● For foods you are unfamiliar with plus tips on how to pick fresh vegetables see food subs.
● Glyphosate is a mixture of two salt compounds (isopropylamine salt and potassium salt). Salt is an effective non-toxic herbicide. Salt kills weeds, as well as all other plants.
GM crops are resistant to glyphosate. Glyphosate is used to kill Non-GM plant growth like weeds and grasses that compete with GM crops. It is also used as a desiccant (drying agent), just prior to harvest on cereal crops.
Salt compounds also have strong metal binding properties. This makes glyphosate an excellent vehicle for delivering and infusing toxic heavy metals into our food chain.
Glyphosate-based herbicides like Roundup, have been shown to contain heavy metals such as arsenic. For this reason, it is the most toxic herbicide in the world and shockingly the most widely used.
Toxic heavy metals are endocrine disrupting elements. Our endocrine system is a complex network of glands that produce and secrete hormones. Hormones are chemical substances produced in the body to control metabolism, energy level, reproduction, growth, development, and response to injury, stress, and mood.
In addition to heavy metals, it also contain surfactants (aka emulsion stabilizers). This is why glyphosate is a possible cause of intestinal inflammation.
Polyethoxylated (POE-tallowamine) surfactants are additives in glyphosate. They are used to help herbicides stick to plants. Thus, increasing the adsorption rate of sodium and the highly toxic metals in glyphosate when it’s sprayed on crops.
There is no morally justifiable reason why toxic heavy metals and surfactants are needed in glyphosate. For more on toxic heavy metals in glyphosate.
● Detoxification is the removal of damaging compounds already in the body. Whereas detoxication is preventive action that stops the entry of damaging substances like toxic heavy metals, drugs, cosmetics, agrochemicals, food additives and industrial chemicals into the body. Probiotics are helpful bacteria that can contribute to detoxication of environmental contaminants in your gut microbiome. Probiotics can metabolize – break down – damaging substances.
That said, because arsenic is not a compound or molecule that is made up of other elements, it can’t be broken down. Arsenic is an element and an element is made up of only one type of atom. But fortunately probiotics can also bind with toxic heavy metals like arsenic. As a result, alter their chemical structure, thereby preventing them from entering your body.
Inorganic arsenic is mostly found in meats, poultry, dairy products and cereal. Organic arsenic is mostly found in seafood, fruit, and vegetables. Research indicates that inorganic arsenic is more toxic and its health effects are more severe. On a lighter note, the removal of arsenic from the body can happen in several days or months. It all depends on the type (organic or inorganic) and regularity of amount consumed over time.
Detoxication usually occurs in the human intestinal tract before damaging substances can be absorbed into the body. The process of detoxication is enhanced by Lactobacilli, and other helpful bacteria that make up our gut microbiota. For more on probiotics.
● The American Heart Association (AHA) recommended daily dietary sodium intake is 1500 mg. The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) is 2300 mg. IMO, the minimum daily amount of dietary sodium that you need to poison your body is between 1500 mg and 2300 mg. Go figure!
The human body only requires about 500 mg of dietary sodium daily to function properly. Eating between 500 and 1400 plus mg daily is leeway. At or above 1500 mg may disrupt your oral and intestinal microbiome.
It doesn’t matter if you eat refined or unrefined salt – such as Celtic sea salt. But, for the record, Celtic sea salt is a lot better than any refined salt. That said, too much is still never good.
The human microbiome is home to trillions of microorganisms that live on and inside our bodies. Our microbiome is composed of both good and bad bacteria that create a healthy balance in the body. Bacteria is sensitive to dietary sodium because it can cause dysbiosis, which is scientific jargon for – disruption to the delicate balance of our microbiome.