Roundup: A Causal Link?
Delivered April 21, 2020. Contributor: Heather B.
Goals
To prove or disprove a causal link between the worldwide introduction and use of Roundup (glyphosate) and the rise of animal-human virus transmission and a causal relationship between the introduction and use of Roundup worldwide and the rise of the modern pandemic.
Early Findings
Our research to prove or disprove that there is a causal link between the worldwide introduction and use of Roundup (glyphosate) and the rise of animal-human virus transmission and a causal relationship between the introduction and use of Roundup worldwide and the rise of the modern pandemic revealed insights. Here are the key pieces of information we found:
Roundup (Glyphosate): A Causal Link in the Rise of Virus Transmission and Pandemics?
- However, another study came to the opposite conclusion by asserting that glyphosate and Roundup are likely to increase the activity of the detoxifying CYP450 enzyme system. This study also found that the conclusion that there is a causal link between prion diseases and Roundup/glyphosate is speculative since the effects of glyphosate on metal micronutrient homeostasis have never been characterized, and the chelation of Mn by glyphosate would actually be protective against rather than a causative agent of prion diseases.
- The conflicting scientific studies of the toxicity of Roundup and glyphosate do not definitively prove that there is a causal link between its worldwide introduction and the rise of animal-human virus transmission, nor do they definitively prove that there is a causal relationship between its worldwide introduction and the rise of the modern pandemic.
- However, a review of another scientific study found that, while still not proving a causal link or relationship between Roundup and glyphosate to the rise of animal-human virus transmission or the modern pandemic, there is a causal link to a risk of cancer in humans because of the potential additive estrogenicity and a causal link to also be a source of genotoxicity, cytotoxicity, and reproductive toxicity.
- Another most recent source from this month confirmed that there is still much debate about the toxicity of Roundup and glyphosate, even regarding a causal link to cancer and other health concerns such as endocrine disruption, liver disease, birth defects, reproductive diseases, killing beneficial gut bacteria, damage to DNA in human embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells, increases in obesity, and kidney diseases.
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