A short excerpt from a YouTube discussion (Feb 12, 2025) featuring Robert Whitfield MD describing how impaired detoxification—specifically low glutathione/antioxidant capacity—leads to accumulation of environmental chemicals and increased sensitivity, which he links to chronic inflammation and mast cell-related symptoms.
So if you can't detoxify, well, using the antioxidant glutathione, you're going to be very sensitive to chemicals, perfumes, environmental toxins in general, because they're going to accumulate and you can't cope with it. You're going to exceed capacity very, very quickly. And then you'll become what we see as someone who's got symptoms of chronic inflammation.
Right.
And that's. That's what we see.
So, as I mentioned, roughly 20%, 17 to 20% of the population has mast cell activation. And those studies in the genetics came out of Germany. And the thought is that I think it's really multifactorial. And what happens is that we have a predisposition. Like, I'm an allergic kid, my mom's an allergic person. She's got celiac disease.
