{"id":75,"date":"2012-09-09T09:10:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/parkinsons-and-roundup-latest-in-a-long-list.html"},"modified":"2012-09-09T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T13:10:10","slug":"parkinsons-and-roundup-latest-in-a-long-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/parkinsons-and-roundup-latest-in-a-long-list.html","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson&#8217;s and Roundup: latest in a long list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWe already knew\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/04\/greed-is-good-for-poisoning-the-food-supply.html\">\nArgentinian farmers were suing Monsanto<\/a>\nabout Roundup-induced birth defects, including\ncerebral palsy, down syndrome, psychomotor retardation, missing fingers, and blindness;\nwe knew Roundup&#8217;s active ingredient glyphosate was\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/09\/glysophate-effects-on-humans-international-studies.html\">\n&#8220;a risk factor for developing Non-Hodgkin lymphoma&#8221;<\/a>;\nwe knew that Roundup-ready corn\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/03\/liver-and-kidney-damage-gm-crops.html\">\ncauses liver and kidney damage in rats<\/a>\nand\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/01\/abnormal-chicken-feed.html\">\nchickens fed feed including Monsanto corn show abnormal gene expression<\/a>,\nand we knew that\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/both-roundup-ready-corn-and-roundup-are-toxic-to-humans-scientific-evidence.html\">\nRoundup-ready corn is toxic to humans.<\/a>\nAdd to all that: Roundup is a risk for Parkinson&#8217;s disease.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSayer Ji wrote for GreenMediaInfo 18 April 2012,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/roundup-herbicide-linked-parkinsons-related-brain-damage\">\nRoundup Herbicide Linked To Parkinson&#8217;s-Related Brain Damage,<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nAlarming new research published in the journal\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/neurotoxicology-and-teratology\/\">\nNeurotoxicology and Teratology<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/roundup-herbicide-linked-parkinsons-related-brain-damage\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341cb65b53ef017c31bfb007970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a00d8341cb65b53ef017c31bfb007970b-pi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>\nsupports the emerging connection between glyphosate, the\nactive ingredient in Roundup herbicide, and neurodegenerative\nconditions such as Parkinson&#8217;s disease and Parkinsonian disorders.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPublished this month\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0892036212000438\">\n(April, 2012), the new study entitled\n\u201cGlyphosate induced cell death through apoptotic and\nauthophagic mechanisms,\u201d<\/a> investigated the potential\nbrain-damaging effects of herbicides, which the authors stated\n\u201chave been recognized as the main environmental factor\nassociated with neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson&#8217;s\ndisease.\u201d1\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThey found that glyphosate inhibited the viability of differentiated\ntest cells (PC12, adrenal medula derived), in both dose-and-time\ndependent manners. The researchers also found that \u201cglyphosate\ninduced cell death via authophagy pathways in addition to activating\napoptotic pathways.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRoundup herbicide is now a ubiquitous contaminant in our air, rain,\ngroundwater, and food, making complete avoidance near impossible. A\ngrowing body of experimental evidence now indicates that it in\naddition to its neurotoxicity it also has the following.\n<\/p>\n<h3>\nModes of Toxicity\n<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0892036212000438\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341cb65b53ef017c31bfb00d970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a00d8341cb65b53ef017c31bfb00d970b-pi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"249\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>\nCarcinogen<\/li>\n<li>\nEndocrine Disruptor<\/li>\n<li>\nGenotoxic<\/li>\n<li>\nBiocide<\/li>\n<li>\nCytotoxic<\/li>\n<li>\nBioaccumulator<\/li>\n<li>\nHepatotoxic<\/li>\n<li>\nTeratrogenic<\/li>\n<li>\nClastogenic<\/li>\n<li>\nOxidant<\/li>\n<li>\nAquacidal<\/li>\n<li>\nMutagenic<\/li>\n<li>\nAromatase Disruptor<\/li>\n<li>\nGlutathione Down-regulator<\/li>\n<li>\nMalondialdehyde Up-regulator<\/li>\n<li>\nNecrotic<\/li>\n<li>\nNephrotoxic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nOnce marketed as \u201csafe as table salt\u201d by Monsanto, the\noriginal patent holder and manufacturer of this glyphosate-based\nherbicide, evidence now indicates it is\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/research-roundup-diluted-450-fold-still-toxic-dna\">\ntoxic to human DNA<\/a>\nat concentrations diluted 450-fold lower than used in agricultural\napplications.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThere&#8217;s more in the article and in\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0892036212000438\">\nthe study.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We already knew Argentinian farmers were suing Monsanto about Roundup-induced birth defects, including cerebral palsy, down syndrome, psychomotor retardation, missing fingers, and blindness; we knew Roundup&#8217;s active ingredient glyphosate was &#8220;a risk factor for developing Non-Hodgkin lymphoma&#8221;; we knew that Roundup-ready corn causes liver and kidney damage in rats and chickens fed feed including Monsanto [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,8,174,44,6,72,73],"tags":[2761,2762,239,243,4,241,3,2763,242,2778,181,5,2,2760,240,171,183,179,2789,2790],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-agrochemicals","category-glyphosate","category-health","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-safety","category-science","tag-agriculture","tag-agrochemicals","tag-birth-defects","tag-bt","tag-day-month-year","tag-disease","tag-georgia","tag-glysophate","tag-gm","tag-health","tag-herbicide","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-parkinsons","tag-pesticide","tag-poison","tag-roundup","tag-safety","tag-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-1d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}