Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

CIRS Episode 2 | Overcoming Lifelong Conditions_ A Profound Recovery

31 Jul 2024 · 0 min

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This YouTube interview (CIRS Episode 2: Overcoming Lifelong Conditions: A Profound Recovery) features Aaron Hartman, MD and another speaker discussing mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) and patient recovery narratives. The speakers note that some patients long considered themselves permanently 'histaminergic' but report substantial improvement or resolution. Hartman emphasizes that mast cells function as an extension of the neuroimmune system and links mast cell behavior to stress, trauma, and systemic inflammatory responses (SIRS), with practical clinical examples like eczema flares.

And now all of a sudden, someone.
Who thought.
They were histaminergic their whole life, and that was just who I was. Hardwired. It's better or it's gone. That's pretty profound.
And one. One thing I would add in there, it's really been unique to see this, is that with the mast cell activation syndrome, to learn that your mast cells are in many ways an extension of your neuroimmune system. Yeah. And how that's related with stress and trauma. Yeah. And all of a sudden now when you get. And this goes back to the SIRS world where.
When does my eczema flare?
And when you're stressed. When you're stressed. Yes. Yes, it does come on. And all of a sudden now we've learned from actually the genomic testing, the GENIE testing through Heyman and Shoemaker that there's a there in this proliferative stuff you talked about. There's actually a gene expression for a post traumatic stress disorder, gene activation in your brain related to the mold. And all of a sudden, now we see how mast cell activation through its neuroimmune connection can now be a part of cers.