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
The blog is fine … it’s just the FB post that has the typo.
you should fix that and republish- or updat blog post
I actually just noticed that hubby still has a container of it stored way up high (I am short!) in our garage, so it’s like you are speaking right to me! 😉
Some “weeds” are actually good for you. Dandelions 🙂
Yep! There are actually people that have cured terminal cancer by drinking dandelion root tea… http://www.eco-babyz.com/2013/04/can-dandelion-tea-kill-cancer-cells.html
Oops, spelling wrong … meant glyphosate. Long day.
Do you know of anything that works that could be used commercially? I have wanted to get Round-up out of my husband’s business (lawncare), but he just hasn’t been convinced that anything will work as well.
Boiling water sounds good for the DIY, but what can be done for someone employed in the industry?
p.s. I understand if you do not have time to research this, Sarah. It’s ultimately my (our) responsibility.
Try an organic nursery. I have a pretty big one where I live and they do have options that use vinegar, clove oil, and salt mixtures that work.
We also have an professional organic lawncare service in our community so I know it can be done. We don’t use it ourselves, but others have told me it is wonderful if you live in a community that requires lawn maintenance and you want to get away from pesticides and herbicides.
we have had trugreen take care of our lawn the past 7 years..last year they killed it.Now they have slit seeded it with 100lbs. of seed do they use round up or some other bad chemicals..what can we do?
You know what this subject is? The mother of all blog posts.
And, thank-you…….
I worked in the lawn and garden center at walmart for 9 years and was constanly exposed to round-up and loads of other poisons, Do you have any suggestions on what i can do to specifically detox round-up and repair the damage done by it?
You might consider get your hair tested for heavy metals. If I were you I would google Andy Cutler Hall and his protocol for heavy metal removal. There are yahoo groups…but I believe one of the better ones is Adult Chelation. Get on there and post your concerns and they can help you get started…supplements to help and how to do it.
A lot of the problem with many of these toxins is the heavy metal exposure. This group addresses the removal of these and how to do it safely. But be sure you only do the Cutler protocol! It is the only really safe one that I am aware of. You can also google round-up and find out what the toxic things are in it. Mention it on the forum and they should be able to guide you.
Sorry, doing a round of chelation….so not quite with the program. lol I would still go for the hair testing….this sounds as if it works similar to mercury, invasive and slowly destroying the gut and body. If your exposure has be stopped and you start to clean up your body…then you can address more easily the issues that this causes. Mercury is just as insidious, and it can be dealt with and I am sure that this can be, too.
Start taking antioxidants , especially Curcumin. My husband used to love Roundup and worked in landscaping as a young man. About 18 mo. ago, he developed some leg pain which turned out to be Peripheral Neuropathy, but after having extensive lab work to rule out other things , the Dr. found some abnormal protein levels in his blood. He was referred to an Oncologist who told him he had a 30% chance of developing Multiple Myeloma and he needed to have labs every 3 mo. to monitor the levels. After doing some research I found that Roundup is linked to Multiple Myeloma so I made him stop using it immediately and started cleaning up his diet . We began juicing and drinking green smoothies and supplementing with antioxidants including Curcumin. I began ridding my kitchen of packaged and processed foods and we started eating “cleaner”. I am happy to say that by the 2nd lab test, his levels were back to normal! His Oncologist calls him his “miracle patient”! We now either pull our weeds by hand or he uses his Weed Dragon which is a hand held burner attached to a propane tank. You can find them online. FOOD CAN HEAL YOU!
If you watch the video (everyone should!!!), the origin of the damage is to the gut, so in addition to the other suggestions I would focus on healing the gut (GAPS intro diet, homemade broths, kraut juice, pastured animal fats, etc.)
When I was working in pro-ag I witnessed a Monsanto rep drink a shot of Round-Up to prove how safe it is. He said he did this at nearly every presentation he gave.
Wonder what happened to him?
Roundup doesn’t kill you right away like drinking a shot of hemlock … it kills you slowly and painfully through inevitable breakdown of the immune system and the wide range of ailments and conditions that stem from that. It would be interesting to know what happened to that guy though!
Roundup is worse than DDT. I doubt he’s alive. If he is alive, he is certainly not well.
I thought that’s how farmers in India committed suicide (the ones driven into debt by being forced to buy Monsanto seed each growing season)
They use pesticides if I recall correctly, rather than herbicides.
Lots of people are unclear as to what “pesticides” are. Herbicides ARE pesticides. “Pesticide” is the umbrella term for all the stuff that kills ‘pests’: Pesticides include herbicides (plant-killers), viricides (virus-killers), bactericides (bacteria-killers), insecticides (insect-killers) and so on.
For those who want to understand more, check out “pesticide” in Wikipedia.
And yes, the Indian suicides are such a tragedy! I forget which pesticide they’re killing themselves with when they find themselves more and more in debt to Monsanto, but I think it’s a Monsanto product.
Holy cow. What an idiot! Talk about being blindly and ignorantly loyal to a company.
It is likely what he was drining was not really Roundup.
drinking
It seems likely he put something less toxic in the bottle.
Hmm wonder if it was actually Round up or something non toxic.
What are some healthy, safe alternatives to killing weeds?
I’ve heard that vinegar works.
You would need to use 10% vinegar and pit a few drops of soap in it to make it stick. Spray under the leaf if possible. I’m in fl and have nasty torpedo grass everywhere. I’m trying to get rid of it but can’t find the Vinegar in the town I’m in. Any other ideas?
I use a tea kettle full of boiling water like Grandma. Works very well.
I concur with Sarah – boiling water straight from the kettle.
Try growing a bucket garden. The ‘weeds’ are not a problem.
Second, who convinced us ‘weeds’ are weeds.
In NZ where I was raised we found out that sheep need to eat weeds in their diet or they become trace mineral deficient.
Maybe we just need to relearn how to garden or farm, and stop following the ‘piper’ who only want us to be a CONSUMER for his profit.
A problem on our part is lack of EDUCATION in TRUTH, and second dealing with the deception we are fed through our sources of information.
What a blessing it is to be able to read Sarah’s HHE emails.
As we learn we can choose to stop BUYING the corruption and with numbers starve these organizations into bankruptcy.
Thank you Sarah.
Use equal parts of 20% vinegar and orange oil with a tsp. of molasses. Spray all surfaces of the weed thoroughly. Results within a day. Total kill within a week, usually.
One cup of salt, one half gallon vinegar and 2 tbsp.. of dish soap. I use a sprayer to apply. Also I saw where someone said boiling water and that works too. If you have snails just dig a shallow hole and set a dish in it then fill with beer ( I buy the cheapest I can find) snails go in and drown. If you Google you can find a safe cure for almost anything.