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New Journal for Chemically Sensitive
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Saturday, September 23, 2006

New Journal for Chemically Sensitive

I'm trying out this journal as a way of replacing the Chemsense Messageboard which got bogged down by spammers. I cleaned out their posts but they kept trying.

Whether they will overwhelm me here remains to be seen.

My hope is that people will be able to add comments and questions easily. The subject is chemical sensitivity. Please confine your posts to chemical sensitivity, environmental toxins, and detoxification. Thanks.

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  • #1 Comment from laplumlee 
    2/23/07 7:03 PM | Permalink
    We were excited 3 years ago when Dr. Gwen McKeown-Eyssen et al at the University of Toronto found a much higher prevalence of certain detoxification alleles in women with multiple chemical sensitivity than in control women.  Now a validation of the Canadian study has been published in Germany.  This strengthens the evidence that chemical sensitivity is more likely in persons with genetic limitations in detoxification.
    Here are the conclusions of the  German abstract:

    A cross-sectional study of self-reported chemical-related sensitivity
    is associated with gene variants of drug metabolizing enzymes

    Eckart Schnakenberg , Karl R Fabig , Martin Stanulla , Nils Strobl ,
    Michael Lustig , Nathalie Fabig and Werner Schloot

    Environmental Health 2007, 6:6 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-6-6

    Published 10 February 2007

    Conclusions: The results from our study population show that
    individuals being slow acetylators and/or harbouring a homozygous
    GSTM1 and/or GSTT1 deletion reported chemical-related
    hypersensitivity more frequently.