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To All, This topic comes up from time to time and and I thought I would start a resource page for it. I hope it is helpful! See this nice article about it.... https://gmoscience.org/2020/01/15/glyphosate-and-roundup-disrupt-the-gut-microbiome-by-inhibiting-the-shikimate-pathway/ To create a fair and balanced discussion I am including a pro and con link and the reason it is/was done in the first place.....though in retrospect everything is always clearer in the rearview mirror so to speak. Here is why Roundup begain to be sprayed on crops in the first place entitled "Why Is Glyphosate Sprayed on Crops Right Before Harvest?" https://www.ecowatch.com/roundup-cancer-1882187755.html And here is the truly scary part in all this......it is not just grain crops (where it is commonly known this practice occurs) but it is in/with other crops that you might not have a clue it (Roundup) is used on as well. https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/pre-harvest-roundup-crops-not-just-wheat/ Why this list is little old.....there is probably a better list these days......since the use on grains has drawn the more attention to this topic but it is informative just the same.....scroll down to you begin seeing their list of crops that Roundup is or was being sprayed on to "help them ripen" faster or dry them out......so their harvest could be sped up??? It migh suprise you......it did me! I hope this is helpful but it is not medical advice. Posterboy,
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More Than Half of Human Gut Bacteria Could Be Harmed by Glyphosate
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Celiac.com 12/07/2020 - A team of researchers has established the first bioinformatics method to determine and test the potential biological sensitivity of living organisms to glyphosate, the chemical in the herbicide commercially marketed as Roundup. Their research shows that glyphosate may negatively affect more than half of bacteria strains that make up the human gut microbiome. The research team included Lyydia Leinoa,Tuomas Talla, Marjo Helandera, Irma Saloniemia, Kari Saikkonen, Suvi Ruuskanena, and Pere Puigbòacd. They are variously affiliated with the Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, the Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, Finland, the Nutrition and Health Unit, Eurecat Technology Centre of Catalonia, Reus, Catalonia, Spain, and the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. The team managed to identify the enzyme targeted by the broad-spectrum herbicide, glyphosate, and offers the first bioinformatics method for determining potential glyphosate sensitivity. Glyphosate targets an enzyme called 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) in the shikimate pathway, which synthesizes three essential aromatic amino acids (phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan) in plants. "Based on the structure of the EPSPS enzyme, we are able to classify 80-90% of microbial species into sensitive or resistant to glyphosate," says Docent Pere Puigbò, developer of the new bioinformatics tool. Glyphosate has been regarded as safe to use because shikimate pathway is found only in plants, fungi and bacteria. However, the widespread use of glyphosate may reduce the diversity and composition of microbial communities, including the human gut microbiome. The team's new method has allowed them to create a dataset of EPSPS sequences from thousands of species that will enable major research advances. The method resulted in the classification of sequences from nearly 90% of eukaryotes and more than 80% of prokaryotes. Analysis made with the team's new bioinformatics tool shows that more than half of the human core gut bacterial species are potentially sensitive to glyphosate. "This groundbreaking study provides tools for further studies to determine the actual impact of glyphosate on human and animal gut microbiota and thus to their health," explains Docent Marjo Helander. Read more at the Journal of Hazardous Materials- 8 comments
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hi All, I had been getting so gradually sick that I don't know when it started, (but I am now assuming 1994). In 2008, I succumbed to pressure from my insurance rep to get more insurance, and they would even come to my house to test my blood. I was denied insurance and recommended to see my doctor, who told me I had the liver of a severe alcoholic. I very rarely drink. I went for tests and the doctor was baffled. He said I should lose weight. He said it was likely fatty liver disease. That was 2008. For the next few years I got tests, tried to eat healthy, and every so often I would see if it was helping my liver numbers. I got stomach aches when I ate toast or a sandwich, but didnt link it to the toast except later, in hindsight. How could toast give me a stomach ache? Anyway, on the advice of my doctor, I tried very hard to lose weight, so went lo-carb. One day, I had had no breakfast and at church 'goodie-time' was unable to resist all the carbs. Later that afternoon, I felt like someone had literally poisoned me. This was now 2011. I decided to not eat or drink anything but almonds and organic cold pressed apple juice in a glass jar, and ate only those things for the next 3-4 days while I looked for symptoms on the Internet. I narrowed it down to celiac disease and went to the doctor. I refused to eat gluten to get the test. I decided not to eat gluten and I got better. I then started a job in China. I learned how to say things like "no soy sauce" since it's made from wheat. I got so much better. I knew what my reactions were to gluten, especially the one that happened first: I would get a shakiness inside, like my blood system was micro-vibrating. i got the flu and was in bed for three days straight eating only mandarin oranges and water. After a couple of days, I got that shakiness, suddenly, lying in bed. I was astounded, cause I had only water and oranges. Then I remembered that I had taken two Advil, in the gel cap form. I looked on the Internet, and sure enough, the gel caps contained gluten. Wow. Even that small amount in two gel caps set it off. I was very vigilant. Then one day, back in Canada, I was making hot dogs for a four-year-old and I had fresh bakery buns. I couldn't resist. I guess I thought, well, it's been a couple of years gluten free, let's see what happens. I ate one and a half huge bakery hot dog buns on impulse. Big mistake. I got so, so sick. I was sick for 6 weeks with various symptoms. Spleen pain, liver pain, kidney pain, migraine headaches, stomach issues, constipation, dizziness, brain fog, irritability, etc. This was 2013. After one week of still being sick, I thought it's probably too late, but I should get that celiac test to see if there are detectable antibodies. I went to the doctor, who didn't think it was necessary and insisted it was fatty liver disease and not celiac. He humoured me and gave me the requisition anyway. It wasn't too late! One week later. i was shocked to see that my antibody level was 99. ( If you have less than 20 you don't have Celiac. It is called tTg test). If you have 100, they say you don't really need a biopsy and it's pretty much confirmed celiac. The doctor was a little bit embarrassed and said, "looks like you've diagnosed yourself". So finally he shut up about fatty liver disease. I got so much better living in China. I occasionally slipped. I then went back to canada for a year. I developed DH, as I got these lesions starting on my thumb and then on my fingers and palms. Finally after 6 months I cut out dairy. I had heard it was also somehow bad for Celiacs from the Internet but I really didn't want to cut out dairy as it was bad enough without gluten. I finally did and the DH cleared up. Then back to China. I would go back to Canada twice a year for the time off from spring and summer holidays. It was really hard to be around western food temptations and I would get "glutened" even though I tried hard. I began to get a strange pain in my leg and the doctor in canada said it was likely arthritis in my hip. i went for an xray but it didnt show anything. it really killed me to get that pain in my leg and then in my hip. i would cry out and have to sit down. i started riding my bike to work in china cause it was painful to walk very far. I had started to reintroduce dairy while in China and found that I could eat yogurt, which I love. I had heard that people blamed their gluten reactions on Roundup, or glyphosate, because they could eat flour products in other countries but not North America. One day about six months ago I made cookies for my students. I wore gloves and was very careful. Before this, I wouldn't even be in the same room with flour. But nothing happened. Then I tasted a cookie. Nothing happened!! The next day, I ate a whole cookie. Nothing happened!! I began to think there was something to the theory of North America and roundup. I still avoided flour in general cause I didn't want to push it, but I started eating soy sauce and relaxed a bit - started going to restaurants in china, etc. instead of micromanaging food in my kitchen, cause I was evidently not reacting to gluten in China. I then realized that the only episodes of pain I had had were when I was in Canada the previous summer and spring. Very strange. So. I got back to Canada, last spring, had my usual gluten free meal on the airplane, and then visited my mother. I ate only organic yogurt. Nothing else, and a few hours later I was attacked by almost every gluten related pain I had ever had. My hip was suddenly shooting pain and I cried out and limped to the couch. My mother asked, what did you eat? I said, nothing! Only organic yogurt! Of course after any glutening, it takes weeks for these pains to subside, and I endured pain stabs in my spleen for a while. Then back to China, where I was able to eat normally. No pains, nothing. I ate yogurt, made myself with uht milk imported from Germany or Australia, and I was fine. Until the day when I ate one of the chocolate bars I had brought from Canada as prizes for my students. Instant reaction! Spleen pain! I had heard that sugar cane was as bad as flour for being drenched in roundup. Now I was convinced. It was definitely stuff from Canada that was the culprit. Only farm products. Yes, they say the yogurt is organic, but I'm sure they feed the milk cows hay that has been exposed to roundup. Now I know exactly what I can eat and where. I love the food here, and it's safe. There are exceptions. They use pesticides on fruit, cause I get a stomach ache when I eat certain fruits, but it's a different reaction that the gluten reaction, I can eat flour products without a huge reaction, but I still have celiac, because I do get reactions even from Chinese flour, just not as bad as I did before. A mild sick feeling, like something is off, kind of unbalanced, and of course the inevitable shakiness. I react much worse to Canadian chocolate. But there is a huge difference between food here and food there. A very painful difference. Hard to figure out, but I think I have. so here's my theory, roundup actually causes the celiac disease, or whatever disease you might happen to be genetically susceptible to. (My uncle has arthritis in his hip). If you keep ingesting it, you will get gradually sicker and sicker and get some kind of disease. If you stop eating roundup completely, you will heal with a healthy diet. If you already have a disease like celiac or DH you can manage it and stay healthy if you are totally roundup free. My dad died of nonHodgkins lymphoma and he insisted it was the roundup the neighbor had been spraying on his farm, right next to my dads organic hobby farm. Now I believe him. I wish I'd been able to piece this together a bit earlier. Since 1994, many diseases have hugely increased. That's when they started with the roundup and there is a one on one correspondence on the graphs with roundup use and many diseases. sorry for the novel but I just can't keep this all to myself, I'm like the canary in the mine. But roundup is everywhere so I don't know if you can really avoid it in North America, sadly. My advice is to move elsewhere and figure it out like I did. i saw a youtube video by an MIT researcher that they are now figuring out that glyphosate actually takes up the place of the essential amino acid glycine in your body. Because they are molecularly similar, glyphosate gets in there and stops glycine from being able to do it's job in your body. So it causes all sorts of problems in a gradual way and eventually you will have trouble. i hope this helps! Stay away from farm products! I hope it's not true what the conspiracy theorists say (that they are spraying chemicals, chemtrails etc. I don't know if they are spraying roundup) but if it is, that's the end of the world as we know it. I don't really want to go there, I just know what I know and I'm sharing it. this is just the short version but I've tried to include important info. Anyone else have a similar story in any way?
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Celiac.com 09/13/2018 - Bob’s Red Mill finds itself under fire by two women who claim the company knowingly hides the presence of an allegedly cancer-causing weed killer in its steel cut oat and rolled oat products, and falsely advertises those products as healthy. Tamara Frankel and Natasha Paracha filed a federal class action in San Francisco, alleging that parent company Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods knows that its oat products contain or likely contain glyphosate, but fails to disclose it on the label. The women cite a recent report by the Environmental Working Group, an environmental research and advocacy group, which claimed to find traces of controversial herbicide glyphosate in Cheerios, Quaker Oats and other oat-based breakfast foods. The women contend that Bob’s uses labels such as “gluten free,” “wheat free” and “purity tested,” which lead consumers to falsely believe them to be healthy. Both U.S. and European regulators have concluded that glyphosate is safe, while that World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies it as a probable human carcinogen. Bayer subsidiary Monsanto, maker of the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup has faced numerous lawsuits over its product. A San Francisco jury recently found that exposure to Roundup caused the cancer of a school groundskeeper, and awarded him $289 million in damages. Shortly after that verdict, the Environmental Working Group released a report claiming that 31 of 45 oat-based food samples tested positive for glyphosate, and that levels exceeded safety limits of 160 parts per billion. EWG applies a more stringent standard than the 2 mg/kg/day of glyphosate standard used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the 1.1 mg per day standard used by the State of California. Frankel and Paracha are represented by Patricia Syverson of the San Diego law firm Bonnett, Fairbourn, Friedman & Balint. Stay tuned for more developments on this and related stories.
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Is Roundup by Monsanto Behind Skyrocketing Celiac Disease?
Jefferson Adams posted an article in Latest Research
Celiac.com 04/03/2014 - Since the introduction of glyphosate-based herbicides, like Roundup, by Monsanto in the 1970s, celiac disease levels have increased 400%. Could these herbicides play a significant role in driving the autoimmune condition that is celiac disease? A team of independent researchers claims that data show glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide, Roundup, to be the most important causal factor in epidemic rises in celiac disease levels. The researchers were independent Scientist Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff, with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their paper on the subject is called Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance, and it may be read in its entirety in Interdisciplinary Toxicology. Some interesting tidbits from their paper include: Celiac.com 04/03/2014 - Fish exposed to glyphosate develop digestive problems that are reminiscent of celiac disease. Celiac disease is associated with imbalances in gut bacteria that can be fully explained by the known effects of glyphosate on gut bacteria. Characteristics of celiac disease point to impairment in many cytochrome P450 enzymes, which are involved with detoxifying environmental toxins, activating vitamin D3, catabolizing vitamin A, and maintaining bile acid production and sulfate supplies to the gut. Glyphosate is known to inhibit cytochrome P450 enzymes. Deficiencies in iron, cobalt, molybdenum, copper and other rare metals associated with celiac disease can be attributed to glyphosate’s strong ability to chelate these elements. Deficiencies in tryptophan, tyrosine, methionine and selenomethionine associated with celiac disease match glyphosate’s known depletion of these amino acids. Celiac disease patients have an increased risk to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which has also been implicated in glyphosate exposure. Reproductive issues associated with celiac disease, such as infertility, miscarriages, and birth defects, can also be explained by glyphosate. Glyphosate residues in wheat and other crops are likely increasing recently due to the growing practice of crop desiccation just prior to the harvest. The researchers argue that the practice of “ripening” sugar cane with glyphosate may explain the recent surge in kidney failure among agricultural workers in Central America. They conclude with a plea to governments to reconsider policies regarding the safety of glyphosate residues in foods. The repost offers compelling data to support the claim, and certainly the report will receive a great deal of attention, but it remains to be seen how much provable evidence the report contains. There's an old saying that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claim that Monsanto's glyphosate-based Roundup is driving global rates of celiac disease is an extraordinary claim. As such, more than circumstantial evidence, however compelling, will be needed to prove this claim one way or the other. Doubtless, this is a story that merits close scrutiny. Stay tuned to see what specific evidence, if any, can be offered in support of the assertions about the data made by the researchers. Source: Interdiscip Toxicol. 2013; Vol. 6(4): 159–184. doi: 10.2478/intox-2013-0026- 12 comments
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Celiac.com 03/06/2014 - Celiac disease is associated with various nutritional and reproductive issues, and increased risk of thyroid disease, kidney failure and certain cancers. For reasons yet unknown, over the last forty years, celiac disease, gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome, have climbed to epidemic proportions. Is the rapid worldwide increase in celiac disease, gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome a result of the rising use of Monsanto's glyphosate herbicide, sold as Roundup? Yes, according to a new US peer-reviewed paper from Dr. Anthony Samsel and Dr. Stephanie Seneff. Their research indicates that glyphosate is the primary cause of an emerging epidemic of celiac disease, gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome. Their review appears in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Toxicology. According to Samsel and Seneff, glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide, Roundup, "is the most important causal factor" in the global epidemic of celiac disease, gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome. Stay tuned for more detailed summary of the nature, scope, methodology, and findings of the study itself. In the meantime, read the complete original review at sustainablepulse.com.
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