"The primary objective of this book, besides visiting the chemically sensitive and observing the common threads that run through their broken lives, is to look at the new research that is making it possible to glimpse the underlying biological mechanism driving this global health problem and begin to answer such key questions as why people stay sick years after leaving a toxic environment, why some get sick while others do not, and what can be done to interrupt the disease process that is keeping them sick"--Page 28.