How I Became An Environmental Indicator Like The Honeybee
When I began to physically react to smells that are imperceptible and un-bothersome to most, I started to scratch my head with confusion. Was I mutating?
Yes, I had developed super nasal powers years ago after a near death experience (more on that later), but never before in my 43 years had I been perturbed by a waiter leaning down to refill my glass of water.
His mainstream cologne was offensive. He may as well have punched me. I certainly wanted to punch him.
When living in Los Angeles, I managed to live a relatively toxin-free life. But in unfamiliar Greece, the poisons I encountered were out of my control. Here are some of the wacky encounters that made me fear I was becoming a bubble girl.
- I was speed walking through the polluted city center of Athens, when I found myself repeatedly bristling at the vexing smell of car exhaust. As I held my breath and covered my nose with my tank top, my gaze fell upon a toddler in a stroller across the street. He was completely unfazed, as was his mother. In fact, no one else in the streets seemed to be disturbed by the smells. How could this be? Later, when I researched the air quality in the region, I learned that I was actually detecting and reacting to high concentrations of toxic particles, as well as photochemical smog linked to excessive nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and organic nitrates.
- While doing the dishes with Fairy, a bright green, liquid dishwashing detergent by Proctor and Gamble, my eyes watered and I got a headache. How do people use this crap?When I researched the ingredients, I discovered things like sodium laureth sulphate, 1,3-Cyclohexanedimethanamine, PPG (polypropylene glycols), and Dimethyl aminoethyl methecrylate/hydroxyproply acrylate copolymer cirate. These nasty ingredients that you can’t pronounce, let alone assimilate are toxic and even carcinogenic. On the lighter side, they cause irritation to the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes.
- Walking past the local newsstand of a small Greek village of 400, I found myself shaking my head to aerate my nostrils at the smell of newsprint. Wtf? It was overwhelming. Again, no one else flinched. Just for kicks, I googled “Is newsprint toxic?” While many printers have moved toward vegetable based inks over the last 30 years, some newspapers still use petro-chemical substances. Certainly this was the case in Greece.
I concluded that I’ve ironically become a veritable environmental indicator, just like the honeybees I’ve studied and documented for at least 15 years.
Today, I can see things with my nose that most of you cannot even detect.
In essence, I’ve become allergic to the 21st century.
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I never knew of someone else who could do this. My Hands also hurt if I pick up a contianer with poison in it , especially food. My MRI detective hands know as does my nose and body if the item or surroundings protects or enhances life,
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“no one else in the streets seemed to be disturbed by the smells. How could this be?”
They are locals, accustomed to it and you are not. Rather logical If you ask me
“Today, I can see things with my nose that most of you cannot even detect.”
Making claims you cannot support?
People detect smells that others don’t all the time, and finding the source is fruitless, It’s nothing new to Humanity as a whole. Perhaps you are psychic? You do claim NDE.
Do you ever smell rotting meat? Now that is serious – for somebody…
It all sounds rather normal to me. Indeed, maybe a call to your doctor may be in order in case it is something, insidious?
“a near death experience”
No such thing. Life and death are absolute, and until somebody can define how close to actual death such a claim is, which isn’t possible, It’s just more buzzwords and feeling special, it is nonsense.
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