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nocoincidences

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4. My PhD program
Mon Jul 15, 2019, 09:58 PM
Jul 2019

was focused on Behavioral Medicine and several courses were devoted to the connection between allergies and behavior, especially food allergies.

There is a lot of literature in journals about this.

Did your symptoms abate, or are they still bothering you?

Sometimes an allergen elicits an extraordinary response from the immune system that makes you susceptible to other triggers.

Unfortunately this is an area that there are few experts in, but holistically oriented physicians are more likely to understand the connections.

Mast cell disorders sometimes underlie generalized allergic responses, if you are having those.

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