by banned » Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:10 am
Years ago when the government and military were totally stone walling on GWS, a friend of mine pointed out the similiarities between it and CFS which I then had. What underlies both is MCS, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, which is when the number of environmental poisons invading the body cause a catastrophic collapse of the immune system. But instead of failing as in AIDS the immune system becomes deranged. In some ways it leads to more illness, because of the depletion of Natural Killer Cells, the first line of defense; but in other ways the immune system is UPregulated, worsening allergies and creating new ones.<br><br>But what I found interesting as well were the differences between GWS and CFS. GWS supposedly could be spread to loved ones, especially spouses, where CFS supposedly wasn't contagious though there were some reports of cases where a spouse seemed to get it. That of course could have been due to exposure to the same environmental toxin/s, the first to get it was just more sensitive to it/them ("the canary in the coal mine"). I know chemical contaminants in someone else can spread--the precipitating factor for me getting CFS was a vet using so much flea spray on my cats (against my orders) while boarding them that when they came home, they stank of it. They slept on my bed, right next to me. Two months later I had what after much misdiagnosis was finally found to be CFS. Interestingly the doctors totally refused to believe me about the chemical connection, even though they admitted they had no idea what caused it!<br><br>Now knowing about DU as a big component of GWS, I have to wonder if the sufferers are actually emitting low levels of radiation and making their loved ones radioactive as well.<br><br>The countries where DU has been used will pay the price for generations to come. (I'm not callous about 'our troops' but they're only a fraction of the victims.) Its use is purely and simply a war crime.<br><br>The other crime is that while not easy it IS possible to detox from chemical exposure but the medical community is in denial about MCS and in some cases claims there is no such thing. And they'd rather sell sick people on medications or 'treatments', and the supplement industry targets them too. There are very cheap and relatively easy ways to do it yourself and not spend a fortune: brown rice, miso, garlic, onions, juice fasts (fresh squeezed organic produce only), detoxing herbs, liver and gallbladder cleansing, colon cleansing, coffee enemas, switching to organic food, spring water, getting a water filter so you don't absorb chlorine/chloramine when you bathe, eliminating food storage materials that contaminate the food, getting rid of your microwave, ridding your home of fabrics and materials that outgas chemicals, letting someone else pump your gas, using only the purest laundry soap....some cost nothing, others a small upfront expense (eg, 100% organic cotton bedding). The biggest expense for me was my juicer which was 100 bucks but it paid itself back many times over in savings over drinking bottled juices which really aren't good for you anyway.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
