Quercetin is an excellent mast cell stabilizer.

There are so many things that can tip the balance in this system….

What if your mast cells are more reactive or sensitive than normal?

What if your body has a poorly-metered reaction to something, meaning you dump MORE histamine than you should?

What if you’re on the low end of producing glutathione? We test for low thyroid and low insulin. But glutathione isn’t tested.

The other way histamine is cleared from your body is by a compound called diamine oxidase. What if your DAO levels are low? There’s no test for DAO.

What if you have low magnesium and vitamin D levels?? Both those cause a huge host of symptoms, all related to mast cells.

Mast cells are specialized white blood cells. What if your white blood cell count is slightly elevated all the time but still within the range of “normal”?

There are SO MANY things that could cause all this and fly under the radar.

Dr Theoharides again has produced repeatable research showing that Quercetin (derived from apple skins) does a great job of stabilizing mast cells. That’s been duplicated again and again.

There are also OTC drugs available that are mast cell stabilizers. Naso Crom is a chromolyn nasal spray. It stops mast cells from popping off instead of treating the histamine response after it’s released. A lot of chronic migraine sufferers get relief from this nasal spray because of histamines connection to migraines and light sensitivity.

Anyway.

RDMercer