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Many doctors present mast cell activation syndrome as if it's a syndrome where someone mast cells are on high alert for noreason, or for an idiopathic and possibly genetic reason, and so they get triggered by totally harmless things and cause issues.
In my opinion. Nobody knows enough about mcas to tell anyone why their mast cells are reacting, and what they are reacting to. Not even the best doctors. While some "mast cell activation syndrome triggers" are harmless, some arent. And since we are exposed to thousands of harmful chemicals in this day and age our response should be to dig deeper and not assume that the mast cell activation is the main problem rather than a symptom of a deeper problem. Sure, your body reacts to some harmless stuff like pollen, but it's probably so inflamed and unregulated bc of something worse... and the pollen and relatively harmless foods are the collateral damage when its primed by something very nasty. So imo this requires a lot more study. One could also view mcas as one part of a broader innate immune system response to toxins when the adaptive immune system fails, possibly due to low immunoglobulins
In my opinion. Nobody knows enough about mcas to tell anyone why their mast cells are reacting, and what they are reacting to. Not even the best doctors. While some "mast cell activation syndrome triggers" are harmless, some arent. And since we are exposed to thousands of harmful chemicals in this day and age our response should be to dig deeper and not assume that the mast cell activation is the main problem rather than a symptom of a deeper problem. Sure, your body reacts to some harmless stuff like pollen, but it's probably so inflamed and unregulated bc of something worse... and the pollen and relatively harmless foods are the collateral damage when its primed by something very nasty. So imo this requires a lot more study. One could also view mcas as one part of a broader innate immune system response to toxins when the adaptive immune system fails, possibly due to low immunoglobulins