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Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill: Fat Loss, Hormones & Health for Women Over 40

498: The Hidden Connection Between Long COVID, Mold, and Mast Cell Activation with Dr. Tania Dempsey

Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill: Fat Loss, Hormones & Health for Women Over 40

Natalie Jill

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8635 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

What if the random symptoms you've been told are "all separate" – the hives, exhaustion, brain fog, and digestive chaos – are actually ALL connected through one dysfunctional system in your body that affects 1 in 5 people?

When Dr. Tania Dempsey left traditional medicine after being told she wouldn't get bonuses for patients with cholesterol over 200, she discovered something revolutionary: conditions like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, long COVID, and mysterious autoimmune markers might all trace back to the same source: dysfunctional mast cells.

In this conversation, Dr. Dempsey reveals why your mast cells (your body's security guards) might be stuck in overdrive, leaking over 1,200 different inflammatory chemicals throughout your body. She explains why perimenopausal women and adolescents are hit hardest, how hormones trigger these cellular explosions, and why that positive thyroid antibody test might not mean what you think.

Most shocking? The conventional medical system's approach of treating symptoms separately might be exactly what's keeping you sick. Dr. Dempsey shares her personalized protocol that's helping patients reclaim their lives, but warns that you can't supplement your way out of this without addressing one crucial system everyone overlooks.

If you've been gaslit by doctors, told your labs are "normal" despite feeling terrible, or you're navigating mysterious symptoms that worsen with hormonal changes, this conversation will help everything make sense.

 

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0:00.0

What the heck is MCAS and mass cells?

0:03.3

And why do we seem to be hearing more and more about this?

0:07.3

And what does this have to do with long COVID or even autoimmune or mold or just random

0:13.6

infections and things that we haven't been able to figure out?

0:17.4

Welcome to Midlife Conversations.

0:19.4

I'm your host, Natalie Gill, and I'm passionate about having

0:22.2

amazing conversations that matter to us midlife women. On this podcast, I do what I do best,

0:28.0

taking complicated health topics and breaking them down simply so that we can optimize aging

0:33.1

together. I share actionable steps to help you thrive in what I believe are our best years to come.

0:39.3

Join me as I interview the most inspiring people living their best midlife years and dive

0:44.0

into essential topics like hormone changes, health optimization, weight management, blood sugar,

0:49.1

emotional well-being, relationships, beauty, and so much more. What the heck is MCAS and mass cells? And why do we

0:58.6

seem to be hearing more and more about this? And what does this have to do with long COVID,

1:03.8

or even autoimmune, or mold, or just random infections and things that we haven't been able

1:10.0

to figure out? Is this like the new fibromyalgia, like the bucket that we haven't been able to figure out.

1:14.7

Is this like the new fibromyalgia, like the bucket that we dump everything into? Or is this really an epidemic that we need to be understanding?

1:18.7

Today, I'm really excited to go deep with Dr. Tanya Dempsey.

1:23.0

Now, I found her on my own when I was navigating my hive situation. And if you follow me on social media,

1:29.7

you heard all about the hives that I was dealing with. And I was on this mission to figure out

1:34.1

what the heck is triggering on, where are they coming from? And I kept coming across MCAS.

1:38.6

We're going to talk a little bit about that. And I found Dr. Tanya Dempsey's work in many places, but I had listened to

1:46.1

her on Dave Asprey's podcast. I loved the information. I listened to it like three times. And then I

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