I have had MCS for 35 years. The best homes have bare bones meaning try not to have layers meaning if you have a cement floor basement either have the floors polished, not while you are living there or ceramic tile. No subfloors to put wood or laminate over the concrete. Less is best. No laminates, vinyls etc. prefinished hardwood and ceramic tile work for me. No new furniture comes into my house. Best paints are AFM safecoat also caulking. That is a USA company. My life has been hell but I have figured out how to do things. No fragrances or cleaning,products. Make my own. Hate vinyl plank flooring. How about we build houses without all this toxic crap. My son built a square log home. I had no problems visiting him from day one. Hardwood and ceramic on basement floor. Absolutely no gas stoves or wood burning….bothers us. There is formaldehyde free plywood.nnRockwool almost killed me. There is fiberglass insulation formaldehyde free. No spray foams. Mattresses are a problem. I own a very expensive Vispring. I am very allergic to memory foam and latex. Bedroom must be absolutely toxin free. Sleep deprivation makes MCS so much worse. Also your diet is very important. Thanks. From Ontario🇨🇦

Excellent Video! Glad to know I'm not alone struggling with this

Very cool discussion! Now I understand what I've called my "hypersensitivity to smells" like smoke and mildew have been my whole life.

Thank you for this excellent video.

Thanks for the medical advice!

I’m so glade we get to be your neighbors, you all are so informative. We love you guys and this channel ❤️

for those diagnosed with MCS: do you have days when you are symptom free?

I am the same smell everything… MCS its overwhelming. Moved to a new place I’ve been sick since I moved here an apartment in Vancouver. From the second I walk in the building it’s overwhelming

I had a really bad mold exposure. Now it’s almost everything like new apartment, rental cars, hotel rooms, etc. just moved in a new apartment but what is helping is tea tree eucalyptus and rosemary

Great interview! I learned a lot from both of you and look forward to learning more. Are there consumer and/or prosumer tools you can use to test for toxins, VOCs, etc that are already in your home or for a material or product that you are considering purchasing and installing or bringing into your home? I understand higher quality testing and measuring tools do cost more, but the more affordable tools like these get for homeowners to use and the easier they are to understand, the more I think they will help homeowners communicate to builders, remodelers and manufactures of materials and products what they do and do not want in their homes-thus forcing the market to positively adapt to the customers’ needs and wants.

If you want to know what things to eat and build with, go to any Old Order Amish community, see what they are using, and use it. I had a friend that lived near Mennonites, and I realized by visiting there that we need to adopt more of their way of life in this regard. I noticed they don't wear perfume, build with products that come directly from mother earth, that are literally only touched by hand and saw. They tend to live where the air is cleaner. They're pretty much chemical free. They also eat organic and have community support. Previous to me figuring out how to live with this whole MCS thing myself, I then thought maybe I should move in with the Old Order Amish for a few months to try and heal ... see if it was possible. I actually think I was on to something. If not moving in with them, we need to need to model after them in their foods and building products.

Who woulda thunk! Very interesting. Thanks.

I’m curious if there’s any other health diagnosis other than MCS/TILT may contribute this disorder?

So if LVP floors off gas so much, what types of flooring can be used on a concrete slab.

What is the safest carpeting?

Are there foods we can refrain from eating that will help lower our reactions?

Hi. How can I contact Corrine? I have a few questions. What is the best way to get scent out of vinyl flooring? And what would be the best way to clean walls to get a scent out of them as well? Thank you.

Sodium laureth (lauryl) sulfate

talked to Corrine years ago and would love to again. Is that possible?

I have severe chemical sensitivity that started 10 years ago, before that I did not. I cant be around anything now, fresheners, candles, soaps, etc etc, its ruined my relationships and social life, I'm severely depressed, why did I get it later in life ?? any thoughts.

Wait what you can’t smell flame retardant OK well that’s where each person with chemical sensitivity is so very different one from the other there are no exclusions 😢 I would laugh in certain MCS groups because one person who was fine with one product would even gaslight another person who was the human mind is a curious thing. But this is also why people with chemical sensitivities don’t do well living in community because one person sensitivity just limits another persons opportunity because we’re all similar yet different than what we’re sensitive to. It just increases the likelihood of incompatibility.

my parents spray insect spry outside my window every few days, n it brns me, just then I tried to go to bed, but my neck started twitching.. theres nowere to go.

Is there a CURE for MCS? Living this way is miserable.

No one understands. They get so angry and instead of understanding. I think it’s the bodies SOS and if something is toxic then my body doesn’t like it. So I think it’s good but the masses are so ignorant and literally has caused me to deteriorate. My elderly friend pees himself and also poops and I am deathly sick being around him. I’m literally one of the worst cases I have investigated. .

My Mother has EHS and MCS. They should speak with a mental health therapist about your covert venerable narcissism and OCD. Narcissists are extremely toxic people who pretend to be victims and EHS is one very strange form of extreme socially dysfunctional covert narcissism. The solution is overcoming the narcissism and the EHS is just psychosomatic so if you could fix the narcissism the EHS inherently is “fixed” also. You’re welcome. 🥰