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I have been burn by too many supplements. I am trying to first have a supportive diet. I agree with you on the riboflavin and sulfur deficiencies.Have you tried taking a high dose of the active form of B2? B2 is needed for MAO which will help histamine and other amines. It’s also extremely important for a lot of different enzymes and is needed to make the rest of the b vitamins work (b6,b12, folate etc), which can all contribute to improving histamine clearance and other food intolerances by helping the liver, gut, detoxification etc. I think a lot of people can be short on riboflavin because it’s conversion to the active form is hindered in hypothyroidism/adrenal insufficiency, so eating all the liver and milk will not help. There’s a huge thread on the Phoenix rising forum ‘b2 I love you’ which is super interesting.
also, problems with salicylates/phenols/oxalates indicate sulfur problems, possibly a lack of bio available sulfur, which molybdenum could help. Molybdenum is needed for making sulfur out of cysteine/methionine otherwise it will get fermented (which will produce ammonia), and that’s possibly why you do not do well with too much meat?
I too have been in the same boat as you and both b2 and molybdenum have been extremely helpful for me.
I'm reducing meat proteins to give a break on my system and dairy will provide much needed riboflavin. Meat is also high in phosphorus and low in calcium and low calcium promotes histamine according to the article above. Replacing meat with dairy has many advantages to my case.
The last thing dairy helps with is oxalates. The calcium in it binds to oxalates making them non absorbable. Oxalates can bind to the same receptors as sulfur and so a deficiency of sulfur can be caused by oxalates.