By Angelica Clark, PA-C, IFMCP | Clark Wellness | Waco & Hamilton, Texas If you’ve made it this far, you’ve learned two important things. First, you’re not imagining your symptoms. Second, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) isn’t simply “too much histamine.” It’s an immune system that has become overly reactive—often because something deeper is keeping it on high alert. So now comes the question nearly every patient asks: “What can I do to start feeling better?” The answer isn’t one...

By Angelica Clark, PA-C, IFMCP | Clark Wellness | Waco & Hamilton, Texas In Part 1, we talked about Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)—why your body may suddenly begin reacting to foods, fragrances, medications, stress, or environmental exposures that never bothered you before. The question I hear next is almost always the same: “Why did this happen to me?” That’s exactly the question functional medicine asks. Because while antihistamines may help quiet the symptoms, they don’t explain why...

By Angelica Clark, PA-C, IFMCP | Clark Wellness | Waco & Hamilton, Texas “I feel like my world keeps getting smaller.” A patient said those words to me recently, and they have stayed with me ever since. She wasn’t talking about depression. She was talking about her life. Restaurants had become impossible. A friend’s perfume triggered an instant migraine. A glass of wine left her flushed with a racing heart. The supplements everyone else seemed to tolerate made her feel worse. Even healthy...