Putting Chemicals Back in MCS: Varda Burstyn

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Check out Episode 21 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!
The title is “Putting Chemicals Back in MCS.”
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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.

You’ll hear Varda discuss her important and extremely well-researched report that she wrote with Maureen MacQuarrie in response to a 2021 paper published the Quebec National Institute of Public Health that claims MCS is an anxiety disorder.
Read the summary and report by Varda Burstyn:
"Putting the Chemicals Back in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity"
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Quebec paper & summary
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Chapitres

1. Putting Chemicals Back in MCS: Varda Burstyn (00:00:00)

2. Aaron introduces the podcast and episode. (00:00:05)

3. Varda discusses her appreciated for the podcast. (00:02:27)

4. Varda lays the foundation of the Quebec paper (00:03:34)

5. Varda explains her history of MCS. (00:06:34)

6. Varda discusses her response paper. (00:09:31)

7. Varda speaks of the Quebec paper's references. (00:12:37)

8. Varda discusses the process of her rebuttal paper. (00:15:45)

9. Varda talks about putting the chemicals back in MCS. (00:20:26)

10. Varda speaks of other good research pieces about MCS. (00:24:17)

11. Varda discusses best practices in research. (00:28:08)

12. Varda speaks of the volume that is the Quebec paper. (00:31:50)

13. Varda explains the troublesome outcome of the Quebec paper. (00:38:08)

14. Varda discusses the symptoms of MCS. (00:39:13)

15. Varda speaks of other research. (00:48:22)

16. Varda discusses fear. (00:52:53)

17. Varda talks about fear and anxiety. (00:53:54)

18. Varda explains that MCS is not just trauma. (00:55:34)

19. Varda continues the discussion of trauma and fear. (00:59:06)

20. Aaron explains a French doctor's response to the Quebec paper. (01:07:06)

21. Varda discusses the response from the French doctor. (01:09:17)

22. Varda speaks about immune responses. (01:11:18)

23. Varda talks about the distressed amygdala. (01:15:20)

24. Varda discusses why people should care about this report. (01:21:06)

25. Varda speaks of good research that has been done. (01:23:35)

26. Varda talks about what she would like from the authors of the Quebec paper. (01:27:58)

27. Aaron closes the episode. (01:32:44)