The first meeting of the new MCS group in Greenland
Chemical intolerance is not just a problem in heavily populated areas of the globe, but can also strike in the Arctic.
A new MCS support group for people in Greenland was created November 25, 2009 at a meeting in the capital of Nuuk. The meeting was held at the Qorsussuaq school, spearheaded by Rikke Østergaard Olsen, Apate Sandgren and Hanne Kleinschmidt.
The new organization has already been quoted in the local media and met with politicians about limiting fragrances in public spaces. The group intends to develop educational materials in the Greenlandic language to educate the public.
source: The March 2010 issue of MCSinfo, a publication of the Danish MCS organization “MCS Foreningen” (mcsforeningen.dk).
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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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If they keep using toxic materials for building, cleaning etc, it can be expected that more people will be sick with MCS. But they do have a great advantage in the form of all that clean arctic air.