Wonder
Sign up
Log in
Research Outline
Prepared for Lee | Delivered April 22, 2020
Roundup: A Causal Link?
Review your project details
Goals
To clarify the scientific studies that were referenced from the source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5705608/.
View less
Early Findings
Clarification of Scientific Studies Regarding the Toxicity of Roundup/Glyphosate
"
Facts and Fallacies in the Debate on Glyphosate Toxicity"
is
a scientific study
that
challenges
the
conclusions
that were
made in prior scientific study
by Samsel & Seneff. Thus,
two studies
were intended to be
referenced from this source
.
Samsel & Seneff
came to the conclusion that there is 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.
Mesnage & Antoniou challenge
this conclusion by asserting that glyphosate and Roundup are likely to increase the activity of the detoxifying CYP450 enzyme system.
Samsel & Seneff
came to the conclusion 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.
Mesnage & Antoniou challenge
this conclusion by asserting that 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.
View less