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My coworker is slacking today! 😉
09/29/2026

My coworker is slacking today! 😉

09/21/2026

🥬 You add kombucha, sauerkraut, yogurt, and spinach because the internet promised a happier gut.

🫠By dinner you are flushed, congested, itchy, headachy, and wide awake at 2:47 a.m.

That pattern deserves curiosity, especially when it repeats with:
➡︎wine
➡︎aged cheese
➡︎cured meats
➡︎fermented foods
➡︎leftovers

Histamine is a signaling molecule involved in immune responses, gastric acid secretion, wakefulness, and nervous system function. Diamine oxidase, or DAO, helps break down dietary histamine in the intestine. Symptoms may occur when the total histamine load exceeds an individual’s current ability to process it.

The challenge is specificity.

These symptoms overlap with true food allergy, migraine, medication effects, mast cell disorders, reflux, perimenopause, and other gastrointestinal conditions. Cycle timing may matter for some women, but the estrogen and histamine relationship is still an evolving area of research.

There is no single, widely accepted diagnostic test for histamine intolerance. I use a detailed history, rule out higher-risk conditions, review medications, and consider a brief structured dietary trial followed by reintroduction when appropriate.

“Healthy” food still has to be tolerable for the person eating it. A reaction also deserves more investigation than a permanent ban based on one rough week.

The Post-Meal Pain Location Map: What Your Digestive Symptoms Are Telling You Based on Where They Appear📍 If you can poi...
09/09/2026

The Post-Meal Pain Location Map: What Your Digestive Symptoms Are Telling You Based on Where They Appear

📍 If you can point to the exact spot where your stomach starts protesting after a meal, that detail matters.

❌In practice, I want to hear more than “my stomach hurts.”

✅I want to know whether the pressure:
➡︎ sits high under the breastbone
➡︎ pulls under the right ribs
➡︎ balloons around the belly button
➡︎ cramps low on the left

✅I also want the timing. Did it start:
➡︎ before the dishes were cleared
➡︎ 90 minutes later
➡︎ or the next morning?

📌Upper central pressure, burning, nausea, or uncomfortable fullness may involve the stomach or upper small intestine.

📌Pain under the right ribs after a richer meal raises different questions, including gallbladder and biliary concerns.

📌Bloating that builds around the belly button one to three hours after eating may lead us to consider fermentation, carbohydrate intolerance, or small-bowel motility.

📌Cramping lower in the abdomen that improves after a bowel movement often shifts the conversation toward the colon and the gut-brain interaction.

Location alone cannot diagnose the cause…but paired with timing, stool changes, medications, menstrual cycle patterns, and foods eaten, it gives us a much more useful starting point.

(NOTE: Please seek prompt medical care for severe or worsening pain, fever, repeated vomiting, black or bloody stool, fainting, chest pain, jaundice, or a rigid abdomen.)

👀 Your body is giving details and I want those details on the chart.

Happy National Dog Day to our Office Dog Olive! Pearl Chiropractic
08/26/2026

Happy National Dog Day to our Office Dog Olive! Pearl Chiropractic

08/14/2026

Stay tuned! Meggan Solfest ARNP

New flavors available at the office!
07/24/2026

New flavors available at the office!

Acute inflammation has a recognizable signature. Heat, redness, swelling, pain, and loss of function at a specific site....
07/20/2026

Acute inflammation has a recognizable signature. Heat, redness, swelling, pain, and loss of function at a specific site.

It is local, it is visible, and it resolves within days to weeks.

❌Chronic inflammation does not look like that.❌

And this is part of why it goes unrecognized and unaddressed for so long.

Here are the five signs it is chronic.

1️⃣It does not have a clear location.
Chronic inflammation is systemic and diffuse. The fatigue is body-wide, not muscular. The brain fog is global, not a headache. The achiness moves. The immune system is activated but not localized.

2️⃣It fluctuates with stress but does not resolve when stress resolves.
Acute inflammation resolves with the trigger. Chronic inflammation dampens with rest and worsens with stress, but it never fully clears even after a vacation or a low-stress month. The baseline is elevated.

3️⃣Food directly and reliably affects it.
Foods trigger fatigue, joint pain, brain fog, or skin changes that appear hours to a day after consumption. This is not allergy, it is immune activation at the gut level, producing systemic inflammatory mediators that cross the blood-brain barrier and reach every tissue.

4️⃣Sleep worsens rather than improves it in the short term.
Acutely inflamed tissue benefits from rest. Chronic systemic inflammation often produces worse symptoms in the morning — stiffness, fogginess, fatigue — because overnight the pro-inflammatory cytokine cycle peaks in the early morning hours, particularly IL-6 and TNF-alpha which follow a circadian rhythm with a nocturnal peak.

5️⃣It does not respond to a single intervention.
An acute ankle sprain responds to ice, elevation, and time. Chronic inflammation that responds to one intervention and then plateaus or rebounds is telling you that the total load driving it has multiple contributors.

If this is your picture, you are managing a threshold problem. And threshold problems require a different approach.

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