Bend chiropractor\u00a0 Dr Scott Olson agrees with Hippocrates that medicine should be your food!!\u00a0 Here is an excellent article on why giving up or greatly reducing you grain exposure is so important to your health.\u00a0 I recently had an 85 year old patient come over after working out at the gym and said “I took your advice and I have tons more energy.\u00a0 I feel 75 again”\u00a0 LOL we should all be so lucky.\u00a0 Get started now and tell me your success.<\/p>\n

Glyphosate: Not JUST a carcinogen\u00a0\u00a0 By DR William Davis MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One of the most potentially harmful aspects of genetically-modified crops, or GMOs, are that such crops are often engineered to be resistant to an herbicide. A farmer therefore can spray the herbicide to kill weeds, while the GM crop plant survives. But it means that the plant now has herbicide residues in it. So GMO crops pose a double-whammy: the crop itself with new genetically-programmed components, especially proteins, coupled with an herbicide.<\/p>\n

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Glyphosate is the most widely applied herbicide in the world, in part because GM corn and soy have been engineered to be glyphosate-resistant. So much glysphosate is being used in modern agriculture that EcoWatch<\/a> tallied up the total of 2.6 billion pounds having been sprayed on crops in the 20 years between 1992 and 2012. Glyphosate is also used as an herbicide and dessicant in other agricultural applications outside of GM crops, though grains and soy carry the highest levels<\/a> of glyphosate residues. If livestock such as cows and chickens are fed glyphosate-containing feed, glyphosate residues can be found in meat, eggs, and dairy products. And, to make matters even worse, glysphosate, because of its widespread, high-volume application, is now found in drinking water <\/a>throughout the U.S.<\/p>\n

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And, given the bulk of animal and human data, there is no remaining doubt: glyphosate is carcinogenic<\/a>, increasing risk for non-Hodgkin\u2019s lympnhoma, B-cell lymphoma, and multiple myeloma, in particular. The Seralini study<\/a> that showed a dramatic increase in breast cancer from glyphosate is also worrisome. (This was the study that was mysteriously retracted by the publishing journal without explanation, but has been rereleased.) But there\u2019s more to the glyphosate story.<\/p>\n

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There is growing suspicion that glyphosate can act as an antimicrobial or antibiotic<\/strong>. (Monsanto even has a patent<\/a> for glyphosate as an antimicrobial.) Animal model data<\/a> demonstrate that glyphosate selectively kills beneficial bacteria, such as Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium, Bacillus badius, Bifidobacterium adolescentis and Lactobacillus species, while allowing the proliferation of undesirable, even disease-causing, species such as Salmonella enteritidis, Salmonella gallinarum, Salmonella typhimurium, Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium botulinum.<\/p>\n

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Lactic acid producing bacteria that have beneficial effects, such as lactobacilli, lactococci, and enterococci, generate bacteriocins, or factors that suppress growth of undesirable bacterial species. Specifically, the bacteriocins produced by lactic acid producing bacteria help keep Clostridium species at bay, such as C. difficile that often emerges after antibiotics are prescribed. (Farmers in Europe are even seeing an increase in botulism in livestock due to emergence of Clostridium botulinum that is suspected to be due to glyphosate.)<\/a> This selective effect of glyphosate, killing off lactic acid producing bacteria while leaving undesirable species untouched, may be one of the ways by which humans develop dysbiosis, or disordered growth of bowel flora, that can cause abdominal distress, irritable bowel syndrome, the intestinal \u201cleakiness\u201d that adds to risk for autuoimmune diseases, and other conditions.<\/p>\n

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In food, glyphosate persists for extended periods, is not removed by rinsing with water, and is resistant to cooking temperatures. Some forms of processing can even concentrate glyphosate residues, such as processing of wheat bran. There are limited data on the concentration of glyphosate in food, but the UK government has performed some studies in wheat products:<\/p>\n

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