Q _ Climate change is one factor causing increased respiratory allergies. What about the equally dramatic rise of eczema and food and drug allergies? Is our natural environment to blame for them as well?
_ Climate change is just one factor that is contributing to the problem. For our skin and gut, changes in our lifestyles and other man-made environmental changes are adding to the stresses on our immune cells. There are more than 85,000 chemicals listed under the EPA’s Toxic Substances Control Act, and obviously we’re interacting with things we wouldn’t have even 70 years ago.
