Mast cells are immune sentries that normally protect you, but in mast cell activation syndrome they're stuck in overdrive, constantly releasing inflammatory chemicals. This low-grade inflammation can affect your whole body and cause unexplained symptoms across multiple systems.
What is mast cell syndrome? It's underlying so many of these other conditions that people are suffering from but just can't put a finger on.
Everyone has mast cells. Mast cells are your frontline of your immune system. There's the good side of the mast cell and then the bad side of the mast cell. So they're helping us, but they can also damage us. So in mast cell activation syndrome, what happens is they're actually constantly sensing that something's wrong. So at baseline, they're leaking these these chemicals out, causing a baseline of inflammation. And that inflammation could be anywhere in the body, in multiple places in the body, but sometimes it's very subtle. They not only affect what they're trying to kill, but they actually affect the tissues that they're releasing these chemicals in, in attempt to fight what they see as foreign, as bad.
You know, as a single source, healthy immune system is really our best defense against all cause. When it gets run down or disabled, it not only can't protect us, it can't police us.
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