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Any scientists want to weigh in here? It's a theory I've heard that does sound plausible even though it's coming from this moron's mouth.
I'm just here to point out that your stomach microbiome consists of bacteria and fungi, which are not plants. There's also direct evidence glyphosate causes several different types of cancer in animals, which is pretty harmful to animals. Also all life is made up of organic tissue, not just animals.
In the spirit of the comment we’re replying to - what direct evidence is there? I’ve mostly seen studies providing dubious or weak links between realistic dosages of Glyphosate and any animal harm. I legitimately want to learn more if I’m mistaken.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11445186/
A good resource, but it’s indicating that it’s a probable carcinogen, not a known carcinogen. That means that evidence is limited and it’s in the same category as red meat.
Yes and in that you are correct.
Nah, that sentence is just total non-sense.
Plants are still "organic tissue", the microbiome is mostly in the gut, not the stomach (the stomach is full of acid) and it does NOT consist of plants but of bacteria.
I was asking more of whether glyphosphate was responsible for some of the seeming uptake in gut disorders from wheat we see today.
no nothing comes from his mouth is plausible, he isnt a scientist in epidemiology, or a biologist, he a pseudoscience quack.
Yes, yes, I get it. We all hate him.
Well since no one else wanted to weigh in I looked it up. It seems there's some correlation in animals but nothing conclusive in humans yet. Glyphosate Exposure Found To Modulate Gut Microbiome Composition
I believe what he was trying to get at is that the shikimate pathway that glyphosate inhibits is also used in the bacteria and fungi that make up the gut microbiome.
Not sure what his overall point was supposed to be (or whether he had one) but that's the "microbiome is plants" part.
We are increasingly finding out that gut biome affects mood because the majority of serotonin and dopamine are produced in the gut. While I have to see any conclusive research, I would not be the least surprised to see a direct link between glycophosphate and depression discovered in the future.