Why does the body go into anaphylactic shock if it’s potentially life threatening?

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Why does the body go into anaphylactic shock if it’s potentially life threatening?

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The context we evolved in can be helpful to consider as well. Our relatively very healthy (compared to living as primitive humans) lifestyles, free of many parasites and infectious diseases, isn’t the kind of setting our immune system evolved in. Some of the issues we have with allergies as a species are thought to be because our immune systems are relatively over-active due to the comparative absence of stuff like parasites living within us that would normally modulate our immune system to an extent.