12 articles
- Frameworks· July 30, 2026· 11 min· HCM interpretation
SIBO, MCAS, POTS and Food Intolerance May Be One Self-Sustaining System
For years, SIBO, MCAS, POTS, dysautonomia, food intolerance, chronic fatigue, neurological symptoms, and mitochondrial dysfunction have been treated as separate diagnoses.
#sibo#mcas#pots - MCAS & Mast Cells· June 9, 2026· 13 min· Mechanistic inference
Why Mast Cell Activation May Be the Last Domino, Not the First — A Systems-Biology Reframe of MCAS
For decades, the mast cell has carried a reputation it may not fully deserve. We learned it as the cell of allergy: the histamine grenade, the hive, the wheeze, the anaphylactic emergency. In that framing, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) becomes a straightforward story —…
#mcas#mast-cells#systems-biology - MCAS & Mast Cells· May 22, 2026· 3 min· Mechanistic inference
Estrogen, Mast Cells, and Why Your Gut Symptoms Change Across Your Cycle
If you have a chronic gut condition — IBD, IBS, SIBO, MCAS, histamine intolerance, or some overlap of them — you have probably noticed something important: your symptoms are often not random.
#estrogen#mast-cells#histamine - Host Capacity Model· May 21, 2026· 23 min· Mechanistic inference
Why Probiotics Make You Sicker, Not Better: The Six Mechanisms Driving Probiotic Failure in MCAS, SIBO, Histamine Intolerance, and Long COVID, and Why The Field Has Been Asking The Wrong Question
What the research actually shows about why patients with chronic gut dysfunction react badly to the most widely recommended supplement in functional medicine, and where the actual lesion lives.
#probiotics#histamine#d-lactate - Host Capacity Model· May 14, 2026· 32 min· Mechanistic inference
Why Your Chronic Illness Got Dramatically Worse in Perimenopause: The Hormonal Cascade Driving Gut, Mast Cell, Brain Fog, and Fatigue Symptoms in Your 40s
What the research now shows about why women in their 40s experience the emergence or sudden worsening of MCAS, histamine intolerance, SIBO, autoimmune flares, and post viral illness, and where the actual upstream lesion lives.
#perimenopause#mcas#histamine - MCAS & Mast Cells· May 14, 2026· 26 min· Mechanistic inference
Histamine Intolerance: Why the DAO Enzyme Story Is Incomplete, and the Real Reason Your Low Histamine Diet Stopped Working
What standard explanations miss about bacterial histamine, the second breakdown enzyme almost nobody discusses, and why mast cell driven reactivity sits on a layer none of these interventions reach.
#histamine#mcas#dao - MCAS & Mast Cells· April 22, 2026· 10 min· Mechanistic inference
10 CRITICAL POINTS ABOUT MATERNAL MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION AND YOUR MCAS
What I've Been Exploring And What You Need to Know
#mcas#mitochondri#histamine - Mitochondria· April 20, 2026· 10 min· HCM interpretation
Why Butyrate Supplementation Makes Chronic Gut Dysfunction Worse: The Data They Don't Show You
ou ve probably heard it.
#mitochondri#butyrate#colonocyte - MCAS & Mast Cells· April 17, 2026· 3 min· Exploratory
Why Are People With Mast Cell Activation Feeling Better on Nicotine Patches?
I ve been getting flooded with messages about this.
#mcas#histamine - MCAS & Mast Cells· April 16, 2026· 18 min· Mechanistic inference
The Hidden Cost of Antihistamines: How Blocking Histamine Silences Your Most Important Neural Network
ou re not just blocking an allergy response.
#mitochondri#histamine - MCAS & Mast Cells· April 15, 2026· 15 min· Mechanistic inference
The Epigenetic Truth About Why Your Mast Cells Won’t Calm Down (And How to Actually Fix It)
I ve spent months buried in research that keeps pointing to the same uncomfortable conclusion: we ve been treating mast cell activation syndrome at the wrong level.
#mcas#mitochondri#lps - MCAS & Mast Cells· April 11, 2026· 19 min· Mechanistic inference
The COVID – Mast Cell Activation Connection: Why Some People Never Fully Recover
The genetics, the epigenetics, and the mechanism nobody has fully explained until now If you got COVID and never fully recovered – if you’re now reacting to foods you used to eat without problems, flushing for no reason, heart racing unpredictably, exhausted in ways that don’t re
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