Robert Whitfield MD explains how overactive mast cells release granules that trigger rashes, hives, brain fog, palpitations, shortness of breath, nausea, and anxiety. High estrogen can signal mast cells, and the condition often goes undiagnosed because symptoms overlap with other illnesses like breast implant illness.
Your immune system's handling it for a while. Okay, I can handle this. Now I have this layer now. I can handle this. Okay, now I. And we get to a point where it's just like, enough, basically, like enough. I'm starting to be angry. I'm starting to react to everything. And so what, we start to have these overactive mast cells, and they start to release all of these granules. And then you start to get things like skin rashes, hives, itching. We can see headaches and migraines, fatigue, dizziness, heart palpitations. Then we have all the GI symptoms like the nausea, the bloating, the diarrhea. We can have weight changes, brain fog, cognitive problems, neuropathy, tingling, shortness of breath, allergy symptoms. We can see hormonal changes, actually, with mast cells. Estrogen actually also is another thing that signals mast cells to release. So there is actually receptor. So high levels of estrogen can be a problem. Then we, you know, can signal some of these things. Joint pains, anxiety, depression. So it's it of these symptoms where, you know, when you're looking at breast implant analysts, you're looking at a lot of the same symptoms. So it's. There's crossover. And so sometimes I think people will be having issues with their mast cells and not even realizing that this is what's going on, because a lot of their symptoms cross over with symptoms from other things, too, that maybe are being talked about a lot more.
