Healing Severe Chemical and EMF Sensitivity - by Gary Patera.

“Healing Severe Chemical and EMF Sensitivity” by Gary Patera.  A Review

Gary Patera’s wife became seriously ill with MCS and ES.  He is not a doctor, but he and his wife tried many treatments and found some that were effective. She recovered fully in 9 months. Some of their approaches are now widely accepted as treatments for ES, (eg. earthing) others are less well known (eg Emotional Freedom Technique and Cranio-sacral Therapy).

Gary and his wife threw everything but the kitchen sink at the problem, so there are lots of treatments suggested in the book.  This can feel a bit overwhelming, but it does have the advantage that if you’re unable to do one of the treatments, there’s likely to be something similar you can do instead.

Although I found a lot of useful information in the book, I disagree with Patera’s assertion that, “heavy metal toxicity is of no concern in most cases of ES, but might play a role in exceptional cases.”  This conclusion is taken from a study in which the level of heavy metals in the blood of people with ES were compared with those of the general population, and found to be no higher.  However,  levels of heavy metals in the blood are only an indicator of current and very recent exposure to heavy metals – they do not reflect past exposure and do not, therefore, reflect the amount of heavy metals stored in the body.
I think that heavy metal toxicity plays a major role in the development of ES for many people and that this is reflected in the improvements often seen in the symptoms of people who do metal detoxes.

However, overall, I found the book useful and would recommend it.