Episode 31 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast is available now!https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is called “Podcasting, MCS and Community-Building.” It features a conversation with me, Aaron Goodman, founder and host of the podcast. I answer some listeners' questions about why I started The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, my experiences with the illness, community-building, and more. Thank you for listening! Please share yo...

Episode 30 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast is available now! Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is called “Powered Air-Purifying Respirators.” It features a conversation with two women in the U.S. who wear Powered Air-Purifying Respirators (PAPRs) so they can continue engaging in the world with MCS. You’ll hear Kyle Higgins and Mariann Martin explore: · How and when they started wearing PAPRs. · ...

Episode 29 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast is available now! Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is called “Man on a Mission: A Very Deep Exploration of MCS.” It features a conversation with Don Want, Ph.D., whose children's experiences with MCS led him to write perhaps the most comprehensive information about the condition. You’ll hear Don explore: His own family’s experience with MCS. Whether there could be diagnostic tests fo...

Episode 28 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast is available now! Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is called “Toxic Chemicals in our Blood and World.” It features a conversation with environmental journalist Anna Turns. You’ll hear Anna explore:The extent of chemical pollution in the world. An experiment Anna did to find out which chemicals are in her blood stream.How people can find out which chemicals are safe and which are not...

Check out Episode 27 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!The title is “An Environmental Physician Weighs In.” It features a Conversation Dr. John Molot, a doctor in Ontario, Canada who has specialized in MCS for over 30 years.You’ll hear Dr. Molot explore:· The primary mechanisms of the illness. · Why roughly 70% of people with MCS are women. · MCS and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS).· &nbs...

Check out Episode 26 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast! The title is “Stories of Grief, Acceptance & Strength.” It features a Conversation with Gail McCormick.Gail is a psychotherapist, former newspaper reporter, and writer based in Seattle in the U.S. She has lived with MCS for many years. In 2001, she published a book of interviews she conducted with dozens of people who had MCS across the U.S. Her goal was to find out how they were coping and how their emotional and ...

Check out Episode 25 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast! The title is “Safe Dentistry & MCS.” Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You will hear Dr. Amy Dayries, one of the world’s most knowledgeable dentists about MCS. She shares helpful information about how to find a dentist who understands MCS, testing for safe dental products, amalgams, root canals, and more. Dr. Amy DayriesInternational Association of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT)American Academy of...

Episode 24 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast is available now! The title is “A Physician with MCS.” It features a conversation with Dr. Ann McCampbell.Although she trained as a physician, Dr. McCampbell’s career in medicine was interrupted by severe MCS. However, she has devoted her life to raising awareness about the illness and helping people who have it. In our conversation, you'll hear Dr. McCampbell explore: · Whether tests coul...

Check out Episode 23 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast! The title is “Chemicals in Central America, Chemicals Everywhere.”It features a conversation with Alex Nading, Ph.D. Professor Nading teaches anthropology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in the US. He specializes in the impacts of pesticides and toxic exposures for people who work on sugarcane plantations in Nicaragua, climate change, and environmental health and activism. You will Professor Nading explore:&n...

Episode 22 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast is available now! The title is “Bodily Natures: Exploring Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.” You’ll hear my conversation with Professor Stacy Alaimo, who teaches at the University of Oregon in the US. She specializes in environmental humanities, American literature, and how writers explore environmental threats to oceans, plants, and animals. Professor Alaimo also has Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and describes it as relatively mild. We...

Check out Episode 21 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast! The title is “Putting Chemicals Back in MCS.”Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/ https://www.facebook.com/podcastingmcs This episode features a conversation with Varda Burstyn, longtime advocate for people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Based in Ontario, Canada, Varda is also an environmentalist, writer, and has lived with the illness for decades...

Check out Episode 20 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast! The title is “Snowflake, Arizona.” https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/ https://www.facebook.com/podcastingmcs It features a conversation with two long-time residents of Snowflake, a town in the northern part of the US state of Arizona. The community has gained a reputation among people with MCS as a relatively safe place to live, away from chemicals found in urban environments. You’ll hear Su...

Episode 19 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast is available now! The title is “Photographing The Canaries.It features a conversation with documentary photographer Thilde Jensen. Thilde talks about her internationally acclaimed 2013 book, "The Canaries." It's a compelling collection of self-portraits and photos of others with MCS. "The Canaries" by Thilde JensenDISCLAIMER: THIS PODCAST AND WEBSITE DO NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE The information, including but not limited to,...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!New episodes twice a month. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.Please support our work to help us continue creating greater awareness about MCS. Thank you very much!In Episode 18, “Toxicology & Communities of Resistance," I’m speaking with Melina Packer, Ph.D. Melina is a postdoctoral research associate in the Feminist Lenses for Animal Interaction Research (FLAIR) Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is cur...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!New episodes twice a month. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.Please support our work to help us continue creating greater awareness about MCS. Thank you very much! We really appreciate it. In this episode, I’m speaking with Andrea Lily Ford, Ph.D. Originally from California in the U.S., Andrea is now based in Scotland. She is an anthropologist and specializes in culture and medicine and works at the Centre for Biomedicin...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!New episodes twice a month. Subscribe for free wherever you get your podcasts.You can support our work to help us continue creating greater awareness about MCS. Thank you very much! We really appreciate it. In this episode, I’m speaking with filmmaker and singer-songwriter Susan Abod. Susan has MCS and focuses on the illness in her work.In our conversation, Susan explores:Her singing and songwriting about MCS.Her film, “Homesick...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!New episodes twice a month. Subscribe for free where you get your podcasts.If you like the podcast, you can support our work to help us continue creating greater awareness about MCS. Thank you very much! We really appreciate it.In this episode, I’m speaking with Professor Emily Lim Rogers. Emily is a Disability Studies researcher and educator who specializes in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or ME/C...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!New episodes twice a month. Subscribe for free wherever you get your podcasts.I’m speaking with author Marcus Sedgwick, who wrote the book “Snowflake, AZ,” published in 2019.The novel focuses on Ash, who travels by Greyhound bus to find their stepbrother Bly, who was last seen in Snowflake, Arizona. It’s a community where many people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) have settled, at an altitude of 6,000 feet in the desert, to...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!We release new episodes twice a month. Subscribe for free wherever you get your podcasts.This episode is titled “Fragrance-Free Church?” The focus is on churches, however, I think the discussion is relevant for anyone with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) who may be struggling to access indoor spaces, whether they are run by faith-based organizations or not. I’m speaking with Martha McLaughlin, author o...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!New episodes twice a month. Subscribe for free wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is titled "Parenting Children with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)."It features an insightful conversation with a woman who has MCS and is the mother of two teenage daughters who also have the illness and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). My guest and her daughters live in Colorado in the U.S. and have chosen to remain anonymous to pro...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast! New episodes twice a month. Subscribe for free wherever you get your podcasts:Google Podcasts Apple PodcastsSpotify YouTubeFollow the podcast online for updates and to share your feedback:FacebookTwitterInstagramTikTokThis episode is titled, "A Critical Link? Mast Cell Activation and Chemical Intolerance."My guest is Dr. Lawrence Afrin, a long-time physician and expert on MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome).You will ...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!New episodes twice a month. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to never miss one.This episode is about living in vehicles as a refuge.It features a conversation with two women with severe MCS. They have had to make difficult decisions to live in their vehicles because synthetic and scented chemicals that many people use make them very ill. You'll hear Maggie, who chose to use a pseudonym, and Evangeline Elmendorf Greene. B...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!New episodes twice a month. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to never miss one. This episode is about creating a fragrance-free policy.My guest is Mushim Ikeda.Mushim is a writer, poet, longtime Buddhism and mindfulness teacher, and Community Director at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland, California. She has played a key role in developing a fragrance-free policy at the center, and it is an excellent model...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!New episodes twice a month. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to never miss one. And follow the podcast on social media.The title of this episode is "MCS is Not an Anxiety Disorder." It features a conversation with Dr. Eleanor Stein. Dr. Stein is a a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Medicine. For over 20 ye...

Thank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!New episodes twice a month. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts to never miss one.And follow on social media for all updates.This episode features a conversation with Maya Dusenbery. Maya is the author of the extraordinary book, "Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick." Maya talks about why so many wome...