Peter Attia· MD
so once that receptor gets docked into by the IG the cells that have that specific receptor on them are called mass cells they're also called eosinophils and for those of you sort of listening there's another type of disorder called eosinophilic disorders which you know that's a different type of food allergy but also related and then those mass cells exist in tissues but they're not in the blood eosinophils are in the blood the other third type of cell is called the basophil that's in the blood so this is such a potent system because it's got these cells ready to go in the tissues the mass cells mass cells are in the skin they're in the gut they're in the lung in the eyes in the nose and then you also have these other cells floating around the blood that are also secreting histamine and braine and they're like The Messengers across the whole system and then you have the mass cells embedded and the mass cells can live a very long sign time in tissues