Unstoppable What else do you need to understand that glyphosate, GMOs and drugs have consequences for our bodies?
Regarding all the controversies due to the decisions of the Constitutional Court to prohibit spraying with glyphosate and whose detractors still think that a measure that has never worked to reduce the cultivation and even less the consumption of cocaine, will now have an effect at the expense of making the community sick.
According to the newspaper El País, this decision is “inconsistent” since, among other things, there are no studies in Colombia that show the relationship between patients with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and glyphosate. ( 1 )
An interview conducted by Dr. Joseph Mercola with Mrs. Zen Honeycutt, founder of the organization Moms across America and author of the book Unstoppable: Transforming Sickness and Struggle Into Triumph, Empowerment and Celebration of Community, has recently been published in North America.
In it, he identifies and explains the dangers of the foods we have access to, how to navigate the diet established and promoted by the United States, and how to become an agent of change.
The driving force behind this activist movement was the struggle the Honeycutts had to face at home trying to uncover the origins of their children's many ailments, including allergies, autoimmune problems and autism symptoms.
The three children had 19, 20, and 22 food allergies (respectively), while she and her husband had none. Thanks to some scientists who began to spread the word, Zen Honeycutt was able to learn about glyphosate and how this poison, used in many foods, whether genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or not, destroys the colon microbiome contributing to a host of health problems.
Glyphosate is an active chemical ingredient present in the product Roundup, which 80% of genetically modified seeds can tolerate and which is sprayed on all types of plants to dry them out. So it is found in most foods.
“Children are getting sick: 1 in 2 children has a chronic disease; 1 in 2 boys and 1 in 3 girls are expected to develop cancer in North America today,” she says, which is what motivated Honeycutt to raise awareness about GMOs and toxic chemicals in today’s food.
It should be noted that the studies carried out by Monsanto (now Bayer) are financed by the company itself. But there are independent studies that say very different things:
Study not conducted in Colombia found that glyphosate herbicides are carcinogenic: The Lancet Oncology ( 2 ), a study that includes samples taken in 5 different regions of Colombia and the genotoxic risk in Colombian farmers.
Glyphosate has been shown to be a DNA mutagen, a chelating agent (removing part or all) of important minerals such as manganese: Surgical Neurology International ( 3 )
Experiments have shown that glyphosate is an endocrine disruptor, causing hormonal and genetic alterations ( 4 ), ( 5 ), ( 6 ) and linked to celiac disease ( 7 ), among others.
As Honeycutt notes, while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that glyphosate is not carcinogenic, it should be noted that this conclusion was generated based on scientific studies funded by the chemical industry and not on independent scientific studies. In fact, thanks to some members of the advisory panel, the EPA's decision has been evaluated, as the agency violated its own policies by disregarding and minimizing the importance of other studies that did link glyphosate to cancer. ( 8 )
What can be done?
One of the policies of Mothers of America is not only to expose the problem but to offer an alternative, and this is good for all of us.
Eat organic foods
Mrs. Honeycutt says her oldest son had his first allergic reaction at 18 months old after eating a walnut and eventually nearly died from eating a meal with pecan filling at Thanksgiving.
They made a deal that he would make an effort to drink green drinks she gave him, eat GMO-free foods, and go to alternative doctors to improve his gut health.
Two years after following these guidelines, walnut and pecan nut allergies dropped from level 19 to 0.2.
Glyphosate and autism
On the other hand, her second son suddenly developed symptoms of autism. He went from being a normal 8-year-old to behaving like a 3 or 4-year-old. His math grades went from Excellent to Poor, accompanied by erratic and aggressive behavior.
A medical examination revealed that he had intestinal dysbiasis or dysbacteriosis caused by C. Difficile. According to the doctor, an autism specialist, the inflammation of the intestine was causing inflammation in the brain. Glyphosate is known to cause this and the child was immediately tested for the chemical in his urine.
“His levels were eight times higher than those found in Europe when Friends of the Earth tested there. I was furious to think that the chemical Roundup was in my son. We decided to eat 100% organic food. After six weeks we tested him again and his glyphosate levels were almost undetectable, as were the symptoms of autism.
“What we did was heal his gut. We gave him an antifungal, we didn’t have to use probiotics, but we gave him a lot of sauerkraut and organic food. He didn’t eat sugar from Thanksgiving until New Year’s that year, so there was no way to feed those bacteria in the gut. The boy recovered and in five years he hasn’t had a single symptom of autism.”
Glyphosate found in vaccines
After reading a list of ingredients in the vaccines, Ms Honeycutt saw that they included polysorbate 80, which, like glyphosate, can cross the brain barrier, allowing in toxins such as aluminium, bovine blood serum and egg.
Considering that several of these ingredients are GMOs or have been fed with GMOs, it is possible that they were contaminated with glyphosate since it is not removed by simply washing the animal. When the animal consumes food with glyphosate, its body parts are also contaminated. The organization Mothers of America ordered tests to detect 5 vaccines and all came out positive.
“The MMR vaccine against rubella, mumps and measles had 25 times the amount of measles as the other vaccines. Another scientist independently tested 14 other vaccines and all of them tested positive.
My son had a 35 times higher content and it is known that the problem with this vaccine is precisely that: it causes dysbiasis and coincidentally, almost every child who suffers from autism has intestinal dysbiasis.”
There are other variables that are also affecting the reaction to vaccines in children at this time and they must also be taken into account.
In order to get out of this toxic system we need to not only try to eat organic food or grow our own food. We also need to learn to take care of ourselves with herbs and plants to practice preventative medicine from our homes and get out of the pharmaceutical laboratory system.
Allopathic medicine vs natural medicine
Allopathic medicine is the medicine practiced in hospitals and what we call conventional medicine. Allopathic doctors prescribe mainly chemical medicines, synthetic and derived from artificial or isolated products. Their treatments are based on the opposite, that is, their methods are aimed at eliminating symptoms that should be combated with chemical substances that oppose their expression, in this way their names are related to these methods called “Antis”: antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory, antihistamine, antibiotic…
Natural and biological medicines view disease as a central and deep bioenergetic imbalance that involves the entire organism.
Natural and biological medicine includes a psycho-physical indivisibility of the organism and individuality, since each person is a unique being who must be considered in his or her entirety and for whom treatment must be individualized.
Likewise, treatments that are applied differently. For example, homeopathy is based on the principle of “like cures like” and “the greater the dilution, the greater the potency.”
Aromatherapy, on the other hand, through the distillation process extracts a super concentration of the plant's essential oil without isolating it from its other components, allowing all the healing power to reach and adapt in symbiosis with the organism.
Floral essences, on the other hand, act in a vibratory and very subtle way, but the body perceives their effect clearly and effectively.
I encourage you to explore these alternatives and give your body the opportunity to heal and prevent illnesses by taking advantage of what Mother Nature offers us in a comprehensive way.
If you have not yet benefited from these forms of medicine or feel that they are not working for you, I encourage you to start with short organic detoxification programs. In my book The Art of Healing: Living Food, the alternative to nourish and heal yourself during this time, you will find interesting options for each of the main organs of the body.
You can also sign up on my website and download the free starter guide that will easily help you make the first healthy changes for your body.
References
If you wish, you can access the complete interview with Mrs. Zen Honeycutt by Dr. Joseph Mercola here