Today on the Root Cause Medicine podcast.

People with mass cell disorders, I mean, they can have a reaction to insect bites, of course,

like that hot and cold, stress, odors, specific foods, alcohol, exercise, medications.

It's just, and then it can affect all kinds of systems.

It's not just anxiety.

You know, you throw, your skeletal muscles, GI tract, the cardiovascular. It's just so

broad and it's a relatively new phenomenon. So it reminds me of what I used to say in my lectures

is, you know, your depression is not your grandmother's depression.

Because it used to be, all right, you added depression maybe because you lost a child,

childbirth, or maybe there was a war around and you had displacement or something like that.

Or maybe there was infection that was going around.

They had a chronic infection or something like that.

But now the causes are so varied,

and so depression is much more complex now.

And now it's like the man,

add the mass cell to the bucket.

It's really a new deal.

Hello, hello.

I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.

And today I talk with Dr. Robert Hadea, one of my favorite experts on the cutting edge of

psychiatry, brain health, brain inflammation, head trauma, and neurodegenerative conditions

which we discuss at length. He has some fascinating patient case examples that he presents,

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