So can you define really quickly and simply mast cell activation syndrome and then histamine intolerance and the connection and difference between the two?

It's tricky because a lot of symptoms overlap.

So a lot of people think, okay, I have MCAS or, you know, even if they're having histamine symptoms, sometimes you don't actually have MCAS, but you can feel like you do because a lot of the symptoms are the same.

So I'm going to kind of bucket them into kind of go through one and go through the other.

So we can kind of talk about the similarities and the differences.

So let's start with histamine intolerance.

So histamine is a biogenic means released from mast cells.

So how does that clinician start to go like, oh, is there other things beyond some of the more obvious patterns that I just described there that they should be paying attention to that would give them a clue to be thinking about this?

Can you share a little bit about what was happening in your health or your life that led you to discover this kind of deeper connection between thoughts, digestion, and hormones, maybe even beyond what you were originally trained in?

Yes, absolutely.

Well, I have a complete shift.

So it is that the story is the shift because I started out as a clinical pharmacist.

So I went through, got my doctorate, did a residency, was practicing as a clinical pharmacist.

And so I was in that world.

And at the same time, I was starting to have a lot of health issues myself.

it.

That's your thoughts creating, you know, a pathway in your mind.

mind.They may have been together another time and it was like, "Oh, we should do this," and it just came up and they didn't mean to not, you know, invite you, or there was a connection somewhere else, or y- there's always ...

We can't say why.

But, but I think it goes back to those core things where we're feeling like we're creating that negative story, and you need to cha- you need to change the story.

It could be the exact same thing.

You have a different story and you're like, "Oh, you know, everybody loves me, and it just didn't work out tonight," or something hap- you know, whatever.

It's no different.

Yeah.

So we want to start with what is neurodigestion? I've never heard that word before.

Yeah, so I coined that term myself.

That's probably why.

But it's, you know, because I've really, I found over years of working with women that We often are doing, so I have a virtual functional medicine practice where I see people from all over the world.

And I've worked with close to a thousand women.

And what I was seeing when I was doing the traditional functional medicine thing, so we're working on healing the gut and balancing the hormones and testing and supplements and all of the things.

And people were making progress.

I'd love that.