Over fifty million Americans endure environmental illnesses that render them allergic to chemicals. Innocuous staples from deodorant to garbage bags wreak havoc on sensitives. With over 85,000 chemicals in the environment, danger lurks around every corner.

Freelance journalist Oliver Broudy explores environmental toxicity and the community of The Sensitives: The Rise of Environmental Illness and the Search for America’s Last Pure Place—people with powerful, puzzling symptoms resulting from exposure to chemicals, fragrances, and cell phone signals, that do not affect “normals.” The Sensitives is available for sale at this bookstore.

Dr. Ann McCampbel, a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based environmental illness medical advocate joins the conversation.