Re:The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry?
by robocat on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:53PM
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> ended up with it because they distrupted their gut flora by eating, say, the glyphosate in oats
This sounds wrong. Glyphosate targets an enzyme in plants. The residual levels in human food are extremely low, so why do you think those levels would affect our gut biome?
I found a relevant paper: "administered at up to fifty times the established European Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI = 0.5 mg/kg body weight) had very limited effects on bacterial community composition in Sprague Dawley rats" from paper titled "Glyphosate has limited short-term effects on commensal bacterial community composition in the gut environment due to sufficient aromatic amino acid levels": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026974911...
Can you refer to any papers that contradicts that?
Edit: I just read your first link on lectins: maybe Gundry has a point, but the crass commercialisation ("Dr. Gundry developed that are sold under the GundryMD brand", affiliate links to Amazon) of that article really detracts from it. It seems obvious to me problems with lectins could only affect a small percentage of people, given that the foods Gundry says to avoid are eaten commonly or staples in some populations for a long time. Note I very strongly agree that we should try a variety of different solutions to health issues (kinda scientific but not!), and I admire that you have found something that is helping you. I do dislike prosyletising of information without balance, and some of what you say is veering towards misinformation IMHO.
Edit 2: For completeness: some bacteria do have the enzyme affected by Glyphosate, which has been investigated to see if it affects bees via their gut biome. And the paper showed an effect on gut bacteria with 50x legal dosage if there were insufficient aromatic amino acid levels. The question is: does the maximum legal dosage affect the gut biome enough to be a problem? Given the crap our gut biome handles, and the fact it is a breeding ecology, I am sceptical.
This sounds wrong. Glyphosate targets an enzyme in plants. The residual levels in human food are extremely low, so why do you think those levels would affect our gut biome?
I found a relevant paper: "administered at up to fifty times the established European Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI = 0.5 mg/kg body weight) had very limited effects on bacterial community composition in Sprague Dawley rats" from paper titled "Glyphosate has limited short-term effects on commensal bacterial community composition in the gut environment due to sufficient aromatic amino acid levels": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026974911...
Can you refer to any papers that contradicts that?
Edit: I just read your first link on lectins: maybe Gundry has a point, but the crass commercialisation ("Dr. Gundry developed that are sold under the GundryMD brand", affiliate links to Amazon) of that article really detracts from it. It seems obvious to me problems with lectins could only affect a small percentage of people, given that the foods Gundry says to avoid are eaten commonly or staples in some populations for a long time. Note I very strongly agree that we should try a variety of different solutions to health issues (kinda scientific but not!), and I admire that you have found something that is helping you. I do dislike prosyletising of information without balance, and some of what you say is veering towards misinformation IMHO.
Edit 2: For completeness: some bacteria do have the enzyme affected by Glyphosate, which has been investigated to see if it affects bees via their gut biome. And the paper showed an effect on gut bacteria with 50x legal dosage if there were insufficient aromatic amino acid levels. The question is: does the maximum legal dosage affect the gut biome enough to be a problem? Given the crap our gut biome handles, and the fact it is a breeding ecology, I am sceptical.