Health & Fitness
How Roundup Damages Your Mitochondria & Makes You Sick
If your mitochondria fail to provide energy, you cannot exist.
Mitochondria supply energy for every plant and animal cell on earth.
Mitochondrial dysfunction has been linked to many diseases, including; heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure seizure disorders, asthma, allergies, auto immune disorders, obesity, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, autism and fibromyalgia.
Your mitochondria also play an important role in inflammation and cell death. These two roles make your mitochondria have an important role in diseases such as cancer. Damaged cells fail to receive the message to self-destruct and therefore continue their malignant growth.
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Inflammation can be divided into three different forms:
1. Metabolic inflammation (conditions such as hypertension and diabetes)
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2. Allergic inflammation
3. Autoimmune inflammation
Chronic, low-level inflammation, tends to underlie most chronic health conditions.
How Glyphosate Damages Your Mitochondria:
Manganese appears to be involved in the process in which Roundup (glyphosate) damages mitochondria. Roundup binds with manganese, as well as many other minerals, which are then eliminated from the body. This process is called chelation.
Your mitochondria require manganese to function properly. Without it, your mitochondria experience oxidative damage. Roundup has also been found to damage mitochondrial membranes.
When Will USDA Test Food For Glyphosate Residues?
Last summer the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced U.S. regulators may start testing for Roundup residues in food in the near future. The latest annual pesticide residue report still did not include Roundup.
The EPA actually raised the allowable limits for glyphosate in food in 2013. Limits for root and tuber vegetables (with the exception of sugar), were raised from 0.2 parts per million (ppm) to 6.0 ppm. Meanwhile, researchers have documented malformations in frog and chicken embryos starting at 2.03 ppm of glyphosate. The allowable limit in oilseed crops (except for canola and soy) was raised to 40 ppm, which is 100,000 times the amount needed to induce cancer in breast cells.