14/08/2021
Nature is the answer.
52% of kids in the US are suffering from a disease before age 17 because they do not have a healthy gut.
Zac Bush is a legend and his message is gold for living a healthy lifestyle.
The rates of chronic and autoimmune diseases have skyrocketed over the past 25 years. Why?
While functional medicine looks at the root causes of disease, ZACH BUSH MD takes it a step further. Zach combines expertise in the microbiome, nutrition, endocrinology, soil ecology and intensive conventional farming practices to weave together a holistic understanding of the systems that underwrite our disease epidemic.
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Round-Up, a herbicide that is sprayed on 90% of soybeans and 70% of corn in the United States. Cash crops like corn have been engineered to be “round-up ready.” In other words, they have been genetically modified to be resistant to round-up which is now sprayed indiscriminately on fields.
Here, Commune podcast host Jeff Krasno and Zach discuss how glyphosate has numerous detrimental impacts, among them:
1) Glyphosate is a chelator which prohibits critical minerals from getting to the plant.
2) It destabilizes the enzyme pathway in the plants that produces alkaloids and essential amino acids.
3) It breaks down the tight junctions in our gut lining which leads to intestinal permeability (leaky gut). In turn, bacteria and toxins enter our bloodstream triggering the chronic inflammation that sits behind most chronic disease.
The use of this chemical herbicide is undermining human health and immunity while also stripping farmers of their ability to control their own inputs.
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