Allergic to Life
How the Human Body Rejects the Modern World
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Frank Lichtenberger
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The Adjustment Mechanism of the Body: Mast Cell
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 Syn...
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House Dust Mites
For most of the History of Medicine (up until 1900 or so), it is important to keep in mind that many of the concepts of modern-day science, like the Immune System, where not yet discovered. Despite lack of sci...
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Introduction: Allergic to Life
I didn’t always want to be a Physician, in fact, for most of my childhood I wanted to be an astronaut. Like many other children I gravitated towards Science Fiction during playtime. I used to dream about explo...
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Mechanisms of Rejection
I became a Medical Intern (first year out of medical school)—at the tender young age of 30. I spent my first day, night, then half day as a licensed physician in a state of continuous work. It seemed highly un...
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The Human Ecosystem
When my grandparents were my current age, Mid 40s, it was sometime after World War 2 but before color TV. At that in U.S. History, there were some pretty substantial “growing pains” happening in the Public Sch...
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It’s About Time to Eat
There are many “states of being” for the human body, but to keep things simple we’ll just describe the main opposing states of autonomic function: “fight or flight to not become food,” and the opposite state of “...
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Human Social Interactions
A long time ago (1972), when humans experimented on mice to make correlations to human health, a horrific experiment was undertaken to determine the social impact on a family of mice give limited resources ove...
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The Human Brain/Body Input/Output
As my wife loves to remind me, “stress was invented by a MAN.” The famed Doctor Hans Selye is credited with being the first scientist to describe health changes to an organism from environmental demand. His ob...
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Desensitize from the World
Sure, why not? Seems like moving on from here is the next logical step for the human species, and I honestly can’t wait. For arguments sake, even if it were possible this generation to move to a different plan...
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A Strange New World, Same Old Humans: Allergic to Life
I remember learning about the discipline of Allergy/Immunology at the tender age of 6 years old. No, I wasn’t reading The New England Journal of Medicine, in fact I don’t think I was doing much reading at that...
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Humans Are What We Eat (Quantity vs Quality)
As early as the 1920s, scientists were working on infant formula made from soy. Even 100 years ago there were youngsters were dairy or milk allergic at that time. Human babies are entirely dependent on other h...
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Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality
Human Nature is an oxymoron, kind of like a “Jumbo Shrimp.” Because we can’t really determine exactly what is “naturally human,” and what has been constructed in the past 70 years. Is it truly in Human Nature ...
