Is Glyphosate Contributing to the Increase in Autism Prevalence?
Do you feel like our environment is getting more toxic?
We hear about air pollution, water pollution, heavy metals, hormone disruptors, obesogens, EMFs, biotoxins, and the list goes on.
There has been an exponential increase in autoimmune disorders, obesity, diabetes, dementia, cancer, and autism.
Do you see the correlation?
This is just one piece to the puzzle- I will focus on autism
How can we reduce our esposure?
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is such a wonderful resource for evaluating toxins that are having such as a huge impact on our health.
Let’s start with Roundup (glyphosate) which was developed to kills weeks to facilty crop preparation for out farmers.
Many of these crops are genetically modifified (GMO) to prevent them from being damaged by Roundup.
Many scientists have focused on the effect of Roundup on the Shikimate pathway in plants and how consuming these sprayed plants can lead to autism through various mechanisms:
Acting as anibiotic killing micribiome in gut leading to leaky gut causing brain inflammation
Directly toxic to mitochondria- the batteries of each cell- so we can’t power up the brain
Vital minerals and vitamins aren’t absorbed well due to leaky gut
Amino acids are impacted affecting brain chemistry
Immune sytem becomes impaired
We can reduce our exposure to Roundup sprayed by buying ORGANIC.
EWG has just come out with their 2023 list of dirty dozen foods that contain the highest quantity of Roundup and clean 15 which contain the lowest.
Here’s the link to dity dozen: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty-dozen.php
Here’s the link to the clean 15: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/clean-fifteen.php
Kids with autism tend to have compromised detoxification pathways due to genetic variants and low glutathione levels.
We don’t need to add more toxins to their full cups.
There are supplements such as glutathione, NAC, B vitamins, and magnesium to promote detox, but removal of glyphosate is parmanount.
In the Autism Healing Program, we work on removing glyphosate and eliminating any toxins that could be affecting your child’s health and impeding healing.
You can sign up for a free consult @ https://myhopewellness.satoriapp.com/offers/268129-discovery-session.
