{"id":9954,"date":"2016-09-26T19:18:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/?p=9954"},"modified":"2020-02-26T17:18:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:18:21","slug":"menstrual-period-and-diamine-oxidase-dao-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/menstrual-period-and-diamine-oxidase-dao-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Menstrual period and Diamine Oxidase (DAO) levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Women, as we all know, have to live once a month with the feared\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>menstruation\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>for about five days. Most describe those days as painful, gray, sensitive (as you get angry or cry at any time), and they feel tired because they can&#8217;t sleep&#8230; Sometimes the pain becomes so unbearable that only a drug can relieve it. Can you imagine having to take\u00a0painkillers every month? Yes, my friends, taking medication monthly for over 40 years!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">During the menstrual period the Diamine Oxidase (DAO) activity, that intestinal enzyme which we talk so much about, decreases. <\/span><\/strong>A group of researchers from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Kobe (Japan) reports\u00a0it (1). However, the opposite occurs during during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/pregnancy-migraine-and-dao-enzyme\/\" target=\"_blank\">pregnancy<\/a>, where DAO activity increases exponentially. This is the female body, in constant changing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You are probably wondering if the drop in\u00a0enzyme activity during the period is responsible for menstrual cramps. We can not secure it\u00a0at 100%, but for years we have seen improvement in most women after starting the nutritional treatment for DAO deficiency disorder (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/low-histamine-diet\/\" target=\"_blank\">low histamine diet<\/a> + DAO enzyme supplement), including the period days. The first thing they tell\u00a0us is that they <strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">do not need medication<\/span><\/strong> to relieve pain, as this is bearable. The next step many describe is the complete disappearance of pain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Are we in front of\u00a0a new <strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">treatment<\/span><\/strong> for menstrual pain? Or maybe only women who always have\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">DAO deficiency <\/span><\/strong>improve, and not those who just have it during the period days? The specific low DAO activity during the menstrual days also explains\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/migrana-y-dieta-una-estrecha-relacion\/\" target=\"_blank\">migraine<\/a> attacks suffered by many women once a month. These crisis\u00a0are popularly known as &#8220;hormonal migraine attacks&#8221;. Let us remember\u00a0that whenever there is a DAO deficiency, histamine from diet accumulates in the body due to the inability to expel it and can cause a range of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/deficit-dao\/#sintomas\" target=\"_blank\">symptoms<\/a>. Proving that relationship would mean that following a low histamine diet, especially during the period, could reduce or even eliminate <strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">menstrual cramps<\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">migraine<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0in most women!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bibliography<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(1) HAMADA Y, SHINOHARA Y, YANO M, YAMAMOTO M, YOSHIO M, SATAKE K, TODA A, HIRAI M, USAMI M. Effect of the menstrual cycle on serum diamine oxidase levels in healthy women. Clinical Biochemistry, 2013, Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women, as we all know, have to live once a month with the feared\u00a0menstruation\u00a0for about five days. Most describe those days as painful, gray, sensitive (as you get angry or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9966,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions\/9966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianaduelo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}