1 in 2 Children Will Have Autism by 2025, Warns Senior MIT Scientist
by Dave Mihalovic December 28, 2014 from PreventDisease Website
1 in 2 Children Will Have Autism by 2025, Warns Senior MIT Scientist
The overuse of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide on our food is causing glyphosate toxicity and it is now being considered as the single most important factor in development of autism and other chronic disease.
At a recent panel discussion about GMOs, a senior scientist has stated that one in two children will be autistic by 2025.
Glyphosate does induce disease and is a "textbook example of exogenous semiotic entropy."
Glyphosate inhibits detoxification
of xenobiotics and interferes with cytochrome P450 enzymes,
which enhances the damaging effects of other chemical residues
and toxins, and very slowly damages cellular systems in the body
through inflammation. Residues of glyphosate are found in sugar,
corn, soy, and wheat, some of the main components of the Western
diet.
On the same gene, Cytochrome P450, is the
Glutathione pathway implicated in Autism and vaccine injury.
In recent years she has concentrated on the relationship between nutrition and health, tackling such topics as Alzheimer's, autism, and cardiovascular diseases, as well as the impact of nutritional deficiencies and environmental toxins on human health.
She noted that the side effects of autism closely mimic those of glyphosate toxicity, and presented data showing a remarkably consistent correlation between the use of Roundup on crops (and the creation of Roundup-ready GMO crop seeds) with rising rates of autism.
Children with autism have biomarkers indicative of excessive glyphosate, including,
Even low levels of one of the
most widely used pesticides in the world, chlorpyrifos,
frequently applied to crops of cotton, corn, almonds, and fruit
trees including oranges and apples, leads to long-term,
potentially irreversible changes in the brain structure of the
child.
One study,
published in the journal
Ecotoxicology,
found that glyphosate is toxic to water fleas (Daphnia magna) at
minuscule levels that are well within the levels expected to be
found in the environment.
Oilseed crops such as canola, soy,
sunflower, flax and peanuts can now contain up to 40,000 parts
per billion (ppb) glyphosate which is almost 60 times the
minimum containment level for drinking water which even the EPA
admits causes organ damage and reproductive effects.
Wheat is often sprayed with Roundup just prior to being harvested, which means that all non-organic bread and wheat products would also be sources of glyphosate toxicity. The amount of glyphosate in each product may not be large, but the cumulative effect (especially with as much processed food as Americans eat) could be devastating.
A recent study shows that
pregnant women living near farms where pesticides are applied
have a 60% increased risk of children having an autism spectrum
disorder.
The USDA added, however, that due to "cost concerns," it did not test for residues of glyphosate.
Let's repeat that:
"Cost concerns"?
How absurd, unless they mean it will cost them too much in terms of the special relationship between the USDA and Monsanto.
You may recall the revolving door between Monsanto and the federal government, with agency officials becoming high-paying executives and vice versa! Money, power, prestige: it's all there.
Monsanto and the USDA love to
scratch each others' backs. Clearly this omission was
purposeful.
Monsanto says humans don't have this shikimate pathway, so it's perfectly safe.
Dr. Seneff points out, however, that our gut bacteria do have this pathway, and that's crucial because these bacteria supply our body with crucial amino acids.
Roundup thus,
... and much more.
Even worse, she notes, additional chemicals in Roundup are untested because they're classified as "inert," yet according to a 2014 study in BioMed Research International, these chemicals are capable of amplifying the toxic effects of Roundup hundreds of times over.
Glyphosate is present in unusually high quantities in the breast milk of American mothers, at anywhere from 760 to 1,600 times the allowable limits in European drinking water.
Urine testing shows Americans have ten times the glyphosate accumulation as Europeans.
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