The Adjustment Mechanism of the Body: Mast Cell

Abstract

When choosing the title of this book, “Allergic to Life” had a much snappier sound than “Human Mast Cells are rejecting the Modern Human Environment.” The name comes from my patients with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, as it seemed to be the symptoms that they were dealing with. While I have mentioned Mast Cells hundreds of times by this point, the descriptions have been about the environment and the human body. Humans have not evolved in any substantial genetic or physiologic way to adapt to these changes. Now, to formally introduce the part of the human body that is responsible for the way people feel because of all of those maladaptive environmental stressors.