Hey everyone,

In my last post, I talked about how mast cell disorders can actually get better, and some of the ways in which this can happen.

In this post, I wanted to go more into detail on one of those ways– and that has to do with mast cells’ inflammatory activity.

In her interview with Yasmina, Dr. Castells explains how lifestyle changes, can help to reduce the inflammation present with mast cell disorders.

By doing things like eating healthy, including a wide range of nutrients in your diet, reducing stress, and exercising regularly, you can actually create a big change in how your mast cells behave.

There are countless ways in which this plays out, involving complex chemical reactions on a microsopic level (which is why I’m so excited that so much research is being done to further our knowledge!).

However, for the purposes of streamlining things for this post, I’m going to share with you what Dr. Castells told me, about how some of this happens.

Essentially, your mast cells react to anything they perceive as a “threat” to your body.

When your mast cells are in an oversensitized state, they may respond to any number of things that may not really be “dangerous,” but represent a change to your body.

For the sake of anyone reading this who may be neural retraining, I’m not going to go into too much detail on potential triggers here.

However, we know that when mast cells are oversensitive, they may perceive things such as a change in temperature or physical exertion as a “threat” because they notice that all of a sudden, your body is experiencing something different.

So, the more you can get your mast cells “used” to different things, the calmer they will be.

For example, if you are able to gradually increase your exercise in a safe and controlled way, your mast cells will begin to recognize that state of physical exertion as something familiar.

The same thing goes for increasing the range of healthy, nutrient-rich foods in your diet.

And, of course, the same thing goes for healing your brain, which also gives the mast cells the signal that everything’s okay (more on that in my next post).

Overall, the more you can raise the baseline of what your mast cells consider to be normal, daily life, the better things will be.

For me, DNRS was a big part of this, because your mast cells do take cues from your brain.

So, trying a new exercise or a new food in a moment where your brain feels “safe” actually can make it even more likely to be effective (so much more on this later).

However, either way, the more of these healthy, everyday lifestyle choices you are able to make, the happier your mast cells (and you!) will be.

For more info, check out my next post: How mast cell issues can get better, Part 3: Changing the brain.