Weed Killer and Autism or ADHD
We all know that glyphosate and other herbicides are sprayed on almost all of our commercial grains, legumes and seed oil crops to kill the plants all at once, thus making the processing much easier.
These desiccants, as they are called, are found in trace amounts in our commercial grains and seed oils as well as legumes.
That means in our breads, flours, crackers, cookies, cakes and snack foods that are not labelled organic will contain glyphosate or another herbicide.
You know, pretty much all of the food found on the inside aisles of our grocery stores.
A March 2023 paper found in the peer reviewed journal Plants measured the amounts of glyphosate residues found in grains that had been treated with glyphosate as a “pre-harvest” (desiccant) in Central Lithuania (1).
The study found that glyphosate residues were found in higher concentrations in wheat bran and oilseed rape meal and that these residues could be found a year after harvest.
A study in Canada found 30 percent of food samples in Canada contained glyphosate.
These results correlate with another recent study out of Canada (Jan 2023), whereby the urine of pregnant women in their first trimester were tested for glyphosate and AMPA (the metabolite of glyphosate).
Nearly 75 percent of women had detectable concentrations of glyphosate and AMPA in their urine. The study authors observed a dose-response relationship between consumption of whole grain bread and higher urinary glyphosate concentrations.
This is not only worrying, it is unacceptable!
Another March 2023 peer reviewed study was published in Birth Defects which demonstrates that mice fed glyphosate throughout the pregnancy had babies that had significant behavioral abnormalities, as well as neuroinflammation.
Behavior behavioral changes of the baby mice included anxiety and hyperactivity. Furthermore, the mouse brains had detectable neuroinflammation soon after birth.
A 2023 PNAS paper clearly demonstrates neuroinflammation is involved in Austism (ASD) in humans (4).
Yet another 2023 paper makes the case for the involvement of neuroinflammation in Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (5).
Let’s review.
(1) Grains treated with glyphosate had measurable levels of residue and that residue did not decrease after a year of storage. Furthermore, 30 percent of foods tested in Canada have measurable levels of Glyphosate.
(2) Nearly 75 percent of Canadian women in their first trimester of pregnancy had detectable concentrations of glyphosate in their urine. The more whole wheat grains in the diet, the higher the levels of glyphosate.
(3) Exposure to glyphosate during mice intrauterine development induces hyperactive and anxious behavior, as well as measurable levels of neuroinflammatory markers.
(4) Neuroinflammation can be measured in the ASD temporal cortex in humans (at autopsy).
(5) There appears to be a link between Neuroinflammation and ADHD.
t doesn’t not take a rocket scientist to draw the conclusion that the significant increases in autism and ADHD in children over the past two decades could very well be linked to the use of glyphosate as a drying agent in our grain, legume and seed oil crops.
Finally, if glyphosate is causative, this is all very preventable. A risk benefit analysis should convince anyone planning a family or with children to eat clean and organic as much as possible. Buy organic flours, grains, oils (please don’t use canola oil ever), and legumes.
Buy organic grain products (bread, crackers, cookies). Consider baking your own. If you can’t buy these items locally, shop online.
The use of herbicides in other countries is a common practice. Be careful when buying foods from other countries, particularly those without a strong regulatory agency monitoring food production.
As an aside, one of the other desiccants used in the USA and around the world is diquat (sold as REGLONE®). Diquat is used as a non-selective herbicide for use as a desiccant in barley, green beans, lentils, peas and soy beans.
Although less studied or publicized than glyphosate, a pubmed search found a number of papers which document that chronic, low level exposure is associated with reproductive toxicity, as well as gut inflammation (6, 7, 8) and other concerning health issues.
As a note, I have only highlighted a select few of the publications showing the dangers of chronic, low level ingestion of chemical desiccants found in our food supply. To continue searching, please go to pubmed.gov
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