My experience and thoughts
These are just my thought's I have been pretty much hive free for over 2 years. I have figured out that a strict low histamine diet and a basic carnivore diet, with some exceptions, allows me to keep my hives dormant.
I lived off of fast food and ultra processed food for 20 years.
I have seen first hand over 2 years that even the slightest misstep in my strict low histamine diet causes an increase in hives.
For example if I don't eat the chicken I made right away and it sits for 5 or 10 minutes that makes a difference.
And after learning a lot about this my view is this:
Gut destruction: Ultra-processed foods are designed to be shelf stable, which means they are dead. They lack the fiber and enzymes your gut needs to thrive. Over time, this starves your "good" bacteria and leads to things like Leaky Gut and SIBO.
The histamine connection: Once your gut lining is damaged by years of those additives and inflammatory oils, your body loses its ability to produce the DAO enzyme needed to break down histamines.
That's why I'm stuck with this intolerance now, the "food" literally broke my defense system.
Engineered addiction: These companies use "bliss point" chemistry to make you crave things that are biologically incompatible with your health.
I'm not trying to hurt anyone's feelings and obviously this is only relevant if your hives are a digestion/autoimmune issue.
Finally its becoming mainstream that ultra processed food is bad for you and its not really food its technology that your body can technically digest but its not the food humans and animals ate for 100,000's of years.
The Harvard Law article below is about a new legal attack (by our Government) on ultra processed food, comparing “Big Food” to the tobacco industry.
https://hls.harvard.edu/today/the-new-case-against-ultraprocessed-food/