Coming up on today's show. A lot of people don't know what glyphosate it is, and I admit I didn't know what it was either back in 2010, 2011. They panted it to be used to strip metals off of pipes because it's very good at chelating metals. I think it was an accidental discovery that it killed plants. So then they patented as an herbicide. 1974, I think, was when it first was available in the United States. So it is like all over the food supply. And it's not just the GMO. You think, oh, non-GMO, great, I'll buy that. That's not good because some of the highest levels are showing up in non-GMO products. It's basically grains and beans, like legumes, and also sugarcane. So all these crops are sprayed right before harvest. I actually collected some rainwater in Cambridge at my lab at MIT, and I sent it off to Anthony Samsell, and he chested it and found glyphosate in it. So it's in the rain, which is scary. Glyphysate is a disaster for deuterium. I would say now that glyphosate's effects on the deuterium homeostasis is its primary mechanism of toxicity.

And it has to do, of course, in part with disrupting the gut microbiome.

Stephanie, let's start out really general.

What is glyphosate and why is it such a disaster for the human body?

Yeah, great question.

So a lot of people don't know what glyphosate is,

and I admit I didn't know what it was either back in 2010, 2011. It's the active ingredient in the

pervasive herbicide Roundup. Actually, lately, they've actually taken glyphosate out of Roundup that

they sell to the residential market in the United States. So I can't, I can no longer say that

it's the active ingredient in Roundup. I have to be careful about that. But people know Roundup,

you know, it's really popular for killing Dandelions in New Yard. It's also extremely heavily used

in the food supply. It's considered to be a great herbicide because it's quote unquote completely safe for human exposure.

They don't worry about toxicity with it.

The government doesn't measure how much roundup is in the food, how much glyphosate is in the food.

They consider it to be perfectly safe, and that's where the danger lies because it's not safe.

And that's what I show in my book.

I have my book here, Toxic Legacy, how the weed killer glyphosate is destroying our health and the environment. And I took quite a ride starting in 2012 when I was introduced to glyphosate

by a presentation by Professor Don Huber, two-hour presentation on glyphosate,

and I was blown away because I was looking for causal factors in autism.

I had looked for five years and I was coming up short.

And when I watched his two-hour presentation, I became convinced in that moment that I had found my answer, and I have not deviated from that since then.

So it's quite amazing. I did a deep dive into glyposa, I read everything I could about it.

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