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physician who appreciates the situation should be sought. The hypertensive person should consider safer, more natural methods to lower hypertension. These can include breathing methods (such as long, slow exhalations), diet change (including to a low-sodium diet), yoga, the Rochlitz Heart Integration Exercises (see NEXUS vol. 18, no. 6) and supplementation with such nutrients as magnesium, potassium, CoQio and others. Here's the crucial problem for the El sufferer: having both MCD and porphyria causes one to need high- complex- carbohydrate foods, including wheat, potato, etc., but these exacerbate mast cell disease. Other carb foods, though, may exacerbate porphyria. ee ~~~ (see NEXUS vol. 18, no. 6) and supplementation with The Role of Specific Foods in Mast Cell Disease such nutrients as magnesium, potassium, CoQio and Recently, specific foods or food components have others. been proven to cause or exacerbate either MCD or Many physicians who routinely prescribe beta — specific allergic or inflammatory diseases. This is a blockers for the slightest alleged elevation of blood — burgeoning field of research, as it should be. pressure may be causing protracted anaphylaxis and The first food I note here is potato. Researchers incurable mast cell disease in more and more people. |__ found: "As potato lectin activates and degranulates hypothesise here, for the first time, that the lowering of | both mast cells and basophils by interacting with the the threshold for hypertension with concomitant — chitobiose core of IgE glycans, higher intake of potato widespread prescribing of beta blockers and the _ may increase the clinical symptoms as a result of non- increasing percentage of MCD in the population may be allergic food hypersensitivity in atopic [allergic] related phenomena. subjects." You may know that Beta-blocker drugs, which are potato is a nightshade and that widely used for hypertension, eee nightshades have long been are now also being used to Recently, specific foods or known to cause or exacerbate vee ghost raumatic stress food components have atte cuseases. ; Oo her isorder and panic or anxiety nightshades include tomato, attacks. Furthermore, very been proven to cause or eggplant, peppers and tobacco. recently they have begun to be exacerbate either MCD However as the above ar icle used in treating numerous ore P indicates, the larger class 0 kinds of cancer. There is even or specific allergic or foods that potato is a member talk of using them as a cancer inflammatory diseases. of may be implicated in MCD. Lectins as a whole may be It appears that beta blockers involved here. Foods high in may be desired in certain lectins include wheat, rye, quarters to be this century's equivalent of aspirin: they barley and oats, with lesser amounts in quinoa, rice, want "everyone" to be on these drugs! Those who are buckwheat, millet and corn. Beans contain lectins, with so freely, dangerously and widely prescribing these — soy and peanut containing the highest amounts. Dairy drugs either do not know, or do not care, that a products contain lectins, as do eggs. significant percentage of the population may acquire a The intestinal villi contain CYP450 enzymes. Now, severe chronic disorder from taking beta blockers. ectins are potent inducers of polyamine production in Instead, | call here for an immediate study to find out he gastro-intestinal tract. Lectins can damage e percentage of those with MCD who acquired this microvilli, cause inflammation and induce MCD. Some disorder after taking beta blockers. Please contact this ectins can cause growth of the liver, pancreas or author if this is in your history. spleen. Wheat germ can cause polyamine production Of course, most people with MCD do not know that and has been proven to cause changes in animals’ ey have it, and their physicians are not likely to know small intestines, resulting in stunted growth. enough to test them, so there is a great danger here for ightshade (especially tomato and potato) sensitivity e€ people. as also been known to exacerbate a common skin Ultimately, though, mast cell disease may also condition, rosacea. Vinegar and other fermented food partially explain the differences between people with — products are also known to aggravate it. MCD should e "accepted" porphyrias and those with (often be investigated for its possible role in rosacea. idden) porphyria and MCS/EMFS. The MCS sufferer Sialic acid is a complex sugar that is found on the may have porphyria plus mast cell disease. surface of cells and on secreted proteins. Recen Mast cell stabilisers—supplements (quercitin) or | research has found that sialic acid is involved in drugs (cromolyn sodium, ketotifen)—and diet change inflammatory disease and mast cell disease. Sialic acid (fewer lectins and less meat) may help those with chronic or is found in highest amounts in red meat and dairy environmental illnesses. I also hypothesise here that products. Lesser amounts are found in fish, with we may even have another case of a two-sided coin. An __ virtually none being found in poultry and produce. attack of either—porphyria or MCD—may sometimes It was discovered recently that humans can' also be an attack of the other. synthesise one form of sialic acid, Neu5Gc.” preventative! Recently, specific foods or food components have been proven to cause or exacerbate either MCD or specific allergic or inflammatory diseases. NEXUS ° 41 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com