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Alex Clark

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

The whole nervous system can't regulate.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

Parasympathetic and sympathetic.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

You're so sympathetic dominant and it just fluctuates so much that you're nervous.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

You literally can't function.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

one of the biggest root causes is whatever is producing that histamine issue in you.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

Could be.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

If you don't eat like fresh food as you store it, histamine increases.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

Right.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

But parasites increase histamine.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

I like that you brought that up because this now is similar to autoimmune where we have an immune system balance.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

So you have Th1 and Th2.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

Imagine that's a teeter-totter of your immune system.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

TH1 fights off viruses, bacteria, fungus, and little parasites.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

TH2 fights off parasites like worms and things like that.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

And it's that balance that helps balance out our microbiome.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

And so society lives mostly in a TH2 dominant state.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

What I mean by that is the imbalance like a teeter-totter shifts towards TH2, which is where mast cells live, which is what releases your histamine.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

So if we are in a TH2-dominant state, our mast cells are more sensitized to release histamine easier.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

Now you just got to figure out what are the triggers that are affecting you that's pushing that TH2.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
POTS, Histamine Issues, PANDAS & MCAS: Why Everyone Feels Sick Now | Dr. Charlie Fagenholz, DC

And the most common are parasites, mold, EMF, pesticides, mental stress, caffeine, and lack of sleep.