamine: The Many Hats of a Paradoxical Biochemical for the Body and Mind

Explore this neurotransmitter’s versatile role in the brain, nervous, immune, and cardiovascular systems to balance it.

Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main)
EUPHORIA
Published in
9 min readFeb 7, 2023

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Paradoxically histamine is a tiny yet complex and potent molecule that amazes scientists and health practitioners because of its hormonal and neurotransmitter effects on the body and mind.

Histamine’s impact and implications on our physiology and psychology are phenomenal. However, the psychoactive properties of histamine are not yet well understood. Over a century, details of histamine research require a multi-volume book, with around 93,000 medical reports stored in PubMed.

Covering the details in an article is impossible and also unnecessary. Therefore, I only provide a high-level perspective with critical points for the awareness of this crucial molecule for our health and well-being.

To explore it further, you might check the links I provide from credible sources, covering its multiple aspects.

Histamine might be a new term in your vocabulary, but you may have heard about or used antihistamine medication for allergic conditions to relieve…

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Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main)
EUPHORIA

Scientist, Technologist, Inventor, focusing on HEALTH and JOY. Founder of ILLUMINATION, curating key messages for society. Connection: https://digitalmehmet.com