Many persons, primarily women, have become chronically miserable, easily fatigued, and painfully hypersensitive with a variety of manifesting symptoms, due to stresses brought about in part by toxic long-term environmental factors. These factors may involve undesirable exposures to chemical/particulate pollutants, electromagnetic/electric fields and other irritants which interfere with the normal body immune system, coping abilities, healing efforts and a healthy lifestyle. Exciting medical research, has been initiated this year, regarding system metabolic functions, which primarily involve previously undiagnosable thyroid-related symptoms in persons who are thyroid-resistant rather than thyroid-deficient [1-2].

For example, in addition to fibromyalgia (FMS) being a phenotypic expression of thyroid hormone resistance, so too appear to be chronic fatigue syndrome (CFIDS), gulf war syndrome (GWS), electromagnetic field sensitivity (EMFS), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), premenstrual syndrome (PMS), and breast silicone implant rejection syndrome. Persons afflicted with these seemingly-related dis-eases are especially affected by the many forms of stress we encounter every day, e.g., psychological, physiological, spiritual and environmental.

Strong psychosomatic overtones are related to all of the above symptoms, especially if they occur in women. It is a sad commentary on our male-dominated allopathic western medical system that only psychological causes are blamed and little is done to determine concurrent physiological or environmental factors. However, until a dependable biomarker is available to separate psychosomatic from only physiological effects, it will be difficult to treat the above listed conditions. Let us seriously consider the stress-reduction capabilities of Hemi-Sync sound therapy for these previously untreatably dis-eases, combined with prudent avoidance of stress factors