Dr. Todd LePine
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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It's sort of a buzz, you know, diagnosis now, but it's a very real phenomenon. And And that is related to the mast cells, which are the types of immune cells in the body and the interstitial, the sort of the spaces between the cells where they reside. And they release lots of histamine. And if anybody has ever had hay fever, you see that typical picture of hay fever.
You're like this, like half asleep and like they're walking through a fog. Hay fever is an example of that. brain fog. And antihistamines can actually have a benefit with that. Naturally, things like quercetin and nettles can also be very helpful. And you probably have used it. This is something that I use.
I've been using more is the drug chromolin sodium, which is I've had some amazing success with that in more difficult cases. I wouldn't necessarily go to that for my first choice.
What did you find? Well, he actually came into me and he had already seen a variety of different doctors. And the background is that the gentleman as a child had lots of allergies and asthma. So he had ear infections, bronchitis, also developed some sinusitis type symptoms. So he had multiple rounds of antibiotics and
I always emphasize to patients that when you have an immune dysfunction, look for the gut because 60 to 70% of your immune system is in the gut. And just like with what's going on with the COVID virus or the COVID-19 syndrome that we're seeing by coronavirus. is it's not the virus or the bacteria itself that causes the problem. It's our immune system's response to it.
And in general, we want to have a, I call it a balanced immune system. So we want our immune system to be idling. So basically just sort of sitting there and I'll say, we're enjoying planet earth. We're going out for a walk. We're not reacting to the- Not underreacting or overreacting. Exactly. Underreacting or overreacting. And when you overreact, we call that an autoimmune disease.
When you underreact, we call that AIDS. Yeah.
So AIDS or cancer. AIDS or cancer.
Right. And I think, you know, we talk about like, you know, a weak immune system or a strong immune system. It's really, I think, an intelligent and a balanced immune system. That's how I like to think about it. And that's, you know, related to immunotolerance, which is what the gut does. So when we have a healthy gut, we have an immune system that is tolerant to lots of things.
And you can eat certain things. You can go out in the environment. You're not going to react to dog dander and all these other things. There are some genetic... Some people have genetic predispositions towards being more atopic or allergic. But having a healthy gut, especially early on, the priming of the gut is so critical. You know, having a vaginal birth, being...
uh, breastfed, uh, not introducing, uh, certain foods like gluten early on in, in, in living on a farm, living on a farm, exactly. Being exposed, exposed a lot of, and, and crawling around in the dirt and literally putting dirt in, you know, I would call it, you know, your, your body's immune system samples planet earth. Planet earth is a very dirty place.
There's lots of bugs and all kinds of things in your body learns to be immunotolerant. And one of the things that is really, I also focus on is part of the immune system is called the Treg cells. The Treg cells are like the conductor in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. So you've got, you know, the wind section over here and the horns over here and they keep everything in balance.
And the Tregs are really, really critical. And what we're finding- Regulatory cells. They regulate. They regulate the whole, you know, the whole balance of the immune system. And the Tregs that we find out, the Tregs, Two things that are really simple that people can use to upregulate your Tregs to keep things in balance are fibers, fibers in the diet.
Fibers are the key things that help with regulation of that. And then also, which I use quite a bit in the patients that I see is vitamin A. Vitamin A helps to downregulate the immune system and helps to keep the Treg cells in place.
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