Laurie Tümer is a photographer and teacher who lives with chemical sensitivities and multiple sclerosis in Espanola, New Mexico, where she runs the Eco-Casitas for Traveling Canaries. Julie Genser, founder of MCSsafehomes.com and PlanetThrive.com, asked her to share her experiences as a landlord for people with chemical, electrical, and other environmental sensitivities.
In the interview, Laurie explains how she decontaminated her home from a past synthetic pesticide contamination:
First, I contacted the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and followed their recommendations. A foot of dirt around the periphery of the building was first dug up and replaced with river rock. Then I contracted with a environmental company that cleans up toxic messes and worked closely with a chemist there. A friend had used a procedure she read about and tried with success. It neutralizes the gases of synthetic pyrethroids and other pesticides. The chemist studied the science behind the protocol and agreed to do the procedure.”
Read the full interview to find out what other measures Laurie took to make her home and her rental property safe.
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Earthwalker is the username that PT founder Julie Genser created for her online interactions so many years ago when first creating Planet Thrive.
Julie's (Earthwalker's) life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.
A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.
She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.
In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.
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