Glyphosate and Colorectal Cancer in Young Adults
By Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN, President of Children’s Health Defense
Colorectal cancer has increased by 51% in Americans under age 50 since the mid-1990s, and researchers suggest that “early life exposures...may be contributing to the rise” in that age group. A leading hypothesis is that gut dysbiosis, an imbalance of the microbes that reside in the gastrointestinal tract, is playing an active part—perhaps by disrupting young people’s immune response and triggering overactivation of cell signaling proteins in the colon.
Scientists attribute up to 85% of colorectal cancers to environmental and microbial factors. Glyphosate (the leading ingredient of Roundup) is both an herbicide and a patented antimicrobial. Could the upward trend in glyphosate usage that began roughly three decades ago have something to do, therefore, with the skyrocketing incidence of colorectal cancer in young people?
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