TTT 3: Book Review. Trip to the South. MTB Art Film.

Triple Threat Thursday. Weed Killer Autism. Cold-approach in Charleston. Link to video.

A few months ago, a woman at a dinner asked me, why do so many people have autoimmune diseases? I said, “that’s a deep rabbit hole.” She said, “well I want to know. My brother never drank or smoked and he has TWO autoimmune conditions.”

I said “toxins in the food supply, in the environment and in pharma products [yes, vaccines too, cancel me] affect our microbiomes, which drives our immune systems.”

She said “what toxins?”

“Glyphosate is one that comes to mind.”

“What?”

“Do you know what Roundup is?”

“Oh yeah, I do.”

Months later, someone tweeted a link to opentheory.net and I read a theory about autism which linked to an lengthy and beautiful essay on autism which linked to a book about glyphosate. Toxic Legacy by Stephanie Senneff of MIT. I was skeptical but after listening to the audible sample, my head dropped. It’s so obvious. One way that glyphosate kills weeds is by disrupting a specific metabolic process that plants use, the shikimate pathway. Human cells don’t use this process. But …