New study reveals how glyphosate in Monsanto’s Roundup inhibits natural detoxification in human cells
Friday, May 24, 2013 by: Lance Devon
(NaturalNews) The modern age of industrial agriculture and manufacturing has dumped heavy metals, carninogens, plastics, and pesticides into the environment at alarming rates. These toxins are showing up in most human tissue cells today. One distinct chemical may be trapping these toxins in human cells, limiting the human body’s ability to detoxify its own cells. In a new peer reviewed study, this sinister chemical, glyphosate, has been proven to inhibit the human cell’s ability to detoxify altogether. Glyphosate, found in Monsanto’s Roundup, is being deemed by publishers of the new study “one of the most dangerous chemicals” being unleashed into the environment today.
Download the PDF of the study here: http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416
How glyphosate destroys human cells
Glyphosate, most commonly found in conventional sugar, corn, soy and wheat products, throws off the cytochrome P450 gene pathway, inhibiting enzyme production in the body. CYP enzymes play a crucial role in detoxifying xenobiotics, which include drugs, carcinogens, and pesticides. By inhibiting this natural detoxification process, glyphosate systematically enhances the damaging effects of other environmental toxins that get in the body. This, in turn, disrupts homeostasis, increases inflammation, and leads to a slow deconstruction of the cellular system. Toxins build up in the gut over time and break down through the intestinal walls, infiltrating blood, and ultimately passing through the brain/blood barrier, damaging neurological function.
Important CYP enzymes that are affected include aromatase, the enzyme that converts androgen into estrogen, 21-Hydroxylase, which creates stress hormone cortisol, and aldosterone, which regulates blood pressure.
Getting to the gut
Even as evidence mounts, Monsanto asserts that glyphosate is not harmful to humans, citing that its mechanism of action in plants (the disruption of the shikimate pathway), is not present in humans. This is not true.
The shikimate pathway, which is involved in the synthesis of the essential aromatic amino acids phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan, is present in human gut bacteria, which has a direct relationship with the human body, aiding in digestion, synthesizing vitamins, detoxifying carcinogens, and participating in immune system function.
By inhibiting the body’s gut flora from performing its essential function in the human body, glyphosate heightens many health issues facing the Western world today.
These conditions include inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn’s disease, obesity, and even dementia and depression. Also, by restricting gut bacteria from absorbing nutrients, glyphosate voids the body of essential life-giving vitamins.
Depletion of serum tryptophan and its link to obesity
Glysophate’s damaging effects on gut bacteria lead to depleted sulfate supplies in the gut, resulting in inflammatory bowel disease. As more chemicals are absorbed from the environment, alterations in body chemistry actively promote weight gain by blocking nutrient absorption. By effecting CYP enzymes in the liver, obesity incidence is compounded, impairing the body’s ability to detoxify synthetics chemicals. Since serotonin is derived from tryptophan and acts an appetite suppressant, the depletion of tryptophan encourages overeating in the brain, leading to obesity.
In need of urgent, massive awakening
Authors of the new review point out that “glyphosate is likely to be pervasive in our food supply and may be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment.” Monsanto is already lashing back at these claims, calling this peer reviewed study, “bad science” and “another bogus study.” What Monsanto fails to is mention that most of the studies on glyphosate’s “safety” are conducted by Monsanto themselves, which is bias to the core.
The authors of this new study instead call out for more independent research to be done to validate their findings. They are concerned with glyphosate’s inhibition of the cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes in the body, which are hindering the body’s natural detoxification ability.
There is certainly a need for more empowering education on chemicals like glyphosate. There needs to be a kind of public mass awakening that correlates Monsanto’s Roundup with skull and crossbones. If anything, Americans have the right to know how their food was produced, engineered, and poisoned, and everyone should pitch in and stop using toxic glyphosate-laced Roundup at all costs.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org
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Comments
Cool beans ! So glad to hear it :)
And yes it does take time, as with anything worth doing right it is a long process and people must understand that it takes years for toxins to build up and do the damage they do. One cannot expect to be able to rid the body of them overnight. :)
Desertrose, I have been detoxifying my body and consuming organic and less contaminated food as much as possible for some time now. It has taken 6 -12 months for my body to show signs of correcting the imbalances (which have mainly shown in the form of eczema) due to an over acidic system.
For any one who is taking (or considering taking) this path (of detoxification) be aware that it will take time. The human body is an amazing piece of equipment that can usually handle a lot of abuse, but with consistent continued abuse over many years it will break down. To reverse this process and detoxify will take time for the body to readjust - please continue with this process for at least a period of 6 months and you will eventually see the benefits.
It is worth it - start now - start today - and clear your body of toxins which will eventually clear the pineal gland and open your mind to receive all sorts of new information (that is now available due to the recent opening of portals, etc) - which may be the key to individual evolution. Go for it!
Kim, Organics may no longer safe either. The USDA is trying to introduce substances that till now have been prohibited by the Organic regulations. They are determined to allow the encroachment of these corporations and their poisons. Not to mention make sure that there is no form of untainted food out there.
Codex Alimentarius is creeping in on us slowly and quietly. People just do not have the t ime nor the resources to keep up with all the things they are doing to make sure the food and water supplies are within their control. I will be posting the article on the USDA and Organics a bit later so you can see what I am referring to .
Peter, you are correct we are spiritual beings having a human experience. However, the full scope of our spiritual awareness and development is tied at least at first to our endocrine especially the pineal gland. For those who have already developed awareness and are in tune. The poisons in the food supply can be taken care of by regular and conscientious detoxifying. However, for those who have not had the opportunity to have awakened to the spiritual aspect before the damage to endocrine system had been done ........ Well, let's just say it is a rather difficult road to travel without a properly functioning system that would be considered the gateway or conduit if you will. Not impossible, but infinitely more difficult. Some of us are also more susceptible to these poisons than others. Kim would be an excellent example of that.
Therefore it is extremely important that people come to the realization that there are poisons being willfully and deliberately being added to our food supply for less than altruistic purposes as so many believe, or st least want to believe. Knowledge is power and it gives everyone an alternative. To be able to continue as they have until now or take measure to counteract the poisons that we have been assaulted with for so very long. :)
This is why all of humanity needs to seek out integrated/holistic M.D.'s who know how to detoxify the body with homeopathics and other holistic treatments. I do try to put myself on a detox program for 8 weeks on homeopathic remedies. The damage in my body has been done thanks to GMO wheat. I just wish I could convince my family to get off it. My neighbor last night was saying that we could grow our own heritage wheat as she says there is proof people like me with auto immune issues can eat that with no problems...
Peter good comment
Fantastic article - thanks "desertrose"!
This information is so important for human health - and although (as I believe) we are spirits having a human experience - a healthy human body (and mind) is still so important for us during this experience to become more aware of our total being by opening our receptors to this knowledge.