Explore the 2024-2025 research connecting fibromyalgia to mast cells, gut dysbiosis, mitochondria, and systemic nickel allergy (SNAS). Evidence-based deep dive with citations.
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If you have systemic nickel allergy syndrome (SNAS) and brain fog, you are not imagining it. There are real, documented biological mechanisms connecting the nickel you eat to the way your brain feels. Let's walk through what the research actually says — and what you can do about it.
Read MoreMy first interview about my cookbook on the low nickel diet with Shari from The Heavily Metalled Podcast! I talk about how I designed a strategic version of the low nickel diet, my story having dyshidrotic eczema and discovering my nickel allergy, the symptoms of nickel allergy, and gut health as well as my favorite health-promoting sweetener!
Read MoreI went beyond the current low nickel food lists that were filled with sugars, starches, and gut-harming grains to combine the low nickel diet with therapeutic diets: the low FODMAP diet, mediterranean diet, low carbohydrate diet, and the GAPS diet (a gut healing protocol). I did this to make it as gut-healing and health promoting as possible with the philosophy that healing the whole is a superior strategy to trying to address just the part, as we often do in medicine.
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