The Pure Cure

✍ Scribed by Wynters, Sharyn

• Publisher: Soft Skull Press
• Year: 2012;1992
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The human race has invented nearly every toxin imaginable. In our food, there are chemicals that kill pests, make foods ripen faster and grow bigger, and lengthen shelf life. In our clothing, chemicals make fabrics soft, keep them from wrinkling, make them fire retardant and resistant to stains, and keep them from collecting static. In our kitchens and bathrooms, chemicals create suds, remove grease, stiffen our hair, make our skin feel smooth, stop us from perspiring, change our hair color, lengthen our lashes, and make us smell good.

Unfortunately, many of these chemicals, designed to improve and simplify our lives, cause birth defects, hyperactivity, learning disabilities, attention deficit, early puberty, and developmental problems—to name a few.

The Pure Cure takes readers to a new level of awareness regarding the dangers of the toxins in everyday products and services. Taking a thorough and comprehensive approach, the book guides readers through every...

✦ Table of Contents

1 Front Matter
2 Introduction
3 Research Protocol for Clinical Evaluation
4 Exposures and Mechanisms
5 Epidemiology
6 Key Concepts: Chemical Sensitization
7 Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - What is It?
8 Case Definitions for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
9 Allergy and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) Distinguished
10 Design of Animal Models to Probe the Mechanisms of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
11 Antigen Specific and Antigen Non-Specific Immunization
12 Neuropsychiatric and Biopsychosocial Mechanisms in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: An Olfactory-Limbic System Model
13 Neurobehavioral and Psychosocial Aspects of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
14 Diagnostic Markers of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
15 Possible Mechanisms for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: The Limbic System and Others
16 Developing Clinical Research Protocols for Studying Chemical Sensitivities
17 Immunological Mechanisms of Disease and the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome
18 Considerations for the Diagnosis of Chemical Sensitivity
19 Occupational Asthma
20 List of Contributors
21 List of Participants