Round Up Glyphosates and GMO on Gut Bacteria

[3bmom]

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/02/04/roundup-glyphosate-toxicity.aspx?e_cid=20140204Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20140204Z1&et_cid=DM38971&et_rid=417896252

 

Glyphhosate kills weeds by chelating (holding ) on to minerals till the plant dies. This is due to the disruption of the Shikamate Pathway. Humans don't have this pathway but our gut bacteria does. So if our gut bacteria is killed off, where does that leave our immune system?

[SSS]

Your information on this is fascinating (and horrific.)

Thank you for sharing--

[rowingmom]

Thanks. I second sss. Horrific!

[rowingmom]

Perhaps gluten intolerance is not to blame for bowel inflammation, but the high doses of Roundup used on wheat.

 

Another Samsel/Seneff paper:

 

Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance

 

http://nhrighttoknowgmo.org/BreakingNews/Glyphosate_II_Samsel-Seneff.pdf

 

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.

[3bmom]

I agree! Met with an expert on Glyphosate over the weekend. Didn't know they use pesticides to speed drying times!

 

Most important thing I learned in addition to chelation of Magnesium in our bodies it has a profound effect on chelating zinc. They believe this causes zinc deficiency in humans and is responsible for the difficulty in conceiving since zinc strengthens sperm. They question the drop in teenage pregnancies is more likely due to pesticides than abstinence.

 

I thought I read somewhere, maybe here that low zinc may cause Anorexia and OCD.

 

Any thoughts?

[rowingmom]

From the above mentioned paper:

 

Table 2. Illustration of the myriad ways in which glyphosate can be linked to celiac disease or its associated pathologies.

 

Disruption of gut bacteria

Gfect Dysfunction Consequences

reduced Bifidobacteria - impaired gluten breakdown – transglutaminase antibodies

reduced Lactobacillus - impaired phytase breakdown

reduced selenoproteins

metal chelation

autoimmune thyroid disease

anaerobic E. coli - indole toxicity - kidney failure

C. diff overgrowth - p-Cresol toxicity - kidney failure

Desulfovibrio overgrowth - hydrogen sulfide gas - nflammation

 

Transition metal chelation

Glyphosate Effect Dysfunction Consequences

cobalt deficiency cobalamin deficiency

reduced methionine

elevated homocysteine

neurodegenerative diseases

impaired protein synthesis

heart disease

molybdenum deficiency inhibited sulfite oxidase

inhibited xanthine oxidase

impaired sulfate supply

DNA damage/cancer

teratogenesis

megaloblastic anemia

iron deficiency anemia

 

CYP enzyme inhibition

Glyphosate Impairment Dysfunction Consequences

vitamin D3 inactivation impaired calcium metabolism osteoporosis; cancer risk

retinoic acid catabolism suppressed transglutaminase teratogenesis

bile acid synthesis impaired fat metabolism

impaired sulfate supply

gall bladder disease

pancreatitis

xenobiotic detoxification increased toxin sensitivity

impaired indole breakdown

liver disease

macrocytic anemia

kidney failure

nitrate reductase venous constriction venous thrombosis

 

Shikimate pathway suppression

Glyphosate Effect Dysfunction Consequences

tryptophan deficiency impaired serotonin supply

hypersensitive receptors

depression

nausea, diarrhea

Edited February 25, 2014 by rowingmom

[rowingmom]

How RoundUp Poisoned my Nature Reserve, Rosemary Mason MB ChB FRCA, New South Wales.

 

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/How_Roundup_Poisoned_My_Nature_Reserve.php

 

Following the recommendations by Monsanto, farmers had been using glyphosate as herbicide throughout the crop growth cycle; and at the end they were also desiccating (drying) or ripening crops with glyphosate sprayed about 7-10 days before harvest [7]. So, some of us in Europe are receiving glyphosate residues in all our non-organic staple foods, such as bread, cereals, potatoes, pasta, pulses, rice, sugar, beer, whisky, etc.[6] and many foods from the US made from corn or soya (mostly GM).

 

Not only that, a collusion between UK’s PRiF, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and Germany as Rapporteur Nation for European Union with Monsanto led to a 100-fold increase in the permitted glyphosate levels in lentils “In order to accommodate the authorized desiccation use of glyphosate on lentils in the United States and Canada” without consultation with European Parliament or the public (see Box 2).

 

When humans ingest glyphosate residues in staple foods, or animals get them in GM feed, beneficial bacteria are continually being destroyed causing failure of absorption of nutrients and minerals. Worse yet, the toxic bacteria on the other hand can thrive.

We learned later from colleagues in the US that Monsanto has a total of four patents filed on the chemical. They bought it as a chelator of heavy metals (used for cleaning boilers by ‘grabbing’ minerals) [10] and then marketed it as herbicide [11]. In addition they filed a patent on it as an antibiotic in 2002 [12] and as an antiprotozoal against malaria in 2003 [13]. Samsel & Seneff subsequently published another paper on the chemical: Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: celiac sprue and gluten intolerance [14].

Analysis in local tap water in August 2014 revealed a 10-fold increase since August 2013; from 30 ppt to 300 ppt. If Roundup® continues to be sprayed in the same quantities (whatever they are), this area of South Wales will become a biological desert. At the same time, Glyphosate-resistant Japanese knotweed has appeared in August 2014, regrown after spraying early in 2014.

 

On 9 July 2014, ISIS circulated Scandal of Glyphosate Re-assessment in Europe (SiS 63) [31], revealing that the German Rapporteur Member State’s Federal Institute of Risk Assessment (BfR) and its federal agency partners did not actually review the published toxicology studies, but relied on a summary provided to them by the Glyphosate Task Force (GTF), a consortium consisting of Monsanto and chemical companies all over Europe, including Syngenta UK and Dow Italy, with an odd one from Taiwan. GTF describes itself as [32] “a consortium of companies joining resources and efforts in order to renew the European glyphosate registration with a joint submission.” Hence Monsanto and other companies who stood to gain from selling glyphosate herbicides were given free rein to pronounce glyphosate effectively even safer than before [33], hence the increase in Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) recommended in the RAR.

 

Removing these chemicals from our children's food can only help. Removing them from the water may be problematic.

Edited September 19, 2014 by rowingmom