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It's also a neurotoxin in humans: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101768/

hammock 3y ago
Is there glyphosate in our food? How does it get there?
- downWidOutaFite 3y ago
  Mainly Roundup residues on GMO foods, as well as farm runoff in groundwater. EPA estimates we're all exposed to 0.058–0.230 mg/kg/day and they set the maximum acceptable daily dose at 1.75 mg/kg/day. But the available dosage science is weak.
  - hammock 3y ago
    Thanks this is great data. Not sure who is downvoting you or why
  - nemonemo 3y ago
    Why mainly through GMO foods? I am wondering if other non-GMO ones would use mostly non Roundups, which would be a surprise to me given the availability of Roundups for vegetation control purpose around houses.
    - ROTMetro 3y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready
adrr 3y ago
Almost everything is neurotoxic depending on the dose. Sodium Chloride(Table Salt) will reek havoc on your brain and nervous systems if the concentration gets to high. Why you get muscle cramps and dizzy when dehydrated. Luckily the study addresses this and says that you have heavily dose rats to get a neurotoxic effect but humans will never see this dose under environmental exposure. > Most of studies of rodents analyzed in this review used doses of glyphosate or GBH that did not exceed the current NOAEL and ranged from 5 mg/kg [68] to 800 mg/kg [13]. These doses are not representative of human environmental exposures, which are in the range of μg/kg/day.
- anigbrowl 3y ago
  Rotten eggs reek, wreaking havoc on your olfactory sensibilities.
- downWidOutaFite 3y ago
  The main point of that section you're quoting is that NOAEL has been set way too high and they didn't account for neurotoxicity. We need more studies. We don't really know at what levels neurotoxicity becomes a problem in human. > the data discussed herein suggest that these values may still be too high. The results analyzed in this review suggest that the ability of glyphosate, alone or in formulation, to produce neurotoxic effects in rodents has been underestimated.
  - adrr 3y ago
    Just to be clear when they talk about NOAEL amount. Its a lot of glyphosate. NOAEL for a human person is drinking two bottles of roundup. The other ingredients(surfactants) would do you in before the glyphosate. Amount humans are exposed to very minimal as mentioned in the study. Don't drink roundup.
    - downWidOutaFite 3y ago
      We don't know if the amounts humans are exposed to are very minimal.
- bcatanzaro 3y ago
  Water is also neurotoxic in large quantities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

hammock 3y ago

Is there glyphosate in our food? How does it get there?

downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Mainly Roundup residues on GMO foods, as well as farm runoff in groundwater. EPA estimates we're all exposed to 0.058–0.230 mg/kg/day and they set the maximum acceptable daily dose at 1.75 mg/kg/day. But the available dosage science is weak.
- hammock 3y ago
  Thanks this is great data. Not sure who is downvoting you or why
- nemonemo 3y ago
  Why mainly through GMO foods? I am wondering if other non-GMO ones would use mostly non Roundups, which would be a surprise to me given the availability of Roundups for vegetation control purpose around houses.
  - ROTMetro 3y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready

adrr 3y ago

Almost everything is neurotoxic depending on the dose. Sodium Chloride(Table Salt) will reek havoc on your brain and nervous systems if the concentration gets to high. Why you get muscle cramps and dizzy when dehydrated. Luckily the study addresses this and says that you have heavily dose rats to get a neurotoxic effect but humans will never see this dose under environmental exposure. > Most of studies of rodents analyzed in this review used doses of glyphosate or GBH that did not exceed the current NOAEL and ranged from 5 mg/kg [68] to 800 mg/kg [13]. These doses are not representative of human environmental exposures, which are in the range of μg/kg/day.

anigbrowl 3y ago
Rotten eggs reek, wreaking havoc on your olfactory sensibilities.
downWidOutaFite 3y ago
The main point of that section you're quoting is that NOAEL has been set way too high and they didn't account for neurotoxicity. We need more studies. We don't really know at what levels neurotoxicity becomes a problem in human. > the data discussed herein suggest that these values may still be too high. The results analyzed in this review suggest that the ability of glyphosate, alone or in formulation, to produce neurotoxic effects in rodents has been underestimated.
- adrr 3y ago
  Just to be clear when they talk about NOAEL amount. Its a lot of glyphosate. NOAEL for a human person is drinking two bottles of roundup. The other ingredients(surfactants) would do you in before the glyphosate. Amount humans are exposed to very minimal as mentioned in the study. Don't drink roundup.
  - downWidOutaFite 3y ago
    We don't know if the amounts humans are exposed to are very minimal.
bcatanzaro 3y ago
Water is also neurotoxic in large quantities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication