The caretakers of chemical intolerance patients, such as doctors and scientists, suffer from the illness too, and it has gone untreated and even been ridiculed for decades.
After discovering mast cells, an allergy and immunology expert at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Claudia Miller, thinks she has solved the problem of reactions to minute traces of a huge array of chemicals.
Miller’s condition, known as TILT, or Toxicant-induced Loss of Tolerance, is a mechanism for disease that can be triggered by pesticides, smoke, or even electricity.
Miller’s work butts up against the interests of huge companies and powerful people; she has spent her career watching her patients get dismissed.
Miller’s research on how chemical exposure affects neurodivergent people, such as Elon Musk, could “crack open the field,” she says.
