Mast Cell Activation And It's Impact On Your Heart

20 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker explains that mast cell activation can influence the cardiovascular system, creating a crossover with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). This can lead to episodes of low blood pressure, tachycardia, and an exaggerated heart‑rate response when changing posture, where the heart rate spikes far more than normal while blood pressure may move in the opposite direction.

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Your heart and blood vessels, the cardiovascular system can be affected. You can have a crossover between mast cell activation and POTS. So you might have low blood pressure bouts. You may have other problems that go on such as tachycardia. So your body is supposed to adjust, for example, to positional changes. You may have an overexuberant heart rate response to positional change where your heart rate, instead of, you know, maybe bumping a little bit, will bump way up when you change position, your blood pressure can go the opposite direction.