Investigation on Roundup - glyphosate at VitaminDWiki

This is an attempt to see if Roundup/Glyphosate causes problems with Vitamin D - started May 2013

Hypothesis: Glyphosate ==> disrupt enzyme ==> one of the causes of vitamin D reduction

Reasons to think that the hypothesis is correct

1. Glyphosate ==> disrupt enzyme: conclusion of one study (would really like more . . )

2. In the past 40 years that Glyphosate has been increasing, vitamin D has been decreasing.

3. The close association between increased use of Glyphosate and increased diseases that are associated with low levels of vitamin D - such as Autism

   Looking for data to support or refute the hypothesis

1) There are only a few countries with total bans on GMO foods for 10 years

Have those countries had fewer problems with low levels of vitamin D and associated diseases?

Note: I believe that many things reduce vitamin D besides Glyphosate

• examples include latitude, skin color, season, air pollution, being indoors, etc. http://is.gd/lowvitamind

So I do not expect to see a smoking gun, that is, lots more vitamin D in the countries which have banned GMO foods.

2) Cattle that have been fattened (last 3 months of their lives) on corn (with Glyphosate) seem to have very low levels of vitamin D in the meat

How much vitamin D is in the meat of organic cattle?

Suspect that it should be similar to what cattle had 80 years ago. (1000 IU per kg??)

How much vitamin D is in the cattle meat in the countries which ban GMO foods

This assumes that the GMO ban applies to animal feed as well as human food

It's often marketed as “safe” because humans don’t have the same enzyme pathways it targets in plants.
However, our gut bacteria do have this pathway, so it can affect the gut microbiome."

The category page = Glyphosate and Vitamin D - many studies

20 most-visited pages in the Glyphosate category in VitaminDWiki

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99% of People in France Contaminated With Glyphosate, Study Finds

• "In one of the largest studies on glyphosate contamination in a human population, the world’s most used weedkiller was found in more than 99% of the general public in France, with a total of more than 6,800 urine samples having been tested."

  📄 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki

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See also VitaminDWiki

• background on Roundup and Glyphosate on VitaminDWiki is at http://is.gd/roundupd
  • Which includes a PDF summary of scientific studies

• Monsanto banned from EU parliament (they refused to respond to Glosophate safety questions) – Oct 2017

• Off topic: Roundup may be source of many medical problem increases - April 2013

• Off topic – Roundup found to be 125X more toxic than its active ingredient (glyphosate) - April 2014

• GMO soybeans have high levels of glyphosate – June 2014

Notes from Google Searching May 16, 2013

Recent (2012) http://current.com/groups/news-blog/93975745_peru-bans-genetically-modified-foods-as-us-lags.htm

Peru

Russia suspended imports of Monsanto's GMO corn

France also has a temporary ban on corn.

Ireland has banned the growing of GMO crops since 2009.

http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/03/egypts-battle-with-gm-crops-and-food-poverty/

Egypt also banned the cultivation of GMO crops in 2010, but may not have carried through

http://www.examiner.com/article/what-countries-have-banned-gmo-crops

• Tasmania has a moratorium on them until November 2014

• Japan: The Japanese people are staunchly opposed to genetically modified crops, and no GM seeds are planted in the country.

• New Zealand: No GM foods are grown in the country.

• Germany: There is a ban on the cultivation or sale of GMO maize.

• Ireland: All GM crops were banned from cultivation in 2009, and there is a voluntary labeling system for foods containing GM foods to be identified as such.

• Austria, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, and Luxembourg: There are bans on the cultivation and sale of GMOs.

• France: Monsanto's MON810 GM corn had been approved, but its cultivation was forbidden in 2008.

• Switzerland : The country banned all GM crops, animals, and plants on its fields and farms in a public referendum in 2005, extended through 2013.

http://www.ehow.com/info8527757countries-banned-gmo-foods.html

• Both Sri Lanka and Thailand had bans on imported GMOs as early as 2001,

• Saudi Arabia has banned the growing of GMO foods and the importing of GMO wheat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RegulationofgeneticallymodifiedorganismsintheEuropeanUnion EU mostly recent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneticallymodifiedfood_controversies

http://www.gmo-free-regions.org/gmo-free-regions/maps.html Europe?

http://www.examiner.com/slideshow/gmos-glyphosate-and-neurological-disorders

Toxic shock: California allows up to one thousand times more glyphosate in drinking water than needed to cause breast cancer in women. Natural News June 2013

California allows 1,000 parts per billion of glyphosate in drinking water

Glyphosate is the new DDT

Glyphosate detected in feeding tubes given to babies and children with cancer Natural News Jan 2015

30% of Pediasure, a supposed "nutritional" drink given to ill children in the pediatric unit, had 75 parts per billion (ppb) of Glyphosate

Glyphosate destroys gut bacteria in chickens at 0.1 ppb: A 750 X lower dose than what the babies were getting

• Note: Adults in ICUs get only 200 IU of vitamin D per day. Wonder how much vitamin D infants get, if any

Roundup adjuvants are 9,661 times more toxic to human cells than the active ingredient glyphosate Natural News April 2019

• "In a 2013 study published in Biomedical Research International, researchers found that some Roundup additives are almost 10,000 times more toxic (9,661 times, to be exact) to human cells than glyphosate."

  • Biomed Res Int. 📄 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki

• "UN blockbuster report: “catastrophic” use of pesticides causes up to 41 million adverse reactions and 200,000 deaths globally every year."

Powerful chart of the increase in Autism and increase in GMO food

from http://www.examiner.com/article/data-show-correlations-between-increase-neurological-diseases-and-gmos

See also VitaminDWiki

• Investigation on Roundup - glyphosate at VitaminDWiki

BREAKING: FBI Calls Destruction of GMO Sugar Beets in Oregon 'Economic Sabotage'

GreenMedInfo June 2013 shows the revolving door exchange of people between the US Govt and Monsanto

Natural News June 2013 had the following charts

Documentation of Roundup and birth defects goes back 30 years

by Earth opensource on Green Medical Information, July 2013

How Genetically Engineered Foods Will Be Eradicated Mercola Sept 2013

The tipping point of consumer rejection of genetically engineered foods in the US is almost here.

Whole Foods announced when a product becomes verified as Non-GMO or GMO-free, sales leap by 15-30%

The March Against Monsanto in 52 countries by more than two million people.

1.7 million people watched Jeffrey Smith’s film “Genetic Roulette” in 2012

Includes recent video by Jeffrey Smith from Responsible Technology

Toxic glyphosate (Roundup) found to be harming dairy cows Natural News, Sept 2013

• 100% of the cows tested in Denmark had glyphosate in their urine
  • "The Co and Mn levels were much too low in all animals for proper function and immune response (in comparison with reference levels)," added the researchers. "This is a result of the strong chelating effect of glyphosate, especially in chelating Co and Mn."
  • PDF of the study is attached at the bottom of this page

Seneff presentation on Glyphosate - Tampa 2014

📄 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki.

A few charts

Dr. Nancy Swanson on Glyphosate

📄 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki.

A few of her slides

Dr. Nancy Swanson's peer-reviewed publication on Glyphosate and Health Nov 2014

📄 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki.

Hypertension on VitaminDWiki has a chart of associations with Glyphosate

Moms across America have a lot of GMO/Glyphosate

Along with related information on Allergies, Autism, Autoimmune, Asthma

They also have data

Test Glyphosate in Urine or Water

Discount if you are a member of Moms Across America, above

Bayer has a similar herbicide with similar problems: Glufosinate

• http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Glufosinate Wikipedia
  • Works on GMO plants: It interferes with the biosynthetic pathway of the amino acid glutamine and with ammonia detoxification.
  • GMO canola, cotton, soybean, and maize are currently on the market
  • It has been used in pre-harvest crop desiccation on non-GMO plants - like wheat

Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance - 2013

Interdiscip Toxicol. Dec 2013; 6(4): 159–184. Dec 2013. doi: 10.2478/intox-2013-0026

Anthony Samsel1 and Stephanie Seneff

📄 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki.

GMO Apples approved by USDA Feb 2015

GMOs invade fruit industry: Apples, pears, cherries and peaches to all become unlabeled GMO Natural News and others.

Uses gene silencing is used to turn down the expression of polyphenol oxidase (PPO), thus preventing the fruit from browning.- Wikipedia

USDA approved after only looking into the possibility that GMO apples might contaminate other plants

UDSA did not, apparently, consider that

1. GMO apples might have some harm to humans

2. GMO apples might be less able to deal with pests ( the deleted browning response)

Good news - retailers afraid consumers will reject all of their products if they feel they might contain GMO - 2015

• East Coast apple packer feels that consumers will reject the Artic Apple

• GMO potatoes blocked by McDonalds which decided consumers would avoid all french fries

• GMO tomatoes (Flavr Savr) blocked in June 2013

I noticed that Tofu sold in my local grocery store is all GMO-free

I look forward to buying tortillas and other wheat products marked as being GMO-free

GMO Soybeans may have huge amounts of Formaldehyde

From Game-Changing Study: GMO Soy Accumulates Carcinogenic Formaldehyde July 2015

Based on a very detailed simulation of stressed soy plants - no apparent actual testing to confirm

1. 5X more likely to have severe menstrual pain if fed soymilk as an infant (soy has Formaldehyde and Glyphosate)

Soy-based infant formula feeding and menstrual pain in a cohort of women aged 23–35 years - Nov 2018,

https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dey303 free PDF

GMO crops totally banned in Russia... Sept 2015

"share of GMO in the Russian food industry has declined from 12 percent to just 0.01 percent over the past 10 years."

Large-dose anti-oxidants, like Vitamin C, might cancel the effects of Glyphosate - Dec 2018

Promising evidence: How to REDUCE the threat of pesticides and Roundup toxicity Naural Health 365

Glyphosate depletes glutathione, and anti-oxidants like Vitamin C restore glutathione.

• Note Vitamin D increases Glutathione (a great antioxidant) which fights COVID