Renee Simpson Naturopath

Did you know that as women, we're at a higher risk of developing allergies, sensitivities and intolerances, and to experience more intense symptoms? This is due to the tumultuous relationship between estrogen and histamine.

If estrogen is high it drives up histamine and if histamine is high it drives up estrogen.

During perimenopause women will often have what are called anovulatory cycles, there can be menstrual bleeding without ovulation. The only way the body produces progesterone is by ovulating. Healthy levels of progesterone keep estrogen in balance. Without ovulating there is an imbalance and this drives up estrogen levels and with that histamine.

Stress also robs the body of the building block to make progesterone. From my experience women in their 40's can be under a lot of stress due to work and family demands further adding to an imbalance of estrogen and progesterone.

Both of these factors are underlying causes as to why allergies can be exacerbated during perimenopause.

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