Dietary Triggers

Eliminating cheese alone often completely resolves chronic sinus congestion. Addressing dietary triggers is contrasted with repeated antibiotic prescribing. Trigger effects are difficult to study scientifically because they are highly individualized. A proposed research method would cluster people by trigger category to reveal predictive patterns, such as high-histamine foods predicting fasting difficulty in histamine-sensitive people. The Bulletproof diet framework was applied with large numbers of people over about 10 years to identify food trigger patterns, though formal studies have not necessarily been published by the person describing it. Food-triggered cravings vary widely between individuals; a food that causes fasting difficulty for one person may be harmless for another. Sugar feeds unfriendly fungus and yeast that colonize the sinuses. Genetics, inflammation, intolerance, allergies, and metabolic responses all influence whether a food becomes a craving trigger for a specific person. Removing sugar from the diet starves the microbial populations that thrive in the sinuses. Cheese (dairy) is identified as the single biggest dietary trigger for sinus congestion. Gluten is…