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? 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. 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. 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 Crops
Dutch Ban Glyphosate, France and Brazil Likely to Soon Follow
How can you clean or prepare your grains, seeds and beans to get rid of glyphosate? I regularly consume the ones at Sprouts but am not sure if they are getting ones sprayed with glyphosate and doubt I will get a stratight answer.
Hi,
I have used roundup three times now without knowing the devastating consequences about it. Can you please let me know much roundup is too much for the human body? Will it have an effect on me after three uses in the garden or do you have to have continuous exposure to it for it to be deadly? How sensitive would a pregnant women be to this? Would she be effected by it if she was say 50m away in the house? Your help is much appreciated.
Many thanks
Mark
Mark,
I am a professional landscaper an I work around an with roundup all day long. I spill it on me everyday. If you continuously get it on you like I do everyday it will eventually burn your skin and will eventually cause severe damage to your body. But after bout 5 to 6 time of getting it on you is when it takes effect of your body. I hope this helps you in the future.
Rounuup is toxic to humans and also the environment, using it will contribute to the pollition of our planet and also is just one product known to cause cancer. Supporting these companies isn’t positive, there are many alternatives to roundup that are natural and inexpensive- for example I use a mixture of vinegar, dr bronners soap, and salt (works just as well and you’ll save money, promote more natural ways of doing things, and you will decrease your contribution to pollution while preserving your health as well as the health of others. Roundup travels because its in our watershed so using it really is never controlled. I really care about the health of other people and I hope that one day Rounup won’t exist and neither will GMO foods and non organics.
I so hope this was a joke comment, roundup is not toxic unless you consume an entire bottle even then it would probably just make you feel like crap for a while.
Perhaps you did not read the article or watch the video; despite its labeling, Round-up is toxic because it disrupts the shikimate pathway in our gut bacteria, which in turn results in myriad degenerative diseases.
Okay, so why don’t you drink it then ?? I have lived on a golf course for 4 years now (regretfully ), The chemicals they use and the neighbors using Roundup, etc is killing me. I had to leave my job last year due to these poisons! I was always healthy and these chemicals have messed my system up. This stuff is really happening. A lot of children are getting cancer from this stuff and other diseases.
I ALWAYS wear a respirator
What works on poison ivy, my husband is very allergic to it so we need something sure-fire.
Try Ortho Brush B Gone…….or Remedy
I’ve used bleach, soapy water, etc and have had some success. The thing that works the best for the least effort is wait for fall right after the leaves have fallen off the plants. Get some thick rubber gloves with long gauntlets (like the ones they use for chemicals) and just pull it up by the roots. What I found is that all the ivy plants all over the place were from a couple dozen vines running all over the place. I put the plants/vines on a brush pile or in a swamp (where they don’t grow).
Remember, you’ll never really eradicate it, just manage it. Small animals need it anyway, so I just remove it from the places my kids go.
Grab a pair of gloves, long sleeve shirt, a shovel, and a wheelbarrow. Bring it to a burn pile and burn it. Get to work!
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Very important video as part of this article. It is an interview with researcher Dr. Stephanie Seneff and describes the connection of how glyphosate (key ingredient in Roundup) creates a problem with our gut bacteria, leaks and creates metabolic problems in us that results in gastrointestinal disturbances, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, infertility, alzheimers, autism, parkinsons. The video is an hour long but should be watched.
This is why for years I have been against spraying and pesticides. DDT has been banned for 40 years and it is showing up in the bodies of even small children. The bad thing is , there is very few places with virgin soil. Even organic farms may have been tainted with chemicals at one time. Scientists have shown a link already between pesticides and ADD and ADHD. Maybe the so-called “dumbing down of America”, may not be all the fault of poor schools.
Also linked to fatal kidney disease: http://rt.com/news/monsanto-roundup-kidney-disease-921/
Roundup’s effect on the gut biome, the seat of all human health and immunity, is disastrous. http://grist.org/food/gut-punch-monsanto-could-be-destroying-your-microbiome/
PLEASE consider not using round up