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Hey, everybody, this is Dr. Gundry. I want to tell you about the number one worst ingredient that's actually hiding in the food you're eating right now. Don't eat this.

Glyphosate. Glyphosate is better known as roundup. It's the active ingredient in roundup. Why is glyphosate so bad? Well, sadly,

Monsanto patented glyphosate patented roundup as an anti-biotic, not as an herbicide. Now, think about that. Glyphosate is an anti-biotic. It turns out that glyphosate actually attacks a pathway for making energy called the Shikamate pathway.

That's a fun word. Try it three times. Shikamate. Plants use Shikamate pathway to produce energy and to grow and divide.

Animals do not have a Shikamate pathway. So it turns out that sounds pretty good. If glyphosate blocks the Shikamate pathway,

we could use it on plants, but if we ate glyphosate, we'd be fine because we don't have the Shikamate pathway. Not so fast.

Bacteria, our gut microbiome, used the Shikamate pathway to grow and divide. So glyphosate was patented as an anti-biotic that would kill bacteria, kill fungi.

Anti-biotic. So every time you eat a glyphosate, laden food, and we'll get to that in a second, you're killing your gut microbiome thanks to Monsanto and Roundup.

Number two, we now know that there are increasing studies that glyphosate, even without killing your gut microbiome, causes leaky gut, causes disruption in the barrier of the wall of your gut.

Lastly, we now know that glyphosate interrupts the efficiency of adrenal hormones like cortisol, like adrenaline, and thyroid hormones, and actually blocks the effect of these hormones.

So this is an all-in-one health destroyer. Now as you know, glyphosate was originally used in GMO crops, genetically modified organisms.

So that you could have, for instance, a Roundup ready soybean, and you could spray these soybeans, and they wouldn't die, but the weeds would die because the Roundup killed the Shikamate pathway in these weeds.

And this was considered a great boon. Now no one was worried because the glyphosate didn't affect humans or so we thought. And so it was approved by the FDA and the federal government as perfectly safe.

Subsequently, almost all corn in the United States is genetically modified to withstand Roundup treatments. 95% of all corn is genetically modified, almost all soybeans are genetically modified.

But it doesn't stop there. It turns out big industrial farming requires having these multi-million dollar harvesting machines arrive at a field on a certain day to harvest the corn, harvest the wheat, harvest the soybean, harvest the oats on a particular day.

And you can't wait for something as fickle as the weather to end the cycle of these plants having them die and dry. Having a plant dead and dried makes harvesting incredibly more efficient and hauling these grains much cheaper because water weighs a whole lot.

So in the last 10 years, big factory farms use glyphosate Roundup on conventional crops to kill them and desiccate them so they can be harvested in our particular day.

So most all commercial agriculture in North America now uses Roundup not on GMO crops. Yeah, they're still used on that, but on conventional crops to dry them.

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