Posted by Tooooja on July 11, 2004, at 5:37:44
In reply to Re: Whey Protein Treating Depression » Tooooja, posted by Larry Hoover on July 10, 2004, at 8:10:36
Hi, thanks for your reply Larry.
With regards to the Whey protein I've been taking; I started off on a brand produced by a bodybuilding company, and it was a mixed whey with some hydrolised and some ion exchanged, they touted it as denatured and high Biological Value. This is what I was using when I first began with the cold symptoms, it also contained some malto dextrose and other ingredients to increase it's anabolic potential. With all the other ingredients in the supplement I suspected that it may be one of these that I was having an adverse reaction to. So I changed brand and bought a pure whey protein with no other ingredients, no flavouring, nothing. It is a cross and ultra filtered whey and supposedly the purest available. Alas with this I also had the same result; sore throat and sneezing. I don't think that I have an allergy to dairy though, when I was a kid growing up, I used to drink milk by the bucketload, I'd sometimes drink two pints or more in a day, and I never had an allergic reaction. I think you may be right about the histamine levels, I've just read that whey protein contains histadine, and this is used to make histamine in the body. My main symptom is sneezing, with the sore throat, and when I persisted with the whey despite the sneezing I also started to get red-ish patches appearing on my cheeks. What do you think's the best thing to do next?? I'm not going to take the whey when it's making me sneeze all the time. I've ordered some l-tryptophan, which I plan to try and hope that it works like the whey and will avoid the histamine problem. If my histamine levels are elevated, will they naturally return to normal levels if I avoid the histadine containing foods that caused them to rise??
Thanks again for your input, really appreciate it :)
Toooja.....
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