A short YouTube transcript clip from Natalie Jill highlighting her experience with recurrent hives after a Bali trip and introducing a podcast episode with Dr. Tanya Dempsey about mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS). Dr. Dempsey explains that in MCAS mast cells are dysfunctional, leaking inflammatory chemicals at baseline, potentially causing local and systemic reactions, and suggests links between MCAS and conditions such as fibromyalgia.
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A few months ago I was talking about these hives I kept getting after my Bali trip. They were mind boggling, let me down. All types of research rabbit holes. And one of the things I uncovered was about mast cell activation syndrome. If your symptoms feel like unpredictable, random, almost impossible to diagnose, you might want to listen to this about mast cell activation syndrome. It's something I had never heard of until a few months back. Recently did a podcast episode with Dr. Tanya Dempsey. This is mind blowing. There's a little clip from the episode. You're gonna want to hear the whole episode.
They were charging me first a dollar a patient and then five dollar a patient. Taking it out of my salary. For patients who had cholesterol levels over 200, that's a real thing because they're in bed with insurance companies. Eventually in my own practice, I then figured out this condition known as mast cell activation syndrome. Get guess what fibromyalgia is. Mast cell activation syndrome. Patients who have nor we'll call them normal mast cells, mast cells that are functioning normally. Once the infection is gone, the mast cells actually reset and they just kind of hang out and wait for the next attack. In patients who have mast cell activation syndrome, those mast cells are dysfunctional. At baseline, they are leaking their chemicals. They cause first a local reaction when they explode or leak and then a systemic reaction and really, you know, what they're doing is causing inflammation.
