Jay,
"my symptoms" are not enough for us to really tell what the kale and spinach could be doing. Spinach is my arch enemy because it is high in histamine. Tomatoes, fermented, aged and cultured foods - all of them torture me. But like the symptoms of paradoxical folate deficiency, there are many different symptoms of histamine intolerance (and many of the two overlap). So, before I go on...
What of your symptoms get worse?
Hi Critterina,
My bad, just realized I wasn't very clear on the symptoms. It's actually kinda hard for me to pinpoint because I feel like every day the symptoms change slightly.
The one thing that's been pretty consistent for the past few months is a near-constant nausea. It goes in waves throughout the day where sometimes it will be really strong, and sometimes it's more a lingering nausea where I know it's there, but still tolerable.
Keep in mind this feeling is there from the second I wake up in the morning, before I even eat, so I don't think it is completely attributed to the food, maybe partly so but I'm not sure.
The other symptoms are occasional brain fog, and feeling spacey or just "out of it" in my head. Also anxiety comes and goes, but I've had anxiety for years.
I feel like when I eat my solid meals which are usually high protein/fat/complex carbs (eggs, coconut oil, grass-fed beef, ground chicken, turkey bacon, rice, potatoes, etc.) I usually feel decent while eating and for a little while after. Once the food digests, the symptoms (mainly nausea) start coming back.
However, I normally also do 2 green smoothies every day which is something like almond milk or coconut water, fruit (bananas, cherries, pineapple, or berries), greens (spinach or kale), and a grass-fed whey protein. It seems like the nausea hits harder after these and I also get a bloated feeling where I will feel super full for like 4 hours even though I know the food is definitely digested by then.
But it's not every single time with these either. Sometimes I can make a smoothie like the above and feel fine. I'd say more often than not though, the nausea and bloating is at it's worst after these.
This didn't always happen either, so I don't think I have an intolerance necessarily. I've been doing those smoothies for years and only recently started having issues after I began methylation.
I stopped the whey and greens a couple days ago and it seems to be not as bad, but I've also cranked up my folate/B12 which may be helping too.