Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
Symptoms, Causes, and Homeopathy
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Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) is a complex health issue that involves a number of different systems in your body leading to an array of symptoms. MCAS may develop due to a variety of triggers, including mould, chemicals, toxins, heavy metals, allergens, medications, infections, viruses, food, and alcohol. If you have MCAS, some or all of these triggers can cause your mast cells to release inflammatory mediators, including histamine resulting in unwanted symptoms
Do you suffer from the below symptoms?
Top 10 Common MCAS symptoms ​​
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MCAS symptoms affect every part of your day, they can be both debilitating and wide-ranging - affecting various parts of the body at the same time. MCAS symptoms often come and go and their severity can fluctuate over time. In some cases individuals may experience mild symptoms for a long time before seeing a sudden increase in the frequency or severity of your symptoms. This can be a build up which is triggered by many factors such as emotional stress or mould. ​
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Headaches // Nasal congestion
Shortness of breathe // Chest pains
Heart Palpations // Low Blood Pressure
Joint inflammation
Anxiety
Fatigue // Brain Fog
Dizzy // Lightheaded
Skin // Hives // Eczema
Stomach issues // Food sensitivities
Bloating // Reflux
Common Early onset Signs of Autoimmune conditions -
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Fatigue
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Joint pain and swelling
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Skin problems
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Abdominal pain or digestive issues
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Recurring fever
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Numbness in the hands and feet
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Hair loss
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Swollen glands and immune depletion
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Much more - Can be signs of early development
What is a Mast Cell?
Mast cells are a part of your immune system, they are white blood cells found throughout the bodies tissue and blood. 'The body’s alarm system', They look out for harmful invaders; once found they send out signals to open your blood vessels, fill your tissues with fluid. They are located everywhere in the body, especially in connective tissues, the GI tract, skin, and lungs.
Your mast cells store inflammatory mediators, including histamine inside granules. When you have an allergic reaction, it will activate your mast cells triggering an allergic response that will lead to the release of histamine and other chemicals. They’re made in your bone marrow, then move through your bloodstream into your tissues. The mature mast cells live in tissues throughout your body to help protect us. They can help fight infections and regulate your organs. One of there common known uses is in seasonal allergies or allergic asthma. Mast cell activation can sometimes cause anaphylaxis, a serious allergic reaction.
When your mast cells are 'over'active or 'over' stimulated, we start to react to harmless things in your environment; foods, chemicals, perfume's, EMF and much more.
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7 Common TRIGGERS + ROOT Causes in
Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
•• Food Triggers (beyond histamine)
•• Infections // Toxicity // mould
•• Genetic Factors (liver detoxification and inflammation issues)
•• Nutritional Deficiencies (Vitamin B6)
•• Gut imbalances // SIBO
•• Hypoxia (low oxygen)
•• Hormone Imbalances
•• Stress and/or Early Trauma
Natural Tips for MCAS + Histamine
Feeling 'healthy' is not solely the absence of ill health or disease - it is being able to adapt to our surroundings in state of homeostasis with MCAS this can be difficult here are a Few tips ...
🌿 Seeing a Homeopath // Support from Functional practitioners or nutritional therapies
🌿 Low Histamine Diet
🌿 DAO supplements (Diamine Oxidase)
🌿 Vitamin D (sunshine)
🌿 Omega-3 fatty acids + herbs (see list)
🌿 Hydrated - Drink Water
🌿 Infrared saunas
🌿 Reduce stress with walks, massage, YOUR JOY!
Supportive Herbs
🌿 Nettle leaf
🌿 Turmeric // Ginger
🌿 Elderflower
🌿Quercetin - found in capers, onions
🌿 Tulsi - Holy Basil
🌿 Lemon balm // Lemon verbena //Skullcap
AND MANY MORE ...
Additional supplements such as herbal - Homeobotanical tinctures are a great support to our bodies system.
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Homeopathy's approach to supporting YOU and MCAS
Can you heal from MCAS? Yes, you can heal from mast cell activation, just alike to any other complex chronic disease or AI.
Are you affected by MCAS or Autoimmune conditions both emotionally and physically? How does this affected on a daily basis? What supports your healing journey? Homeopathy support the whole person - Homeopathic consultations give you the space to truly feel heard and been seen.
MCAS & Hormonal Health
Is Estrogen Dominance fuelling the fire??
Excess estrogen (or estogen dominace) may not only be your ovaries producing too much, but it is likely to be our body is not be efficiently breaking down and excreting our excess estrogen, which in turn causes it to build up in our system... But how does this affect my MAST Cells?
Lets explain a little more detail... All cells have many different types of receptors that the chemical messengers, and hormones, like estrogen, will recognise and attach to. Histamine and estrogen attach to the same receptors (H1). Because of this, estrogen will cause a release of histamine from our mast cells present . The more estrogen you have, the more histamine that will be released into the bloodstream. More histamine results in more estrogen, which is where people will get stuck in a vicious cycle; one problem is feeding into the other.​
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Estrogen stimulates mast cells to release histamine and downregulates the DAO enzyme that clears histamine. At the same time, histamine stimulates the ovaries to make more estrogen. The net result can be a vicious cycle of estrogen → histamine → estrogen → histamine.
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Progesterone stabilizes mast cells, upregulates DAO, and can therefore reduce histamine.
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MCAS RESOURCES
Gabor Mate
The Myth of Normal
Mast Cell 360
Beth O'Hara
Histamine Rest Plan
Dr Becky Campbell
The Autoimmune Cure
Sara Gottfried, M.D.
Theresa MacPhail
Allergic: Our Immune System
Where to start? Here are a couple of Book + website reference suggestions
Journey to Better Health
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