The Bubble project’s goal is to obtain funds by June 2012 to purchase a safe living and working environment for Linda.    She has preliminary scoped out several spaces that would work and they run about $300,000. (more…)

Linda is a gal with environmental illness from a mercury poisoning incident.  She has a heart for Christ and was going to the mission field until God had other plans for her life.   Now she is building her life back to be able to serve others.  Her dream is to help others with environmental illness find safe havens.

This website/blog is all about her EI struggle in hopes that others will be able to benefit from the lessons learned.   At this point she is trying to raise money to live and work in a safe environment herself.   Her hope is that this website/blog will be a place where people can donate money and also tell share their story on how they live with environmental illness or how God touched their heart through this work.

Living with environmental illness is challenging – not being able to be exposed too long to anything.  She lived in the wilderness for a while like most who have environmental illness.  She now lives in a small apartment that is fairly environmentally safe for her. (more…)

This was an interesting find on a note board, when searching for a new symptom of my candida die-off.. rusty/metallic smelling body odor…I haven’t been able to substantiate the information, but the technical details made me think this is true since the die-off is known to increase the aldehydes….

For those who don’t understand the tie in… environmental allergies are worse in a body with Candida overrun… kill the Candida and reduce the reactions once you get through the die-off period which makes everything worse… eventually the scales tip and the pain is worth the gain… just be prepared for going into the fire when you start the process. It is not easy and it take months.
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A ‘metallic’ smell is just body odour

The pong from handling iron or copper comes from your own skin.
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After you’ve grasped an iron railing, a door handle or a piece of steel cutlery, your hand often gives off what seems to be a metallic odour. But Dietmar Glindemann of the University of Leipzig, Germany, and his co-workers say that you’re not smelling the metal at all.

They have found that the musty odour comes from chemical compounds in your skin, which are transformed in an instant by the touch of iron. They report the results in the international edition of Angewandte Chemie.

Copper has a similar effect, accounting for the metallic smell created by handling coins made of copper alloys. “When a shopkeeper hands you a coin,” says Glindemann, “you’re smelling his body odour.”

The smelly reactions induced by these metals create “the sensory illusion that it is the ‘metal in itself’ that we smell right after touching it”, the researchers say. In other words, a ‘metallic’ smell is only deemed to be so by association.

Glindemann began studying this question years ago when he became curious about the garlic-tinged metallic aroma of iron after it has been touched by a sweaty palm. He found that acids naturally present in sweat induce reactions between carbon and phosphorus impurities typically present in iron, generating smelly, volatile molecules called organophosphines.

But the ‘metallic’ smell left on your hands after you handle iron or copper was different from the scent of metals touched by acid in the lab. “This problem tortured me for five or six years,” Glindemann says.

The breakthrough came when he teamed up with environmental chemist Andrea Dietrich at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. She was trying to understand why people often complain of a metallic taste in drinking water.

Exploring the issue of metallic taste led her to think about metallic smell. That took her to Glindemann, and they cracked the problem together.

The researchers captured the vapours emitted from the skin of people who had handled iron objects, and studied their chemical composition. The gases contained several compounds called aldehydes and ketones, which often have strong and distinctive smells. The odour of preserving fluid, or formaldehyde, makes for the characteristic reek of old anatomy labs, for example, while the ketone acetone makes the distinctive solvent whiff of nail-varnish remover.

These compounds are produced by rapid reactions between iron or copper and oils on our skin.
Is that mushrooms?

One such compound in particular, called 1-octen-3-one, which is found in the vapours above skin touched by iron, is particularly smelly. Humans can detect it at very low concentrations, and experience it as a mushroom-like, metallic odour.

The researchers think that every person generates a subtly different blend of odorant molecules when they touch metal, and that this blend may change if the individual has a disease such as cancer. So analysing the chemicals in ‘iron smell’, for example, might provide a kind of medical diagnostic tool. “We’re now working to see if the smell caused by iron on skin provides a fingerprint of disease,” says Glindemann.

The reactions could also explain Dietrich’s question of why drinking water sometimes tastes metallic: organic food particles could be reacting with rust in the water to help form the odour compounds.

Donating your space can be a great benefit for the Environmentally Ill and yourself in this economy.  You can get tax breaks for either  the rental of the space or the space itself..  You have to check with your accountant as to how that would best work for you. (more…)

One of my favorite protective devices is a thick leather hat that I picked up in my travels while hiking in Tasmania… Here is a picture of me and my hat visiting the Grand Canyon. (more…)

On the more exciting item…. The mercury poisoning took out my endocrine system… when tested I was below menopausal at the level of a teenager even though my cycle was regular and predictable down to the hour…  Went on HRT which helped a lot but I’ve been trying to get off the estrogen since my body seems to have been thrown into menopause… and the environmental doctor has me on new amino acids and to rebalance the HPA Axis (endocrine basis).  This HPA Axis controls the sex hormones… (more…)

Dearest friend-

I am so glad you went to the emergency and not wait for things to get better on their own… I don’t know about the acid in the sinus…  mucus is normally base… My thought is the burning you feel is from the salt clearing out on infection or killing the bacteria.

But it could be a basic chemical reaction that you are feeling the electrical component to it because you are so (more…)

This post is written from my research, training and personal experience, for a few friends who have cell phone issues… some of the statements are my conclusions by putting two and two together based on different research and has yet to be proven by any government agency…

Cell phones for anyone is a dangerous tool, they seem so innocent, but they have not been effectively evaluated. For the Multiple Chemical Sensitive (MSC)/ Electromagnetic Hypersensitive (EHS) person they are doubly harmful.   (more…)

Linda has searched the world over for products that are healthy for both the physical body as well as the spiritual energy body.   She found toxin free. 100% vegan products that are made from living food sources proven to work with the body, not against it because of some processing method destroying its value.

Click on the photo to go to www.WisePotions.com

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is the base illness for Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS).  Those with MCS may or may not have the EHS component.  Many time the person with MCS can remember the smell of the overpowering chemical exposure that initiated their illness.  Something triggers in the person so they become super sensitive to everything, including natural body odors from their own body.  (more…)

LessEMF.com carries products that can help in your remediation of electrical or magnetic issues.

Advice,  first figure out if you have a problem with electric, magnetic or radio frequencies things can get costly and you could be trying to fix the wrong thing. (more…)

The Chemical Injury Information Network is a great source of information for those with environmental illness.  It doesn’t allow articles on treatment options, but it will provide some in sites into some of the things we face and is great for keeping a breast of the legal changes for the illness.

www.ciin.org