When the doctors gave up, ChatGPT found a cure
A friend of mine has for some time been suffering from an escalating histamine intolerance that was actually becoming life-limiting. Histamines, for those who have never had to find out, are chemicals produced by our immune systems or by bacteria that can trigger inflammation and which are present in a dizzying array of food: aged or cured meat, tomatoes, strawberries, many kinds of fish, dairy, aubergine, red wine and so on. Histamine intolerance often involves severe hay fever too, thrown in just for fun.
For my friend, dietary changes and various doctors were failing to contain the problem. So, almost out of ideas, my friend's partner took to ChatGPT for troubleshooting. He put in the condition and the symptoms. And within a few minutes, he had some ideas to try: pea sprout powder and nettle tea. Better than nothing, which is what the official medical routes had to offer, and both are known to have anti-histamine properties.
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