Roundup (Glyphosate): A Causal Link in the Rise of Virus Transmission and Pandemics?

• There are diverse points of view on glyphosate toxicity that have led to extreme discrepancies in the scientific community that have given rise to confusion.
•  One study did find a causal link between the ingestion of Roundup through eating animals that were exposed to glyphosate and chronic illness in humans because of the suppression of the activity of the cytochrome P450 class of enzymes (CYP450) and amino acid biosynthesis by the gut microbiome that then inhibits the detoxifying CYP450 enzyme system. This study also found that large-scale environmental damage, such as the collapse of coral reefs, may in fact be due to glyphosate, with a causal link to prion diseases in humans that are usually rapidly progressive and always fatal.

• However, another study came to the opposite conclusion by asserting that glyphosate and Roundup are likely to increase the activity of the detoxifying CYP450 enzyme system. This study also found that the conclusion that there is a causal link between prion diseases and Roundup/glyphosate is speculative since the effects of glyphosate on metal micronutrient homeostasis have never been characterized, and the chelation of Mn by glyphosate would actually be protective against rather than a causative agent of prion diseases.
• The conflicting scientific studies of the toxicity of Roundup and glyphosate do not definitively prove that there is a causal link between its worldwide introduction and the rise of animal-human virus transmission, nor do they definitively prove that there is a causal relationship between its worldwide introduction and the rise of the modern pandemic.
• However, a review of another scientific study found that, while still not proving a causal link or relationship between Roundup and glyphosate to the rise of animal-human virus transmission or the modern pandemic, there is a causal link to a risk of cancer in humans because of the potential additive estrogenicity and a causal link to also be a source of genotoxicity, cytotoxicity, and reproductive toxicity.
• Another most recent source from this month confirmed that there is still much debate  about the toxicity of Roundup and glyphosate, even regarding a causal link to cancer and other health concerns such as endocrine disruption, liver disease, birth defects, reproductive diseases, killing beneficial gut bacteria, damage to DNA in human embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells, increases in obesity, and kidney diseases.