You’ve seen the commercials. All American Dad, pump sprayer in hand, attacking those pesky weeds growing in the cracks of his family’s driveway with a vengeance. He chooses Roundup, of course.
Why? Â Because Roundup kills weeds to the root so they won’t come back making you the laughingstock of your suburban neighborhood.
Roundup, Roundup everywhere. Most homeowners use it without a second thought. Many schools even use it, blithely spraying around planting beds and sidewalks where children walk and play, tracking its residues into classrooms, cars, homes and little bodies.
Roundup is indisputably the King of Herbicides and one of Monsanto’s most lucrative crown jewels. Not only is it widely used by consumers, it is also heavily used by industrial agriculture – more popular than any other herbicide worldwide. Its residues are found on the staple crops of the Western diet – sugar, corn, soy and wheat – and in the plethora of processed foods made with these foods as well. Â In particular, GMO corn and soy are heavily doused in Roundup as these crops are genetically engineered to be immune to its withering effects.
The trouble is, while Roundup is highly effective at killing weeds, it’s also proving highly effective at killing us too – slowly but surely and insidiously – via Roundup’s deadly active ingredient – glyphosate.
While the pesticide industry maintains that glyphosate is minimally toxic to humans, new research published in the Journal Entropy strongly argues otherwise by shedding light on exactly how glyphosate disrupts mammalian physiology.
Authored by Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff of MIT, the paper investigates glyphosate’s inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, an overlooked component of lethal toxicity to mammals.
In the in-depth video interview below on her groundbreaking research, Dr. Seneff describes the mechanism by which the glyphosate in Roundup disrupts human biological processes.
The currently accepted view is that glyphosate is not harmful to humans or any mammals because the shikimate pathway found in plants is absent in animals. Â The shikimate pathway is involved with the plant’s synthesis of certain amino acids and is lethally disrupted by glyphosate.
What has been completely overlooked until now is that the shikimate pathway is present in beneficial gut bacteria, which play a critical role in human health. Gut bacteria aid digestion, prevent permeability of the gastrointestinal tract, synthesize vitamins and provide the foundation for robust immunity.
Glyphosate Disrupts the Functioning of Beneficial Gut Bacteria
In synergy with disruption of the biosynthesis of important amino acids via the shikimate pathway, glyphosate inhibits the cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes produced by the gut microbiome. CYP enzymes are critical to human biology because they detoxify the multitude of foreign chemical compounds, xenobiotics, that we are exposed to in our modern environment today.
As a result, humans exposed to glyphosate through the use of Roundup in their community or through the ingestion of its residues on industrialized food products become even more vulnerable to the damaging effects of other chemicals and environmental toxins they encounter!
What’s worse is that the negative impact of glyphosate exposure is slow and insidious over months and years as inflammation gradually gains a foothold in the cellular systems of the body.
The consequences of this systemic inflammation are most of the diseases and conditions associated with the Western lifestyle:
- Gastrointestinal disorders
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Heart Disease
- Depression
- Autism
- Infertility
- Cancer
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Alzheimer’s disease
- And the list goes on and on and on …
In summary, Dr. Seneff’s study of Roundup’s ghastly glyphosate uncovers the manner in which this lethal environmental toxin gradually and inevitably disrupts homeostasis in the human body with the tragic end result of disease, degeneration, and widespread suffering.
Still want to “shoot” those weeds this weekend with some Roundup and buy those unlabeled, GMO laced processed foods in the pretty packages at the supermarket?
In addition, Roundup residue in organic hydroponics is possible as there is no transition period from conventional farming. Stick with soil based organics!
References
Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases
Institute of Responsible Technology: Monsanto’s Herbicide–Featuring the Darth Vader Chemical
More Toxic Than Declared
More Information
Toxic Wheat
Glyphosate used on DOZENS of Food CropsÂ
Dutch Ban Glyphosate, France and Brazil Likely to Soon Follow
Another issue with Roundup is PCBs for some reason Monsanto puts PCBs in Roundup. Just because it is not listed on the label does not mean it’s not there.
my sister has had cancer for years which the doctors at a well known research hospital confirmed her cancer was from ROUNDUP.
RIGHT NOW SHE IS FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE after going through treatments for many years. to me it is disgusting that other
countries have banned ROUNDRUP and this country is still selling it. plus where is the outrage from the doctors who treat
people who are dying from ROUNDUP!
I too thought roundup was safe to use. Sprayed around my house and flower beds yesterday. By last night I was feeling dizzy. My vision was sparkly and sometimes black. My head felt like it was in a vice. Took some tylanol, drank some milk, and went to bed. Symptoms are less this morning but not completely gone. Wore long sleeves and gloves, but did not think to wear a mask. Apparently a mask should be used when applying this product. Apparently I must have breathed in some of the product and it affected my nervous system.
Did anyone actually watch the Johnson trial? There was absolutely no factual evidence to say Glyohosate caused his cancer. He contacted the chemical only a handful of times his entire life and somehow finds that to be the cause of his Cancer? The lab study they used in the trial showed that rats exposed to Round up crops grew tumors, what they didn’t say is that the same study also showed that the rats that drank round up grew far less tumors than even the control group of rats exposed to nothing. (So if you believe the study then you should be drinking round up to have less of a chance if developing cancerous tumor) Also the species of rat used in the trial is known to develope tumors o. It’s own without exposure to anything.
Think of all the farmers exposed to Round up constantly…where are they in this lawsuit? Why a man who was exposed only a handful of times?
The lawyers played on. The emotions of the jurors and the emotions of Americans. The arguments were non existent factually and only emotionally charged.
To be cautious of chemicals is smart but to claim they cause death when there is so much scientific evidence to the contrary is just IRRESPONSIBLE and these actions are exactly why Americans are not paying attention to media outlets any longer.
Does anyone know if this was used in Scotland UK in the early 70’s, in fields. So many of us who were children at that time, living in an area surrounded by fields have gone into adult life and developed cancer/ms. Some have already died
Ignorance is no excuse to spread lies. Monsanto just lost a huge lawsuit to a worker who got cancer after exposure to Glyphosate. Class action lawsuits are in the works now. Only problem is Monsanto was just purchased by Bayer in one of the largest mergers in history. Convenient timing, they may be able to suppress the truth for another 30 years, at the cost of countless lives sacrificed to the profits of these monsters in charge. It’s much like the tobacco story written by greedy, evil people decades ago, at the cost of millions of lives and counting. Remember when nurses, doctors and patients could smoke in the hospital? Ignorance prevails among the blind and gullible, at their demise.
Tony
Sorry to be the one to throw a wet towel on the pity parade but here goes, Glyphosate, Roundup, has been tested and retested by many countries and organizations exhaustively and it’s never been linked to cancer, it’s been proven safe time after time. Scare mongers love to spread rumors as fact, look at Aspartame, the crazies put it in the same category as cyanide. Use common sense when using Roundup, don’t drink it, don’t wash in it and you will be fine.
You must be a mercenary corporate troll paid to leave propaganda comments on sites like this. Moving the goalposts aren’t we? Roundup has always been claimed to be SAFE for drinking by Monsanto but you’re saying it’s not??? The courts are finding that roundup exposure IS RESPONSIBLE for causing cancer if you’ve been keeping up with the latest in a string of lawsuits. Monsanto is LOSING in court on this issue. And contrary to your “Roundup has been tested and retested by many countries and organizations” myth, countries are BANNING roundup and other glyphosate based herbicides. https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/roundup-banned-netherlands-france-brazil-likely-soon-follow/
The total is now 13 or so countries that have banned it. https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/germany-13-other-countries-say-no-glyphosate-what-about-us
Bravo!!! I was researching other areas of support for an article on why it’s more beneficial to eat organic. There’s nothing in your post that I didn’t agree. Spot on!! Well done.