Genny Masterman

Genny Masterman is the founder of the Histamine Intolerance Awareness Campaign. She is an Associate Producer, Researcher and Journalist in the UK with a strong connection to the German language area. She has worked on over a hundred television documentaries for clients such as the BBC, CBS, ITV, Channel 5, the Travel Channel, the Austrian media and many independent production companies in the UK, US, and Canada. These include work as a Fixer on programs such as A League of Their Own - A European Roadtrip with James Corden, Andrew Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp, Top Gear, Who Do You Think You Are? with Marianne Faithful, Extreme Railway Journeys with Chris Tarrant, Richard Ayoade’s Travel Man - 48 hours in Vienna with Chris O’Dowd, George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces, Paul Merton in Europe, Al Murray’s Why Does Everyone Hate The English? with Henning Wehn and many more. In 2007, after suffering for several years, she was diagnosed with histamine intolerance (HIT) and fructose malabsorption while in Austria during the production of a BBC documentary. Soon after her return to the UK she became aware that HIT is very low on the public radar in the UK in comparison to some countries in mainland Europe. She decided to change this. She gathered information, including the food lists, cooperated with experts and medical specialists in HIT from the German language area, and wrote a book documenting her story. Genny’s book “What HIT me? Living with Histamine Intolerance” was first published in January 2011. It has been regularly updated and is now in its 3rd edition. It is available on Amazon in English, German and Spanish. Up to now it has sold over 11.000 copies world-wide. It was the first comprehensive guide on the subject in the English language area. She continues to work in her spare time on raising awareness. She has made a full recovery from HIT.