The Sensitives: The Rise of Environmental Illness and the Search for America's Last Pure Place

✍ Scribed by Oliver Broudy

• Book ID: 100293073
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: EN-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781982128548

✦ Synopsis

A compelling exploration of the mysteries of environmental toxicity and the community of "sensitives" --people with powerful, puzzling symptoms resulting from exposure to chemicals, fragrances, and cell phone signals, that have no effect on "normals."
They call themselves "sensitives." Over fifty million Americans endure a mysterious environmental illness that renders them allergic to chemicals. Innocuous staples from deodorant to garbage bags wreak havoc on sensitives. For them, the enemy is modernity itself.

No one is born with EI. It often starts with a single toxic exposure. Then the symptoms hit: extreme fatigue, brain fog, muscle aches, inability to tolerate certain foods. With over 85,000 chemicals in the environment, danger lurks around every corner. Largely ignored by the medical establishment and dismissed by family and friends, sensitives often resort to odd ersatz remedies, like lining their walls with aluminum foil or hanging mail on a...