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Alex Clark

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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.

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

Those are the main ones.

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

There's maybe some other ones, but those are like the... I'm betting that it's going to be one or more of those, essentially.

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

I've seen both.

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

Depends on the person.

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

This goes back to like the biochemical individual thing because medicine treats a bell curve.

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

Frequency medicine really treats you as the individual you are.

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

And so someone might have a ton of emotional trauma, a ton of mold and Lyme throughout the system, whereas someone else might just have a really poor diet and then maybe like mold.

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

And it's a lot easier to change the diet

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

balance the adrenals with adaptogens and stuff like that and microcurrent and laser, whereas someone with a lot of emotional trauma, Lyme flooding their system is a much harder hill to climb to get them to remission and maybe not have POTS anymore.

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

So it's tough to say.

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

I love blood work.

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

But every time I've tried to really dive deep in blood work and like really understand like beyond just a CBC and a CMP, I always fall back on that's a snapshot.

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

I need to muscle test and find out what is the roadblocks because blood work will take 40% dysfunction and muscle testing will take 3% to 5% dysfunction.