What is the relationship between the microbiome and histamine?

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Some gut bacteria have the genes needed to produce histamine from the amino acid histidine. So-called histamine intolerance is often associated with reduced activity of DAO, the enzyme that breaks histamine down, and its diagnosis is clinical.

The histamine report in the Advanced test shows your microbiome's potential to produce histamine. It does not measure histamine or DAO and does not diagnose an intolerance.