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It seems that at some dosage of glyphosate, the gut microbiome would be altered in a way that would make it more hospitable to pathogenic bacteria and less hosp
by cwkoss 7y ago
It seems that at some dosage of glyphosate, the gut microbiome would be altered in a way that would make it more hospitable to pathogenic bacteria and less hospitable to beneficial bacteria. The real question is what is the shape of this dose curve. How much glyphosate is needed to shift the relative proportion of beneficial to harmful bacteria 1%, or 5%?
Probably much more than found in Impossible burgers, but it would be nice to have more research on glyphosate's effects on the human gut. Does chronic ingestion of glyphosate from unwashed raw produce have any statistically significant effect on the human gut?
"The presented results evidence
that the highly pathogenic bacteria as Salmonella Entritidis,
Salmonella Gallinarum, Salmonella Typhimurium,
Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium botulinum are
highly resistant to glyphosate. However, most of beneficial
bacteria as Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium,
Bacillus badius, Bifidobacterium adolescentis and Lactobacillus spp. were found to be moderate to highly susceptible."
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Awad_Shehata/publication/233886989_The_Effect_of_Glyphosate_on_Potential_Pathogens_and_Beneficial_Members_of_Poultry_Microbiota_In_Vitro/links/55559b6608ae980ca60af0a9.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Awad_Shehata/publicatio...