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Podcast: Late Night Health Radio
Episode: LNH wk 269 seg 1 Could You Be Allergic To Yourself?
Description: FORGET POLLEN - YOU COULD BE ALLERGIC TO YOURSELF!Mast cells are white blood cells that are part of the immune system and are designed to fight foreign substances. When these mast cells see something that is foreign and think it is dangerous, it will try to kill whatever the foreign object is. It does that by releasing chemicals it contains inside. Those chemicals are meant to try to kill the bad thing it is seeing- which could be a food, pollen or a virus, and in doing that and releasing the chemicals and killing the foreign object...