Following the 2009 EU Directive on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides, the Pesticide Action Network, both in the UK and the EU, have been actively promoting the banning of pesticides in urban areas - our parks, pavements, playgrounds and verges - to encourage the wildlife that …
Chemicals
Ecological Medicine
Sarah Myhill is not everyone's idea of an average GP. Indeed so far was she from the GMC (General Medical Council)'s idea of an average GP that they tried to 'de-frock' her no less than 12 times. Only to have their attempts foiled by their own lawyers who pointed out that 'all …
Making your house care for you
We all live in our houses. They keep us dry, they keep us warm. But do they really 'look after us'? Most of us don't need them to but, if you have chemical sensitivities or, even worse, chemical sensitivities and electromagnetic sensitivities, then your house can feel as though …
Living with MI (methylisothiazolinone) allergy
Alex has done it again..... Found an extraordinarily abstruse subject (did you ever read his piece on gluten-free communion hosts?) and dissected it in great detail. But on this occasion he has not only dissected it, but reconstructed it into manageable and comprehensible …
Toxicant-induced Loss of Tolerance or TILT
A couple of months ago Dr Claudia Miller at the University of Texas commented on my blog about oat and corn sensitivity with some information about the work that her group, TILT, does with those who develop multi-system sensitivities, including food sensitivities, after being …