Note: steempeak says this post is a six minute read. I promise I've tried my hardest to make it worth your time. I'll be brief to be timely, and I'll develop deeper ideas in conversation below.

JURY AWARDS COUPLE $2 BILLION IN GLYPHOSATE CANCER TRIAL

This is a hot topic lately, and for good reason. This issue is relevant to people that eat food and drink water. If that's not you, feel free to disregard this post.

Particular thanks to @jennislay for her inspiring post this morning, welcoming conventional farmers and offering her aid and advice in converting to a more natural system and remediating the damages from past. GO GIVE HER SOME BIG LOVE! She deserves it!

In the @naturalmedicine discord server (invite link at the bottom), @viking-ventures asked:

Is there any way to detox that stuff (glyphosate) out of the body?

What a pertinent question!

Of course, that sent me into a frenzy. I don't know if my thumbs have ever typed so fast. Our beloved @artemislives reminded me how momentary those messages will be, and how easily buried in conversation. She suggested I make a post, and here I am.

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Glyphosate, and what you can do

This is a rabbit hole I've been exploring for a while. There's a lot to it, and I'll share everything I effectively can. The bottom line is that you can help, you can learn, you can make a difference, and you can protect yourself! Be empowered!

First, it's important to know what glyphosate is and what it does. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, the most used herbicide in the world. This article focuses on that ingredient, not other dangerous poisons commonly used in food production.

It is an antibiotic, a chelator, a dessicant, and a shitty herbicide. When I spoke with my holistic nutritionist, I was shocked when she told me that last bit. What helps it along are the petroleum byproducts that are not listed because they are inactive ingredients. Ask anyone what happens when they pour petroleum products on plants.

• The antibiotic effects of glyphosate kill soil microorganisms.

• The chelative effects target and bind up nutrients in the soil.

• The dessicant effect dries the soil out.

What is soil without microorganisms, nutrients, and moisture? That soil cannot grow good nourishing food. Soil health is OUR health. Microorganisms, minerals, and water are essential to us, not just to the plants and animals we eat.

Glyphosate replaces glycine in our bodies.

Glycine is considered among the most important amino acids for the body. It exerts widespread influence over our bodies’ systems, structure, and general health, including cardiovascular, cognitive, and metabolic health... As an amino acid, glycine works as a protein builder in the body. In particular, glycine enables the production of collagen, a protein that is an essential component of muscles, tendon, skin, and bones. (Source)

In the most recent and popular cases, glyphosate has been linked to cancer. In less known studies, it has been linked to autism, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's (Source) to name a few. In short, most health issues in the US can be linked to glyphosate. That podcast is an excellent place to start your own learning journey on this subject, and it's only half an hour long. Perfect for your commute!

To counteract it's effects, the most effective approach I've heard or found is bone stock. It is absolutely crucial that it be made with the bones of animals that are raised responsibly, organically, and on pasture. You can't buy this at the store, but be encouraged! You can get it affordably at your local farmer's market, or easily raise it yourself if you're really dedicated. I think my stock bones cost like six bucks, and last me about a week and a half with a glass of stock every day or two. And making the stock itself is simple.

Yum! I do it even simpler than that, and will give you a recipe in comments if you'd like.

The reason for the effectiveness of bone stock is the concentration of glycine and collagen! In conventionally raised animals, their feed is mostly GMO crops like corn and soy, which are genetically modified to withstand high doses of glyphosate, and grains, which are the biggest source of dietary glyphosate (despite being non GMO) due to it's use as a dessicant just days before harvest. Making your stock from industry animals will merely concentrate the glyphosate into something you're wanting to use to help counteract it.

Glyphosate does not wash off. Because of the way it works, it is inside the foods that it is applied to, and rinsing or peeling your produce won't get it off. That's simply not how it works.

Some studies have shown glyphosate levels in organic foods are nearly the same as in conventional crops. The wickedness of this compound is becoming more apparent the more we learn. The reason for it's pervasiveness is that it is in our water and that it is very difficult to remove from soil.

I suspect a valuable resource in remediation will be fungi, but that is just speculation based on listening to talks with Paul Stamets, Peter McCoy, and other mycologists. If we want to recover from this industrial disease, soil regeneration is going to be key moving forward. I'd like to see amateur mycologists doing some work here decentralizing the remediation efforts to take strain off of larger centralized companies like Paul's company Fungi Perfecti. I'm hopeful and encouraged, and I'm working towards being involved in this aspect myself.

For a very extensive read on glyphosate that contains eighty nine annotated sources and studies, as well as a more extensive list of what you can do to protect yourself, this paper is hard to beat.

If you found this post informative, upvotes are cool, but resteems are prime with this topic. We need more people exposed to this information, so please, please share!

Be blessed.
Be fruitful.
Stay relevant.

Nate.

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