Glyphosate, What is glyphosate, and why you should care!
If you have been living under a rock and never heard of Glyphosate, it's a herbicide that's been on the market and used since 1974. Farmers use it to kill weeds in their crops. It was discovered to be an herbicide by Monsanto chemist John E. Franz in 1970. It is in the product called Roundup. Glyphosate was first synthesized in 1950 by Swiss chemist Henry Martin, who worked for the Swiss company Cilag. The work was never published. Stauffer Chemical patented the agent as a chemical chelator in 1964 as it binds and removes minerals such as calcium, magnesium, manganese, copper, and zinc. (which is why we are all mineral-deficient)
Glyphosate is known to cause many health issues, including cancer, liver and kidney issues. It was told that Glyphosate is safe when used properly, but we all know they like to hide information from people. There have been many court cases proving that glyphosate has caused damages to people's bodies and Monsanto has lost several of these cases and agreed to pay $8.8 to $9.6 billion to settle those claims and $1.5 billion for any future claims. Cases keep coming up against Monsanto because of glyphosate.
Yet this product is still on the shelf for people to buy and use and 5 billion lbs of glyphosate are still being used in the farming community worldwide every year. Glyphosate works by blocking the shikimate pathway, a metabolic pathway that is important in plants for the synthesis of essential substances. Although the results of research vary, it is clear that at least a part of the glyphosate, up to about 35%, is bound to soil particles and minerals. These are then no longer available for the plant. What happens to this soil-bound residue in the future is unknown and can become a serious problem if the soil becomes saturated with glyphosate after many years of repeated use.
Since glyphosate is a systemic agent that works throughout the entire plant, it is not surprising that the substance also remains in the plant. Degradation in plants is small, which is why the maximum amount of glyphosate allowed in our food has been increased by the government to 1000 times in recent years. Remarkably high amounts of glyphosate have been permitted since 1994 in various grains and beef and sheep kidneys. It has been shown to be present in the entire body of humans and animals, therefore in the urine, organs, and even in the bone marrow. In animals, it is slowly but surely becoming clear that it has a major impact on health and reproduction.
The blood values of dairy cattle that had ingested glyphosate, were found to contain fewer trace elements/minerals than dairy cattle that had not come into contact with glyphosate. This is due to the fact that glyphosate binds trace elements and minerals, including calcium and magnesium. Glyphosate also forms compounds with heavy metals such as cadmium and arsenic. These cannot be broken down by the liver and damage the kidneys. Bacteria use the same metabolic mechanism as plants and therefore glyphosate also has an antibacterial effect, whereby the pathogenic bacteria usually do not appear to be sensitive and good bacteria, such as in the gastrointestinal tract, do. This is the case with cattle, wherein the microflora in the rumen, the bacteria needed for a good rumen action are negatively influenced by glyphosate. The immune system is also affected. For example, glyphosate appears to have an effect on IgM antibodies in dairy cows. Glyphosate has also been associated with the birth of malformed piglets and mysterious kidney disease in Sri Lanka and has since been banned there.
Glyphosate may be accumulating in higher levels in kids than in their parents, according to a biomonitoring study by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH), a nonprofit group focused on protecting people from toxins
Glyphosate is in the soil and in the water. Even if you have organic or non-gmo foods, you are still at risk of having glyphosate in your foods. Toxins are EVERYWHERE!!!
So what can we do to protect our families and ourselves from glyphosate? Even though we know glyphosate has crossed over to organic and non-GMO foods. It's not as bad as eating non-organic and GMO foods. You can take things to counteract and detox your body from Glyphosate. Fulvic/humic acid, Clinoptilolite, and Diatomaceous Earth. Fulvic and Glyphosate Clinoptilolite and Glyphosate Diatomaceous Earth and Glyphosate Here are the products I use daily to help with detoxing glyphosate.
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