William J. Rea, M.D. is a pioneer and one of the leading researchers and clinicians in the field of environmental medicine and chemical sensitivity. Dr. Rea is the director of the Environmental Health Center (EHC) in Dallas, TX (www.ehcd.com).
in this extensive and informative interview, Dr. Rea (pronounced "'Ray") explains that Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is an illness caused by food and/or environmental factors as wide-ranging as pesticides, air and water pollution, solvents and formaldehyde, gas stoves, fragrances, and electromagnetic fields.
He says a person can look for certain signs and symptoms that indicate their system is getting a toxic overload. "If they start getting odor-sensitive, for example to perfumes, gasoline, car exhaust, pesticides, cigarette smoke, newsprint—any noxious odor—they may have chemical sensitivity," he says.
"The next step in the progression of environmental illness tends to be a lot of allergies, and then people begin to develop multi-symptom disease that resists conventional treatment, such as PMS with colitis or spastic colon, heart arrhythmias, maybe asthma, or a combination of these things. Brain dysfunction is a common problem that we see—short term memory loss, imbalance, dizziness, vertigo. Anybody who has inflammatory disease of unknown cause can have environmental overload. These diseases can include Lupus, scleroderma, vasculitis, non-specific colitis, general indigestion, and arthritis."
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