Dr. Stephanie Seneff is becoming a big fish in a little pond of people who are wanting cutting-edge and truthful information with substantial enough research credentials supporting it to validate what other researchers are saying, in my opinion.  In this topic you'll be able to connect dots like your hair losing it's color to what's on your breakfast, lunch, or dinner plate.  

She has been verbalizing or writing about the 'dots' and 'connecting the dots', and helping the ripple turn into a wave of information that helps us understand the massive increases in the various environmental illnesses.  Autism. Alzheimers. Zzzz / insomnia, and everything in between A and Z.  And yes, hair color -- or lack thereof -- is something that comes up in the discussion at this wonderful One Radio Network interview from May of 2014.  See below for the link, the highlights from their website AND my transcribed version of the last 1/3 of the show for the details I think you'll want to be sure to read AND go listen to. 

 

From the Facebook page of an 'autism mom' who was 'getting into' Dr Seneff's work too:

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Stephanie Seneff links glyphosate to depleting sulfur in mammals, causing GI issues; low sulfur (sulfate) levels = a welcome mat for pathogens!

What do kids with autism have? Dr. Rosemary Waring has proven that kids with autism have abnormal sulfur metabolism. Phenol sulfotransferase, which is deficient in kids with autism, is the enzyme involved for breaking down and clearing toxins from the body.

Glyphosate is one of the biggest assaults on our planet!

(Link to Wikipedia re: Rosemary Waring: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Waring

 

Here's an excerpt from a blog that went 'viral' in late 2014 on Facebook, where I noticed it got people reading about wheat MORE than ANYTHING I had seen before! I didn't think everything in the blog was correct, I thought it seemed rather skewed, but I remembered it on Thanksgiving when two of us with similar careing about food quality, who have had similar health issues, sought out pecan pie at an upscale eatery which is conscious about toxins in foods. As I'd not talked with the owner for a while, we got the update on her fall from health and recovery in the last year, and I brought up wheat.  There was only one other person at the bar, a man who didn't look like the usual patron for that kind of place, and I found it so interesting that he knew about the glyphosate and wheat harvest!  

 

"According to Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT who has studied the issue in depth and who I recently saw present on the subject at a nutritional Conference in Indianapolis, desiccating non-organic wheat crops with glyphosate just before harvest came into vogue late in the 1990’s with the result that most of the non-organic wheat in the United States is now contaminated with it.  Seneff explains that when you expose wheat to a toxic chemical like glyphosate, it actually releases more seeds resulting in a slightly greater yield:   “It ‘goes to seed’ as it dies. At its last gasp, it releases the seed” says Dr. Seneff.

According to the US Department of Agriculture, as of 2012, 99% of durum wheat, 97% of spring wheat, and 61% of winter wheat has been treated with herbicides. This is an increase from 88% for durum wheat, 91% for spring wheat and 47% for winter wheat since 1998."

Here's a link to a topic about autism and the diet that I recommend to people -- all people -- by Marty Ross, MD, and then went on to add a comment about Dr Seneff's findings about vaccine and autism, and the interplay of glyphosate with things that are in some vaccines.   www.lumigrate.com/forum/6-practical-diet-recommendations-marty-ross-md-whether-you-have-bug-borne-disease-or-know-it-o#comment-2650 .  

There is also the vaccine topic at Lumigrate, where I just added in the transcribed words of Dr Seneff up very near the top to help people right away see that it's not 'just' the vaccines, but that the hubbub about vaccines is valid, per her research (and many others, it's just that what Dr Seneff has connected as 'circumstantial evidence' is innovative and makes total sense and she has such a solid reputation and foundation underneath her in her lengthy career, I feel it's best to front-load my topics with her research findings for our YOUsers): www.lumigrate.com/forum/vaccinations-overall-where-do-you-stand-american-or-otherwise

 

In order to understand what Dr Seneff presents, and which I've transcribed at another topic about the MMR vaccine adverse events before and after 2002, this is valuable information about the trends with herbicides in US agricultural practice.  Before 2002, when she crunched the data, the events were related to joints and after the events were reflecting that things were affecting the brain and not just the joints.  Significant circumstantial evidence that is gathered by this brainy woman thankfully allowed to do this research at MIT, she says, because Monsanto doesn't have any funding connections there as it would an ag school.  Her backgound is in computer science, and her research has included artificial intelligence and a lot of very interesting things.  Sometimes people try to 'ding' her for the type of research she has a background in, and I think it's innovative, appropriate and clearly yielding results! Results which I think are worthy of study.  

I'm editing in something else on April 25, 2015 because I heard another interview with her that occurred after I'd created this topic, and I thought it was the best interview she's given in terms of explaining her history.  That may be the way this particular interviewer worked --- perhaps it was their first time talking -- or perhaps she's getting a routine down for what she says in interviews so that those unfamiliar with her and her work 'get the story' about how she got into 'this stuff'.  I find it fascinating --- it began with heart disease being diagnosed and treated rather emergently with her husband and her seeing flaws in the logic, so to speak.

She then gives a very good overview of the interplaying factors of her research and the way she basically started with one thing and found things that she could figure out but then other things baffled her so -- she kept researching.  And she's still researching. Again, this might be a good hour for starting with if someone's new to this information and wanting the big picture of her work. She's just been going along and into how it all relates to autism, kidney, liver, diabetes --- the massive health crisis we have in so many categories and 'labeled illnesses'.  

I can't wait to see if she weaves the ever-important cyanobacteria into her education to the public, as I heard she has had her interests picqued about cyanobacteria. Here's the link: optimumwellnessandrehab.com/podcast-2/drstephanieseneff/

Today, the reality is that a lot of people are empowered by the Internet -- smart people who are good researchers and who don't have the 'credentials' that come with college degrees and funding at major universities.  For many years, people have been trying different strategies to solve symptoms of medical conditions. They'll tell others, others try it and so on, and eventually a doctor or researcher (or both in one person) will learn of it and perhaps try it on themselves, then on others they trust to do it safely, and then they start offering it their following as patients or learners.  I can forsee that what Dr. Seneff shares in her presentations and publications is going to greatly further our overall wellness.  I hope it is going to help people see the importance of not supporting the use of this chemical.  Every bite, sip and money spent is either condoning the GMO and glyphosate companies or not. 

Dr. Seneff's background is with engineering and computer science in terms of her degrees, and previous research included aritifical intelligence and studying how marine mammals communicate.  She has been absorbed by glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide 'Roundup', which is past it's patent time so is now also made by other companies in other countries too, since hearing someone talk about it years back -- you'll hear them discuss that on this interview, below.  She's very cheery and bubbly and friendly when she speaks, and I find it very easy to learn from her.  So I hope YOU do as well.  

I am a generalist, I can't keep all this information of details in my head as to WHY and WHAT, I get the overview and am able to communicate it more simplistically.  But if I create the topics on Lumigrate they can be directed to, then they have that as a resource. And anyone else finding the information, naturally, you have the benefit of it as well.  

I've found some people and maybe people overall in the US have the 'complacent' attitude that Dr Seneff mentions in this interview.  There are a lot of reasons I have found this interview so interesting and important enough for starting a new topic and headlining it with her name and really focus upon GMO and glyphosate so our YOUsers can look this over, read it, print it, mark it up and make notes OR listen to the interview which I suggest people certainly do (and find much more at One Radio Network by Dr Seneff.  Their search bar is funny, you have to use her first and last names together and then you'll get the list of all the interviews she's done there.  Here's the link for this one: 

://oneradionetwork.com/health/dr-stephanie-seneff-glyphosate-either-goes-away-go-away-may-20-2014/

Glyphosate (the active chemical in brand name RoundUp, made by Monsanto) -- either it goes or we go away. That's the nutshell statement from Dr. Stephanie Seneff.  I wanted to provide for Lumigrate YOUsers the overview of the interview she gave with Patrick at OneRadioNetwork in 2014, linked to above ^.  It's about 3/4 of the way through the hour when she makes that statement, and what she relates and they discuss up to that point lays the foundation for understanding why she makes that BIG of a statement! 

WHY, and TAKING THE TIME TO LEARN WHY, is CRITICAL for YOU to be able to WANT to MAKE THE EFFORT and GO TO THE EXPENSE involved in GETTING GMOs and products that will have glyphosate in them OUT OF YOUR WORLD .. your home, your body, your 'you name it'.  

In advising people about YOU taking REAL CONTROL of your health care, it is critical that YOU are picking WHO you're going to have around you for advise (whether in-person or through learning 'virtually', from published / printed information, etc.).  YOU, the consumer, (consumer = 1. you buy it and/or 2. you put it in your body) have to put in the time and energy (and money in some cases) to study enough about what affects health to want to put in the additional effort and resources (time, energy, money) to 'take action', or be proactive some would call it.  It is lifestyle changes that have to occur when you shift.  

DO YOU VALUE YOURSELF -- your body, mind, spirit WHOLE self (or that of your children, spouse, friends, etc. -- others you influence by what you purchase, serve, etc) to do that? THAT IS THE QUESTION. Do you value yourself enough to stay in relationships where you're being 'used and abused' (such as going to a store that sells products that are known to harm people, work environments, home environments, personal relationships including biological or legal family relationships)?  Or are your dependencies and possible addictions to things running YOU and your 'show'?  Stop and think about THAT -- take as long as you need, this topic isn't going anywhere.  Maybe your time will be better spent reading on AFTER you've processed this paragraph. 

Someone might say 'it's too expensive to eat all organic' without looking at what things they can do without and then have the money to eat things that are going to be less damaging to their well-being.  What if you changed all around the way you ate and it ended up not costing any more? Yes, that would take a lot of thinking and learning and do-ing on your part.  Decide if it's important enough.  After all, how clearer can it be said? Either glyphosate goes away or we go away.  So how do YOU make it go away? Quit supporting anyone who uses it, directly and indirctly. 

It's up to YOU to decide if that's what you're going to do or if you're going to keep doing what you're doing.  And remember that a strategy I've promoted since year #2 at Lumigrate brought to us about reducing the risk of cancer was to simply do one thing different every time you go to a store to purchase something and then keep that ball going (continue purchasing that improved safety of product) and the next time do another.  If you go 2x a week to the store, that's 100 things in a year you'll have revamped in terms of the safety of what is in the product for your home, body, etc. 

Impulsively at the store shelves is a problem for people with impulse control issues.  People can 'know better' and not 'do better' and so then you have to look at WHY that is! What I see with my background assessing cognitive and motor processing and function in a long career in occupational therapy, which is what my university degree is in, has shown me that sometimes the brains just look at the prices and that is how the person choses the item to purchase.  Or their brain has an association with something they see that it 'wants', and they don't have the "wherewithall" to overcome it.  

You need to have a fairly good 'state of mind' to go into the stores and do a good job shopping.  Just as with having someone HELP with LEARNING if your brain is impaired for learning and getting things turned around, I suggest people get help with shopping if they're not 'doing' what they 'know' or have learned and 'want to be doing' with their purchases. Just don't take someone who's going to not work in your favor. 

Today, it's no longer as it was decades ago when our minds were more solid (and our behaviors) and we just needed to not be hungry or with low blood sugar to make better choices on our purchases.  I enjoy going to a regular grocery store and looking at the things I used to purchase on a regular basis -- and think about how I was unwittingly contributing to my health falling further from 'wellness'.  

Often, the purchasing decision is made because people have a number in their head of what they want to be spending on groceries and etc. and they're not prioritizing it has the #1 thing that is affecting their well-being.  They'll say 'it's good for us to relax and recreate' and put money into skiing or vacations or buying goods and services they don't REALLY need, and keep their food costs low because they're eating things that the 'monkeys' have made be cheap through all the 'monkeybusiness' deals that are in existence between our governments and our corporations.  Please do your homework and also just STOP and THINK about what I'm saying here.  Then proceed. 

I now go in and look for the labels that indicate something is "organic".  "Non-GMO".  KISS -- Keep it Super Simple!  It's made easier by stores that have expectations about the supplier sources, and I'm fortunate that Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage started in Colorado the same year my parents bought their property not far from where Margaret was starting Vitamin Cottage. Unfortunately, my family didn't ever know about them until, I believe, I moved to Denver in 1996 to do my OT internship and found one near the post office where I got my mail.  

They have been expanding into many states in recent years and even bought up another chain that took them into more states to the east from Colorado.  One still has to know a lot to shop there and make the BEST choices, but you can go in there blindly and come out with a much better chance of not further damaging your health and promoting your well-being with whatever you come out with in terms of what items you'd normally purchase. 

The overview of the show from the OneRadioNetwork website:

Show Highlights:

-Our gut bacteria and the role it plays in our health; gut issues are epidemic

-Glyphosate has been patented as an antibiotic; what does this mean for the gut?

-It has been shown that Lactobacillus is good for the brain, fighting anxiety an depression

-Good and bad bacteria: What does this mean? Stephanie tells us

-It’s very clear that glyphosate causes fungal infections; what does this mean for our bees, bats and other animals? How does fungus affects humans

-The role of candida in the body

-A fascinating story about the flu which is essentially a healing method; the flu is stealing the sulfates from the muscles and distributing it to the blood

-Why sulfate is important in the body

-The best thing for the pineal gland is sunlight.

-A great way to get magnesium sulfate is to take an epsom salt bath

-God Bless Putin; Russia wants no part of GMOs

-Dr. Seneff tells us why the U.S. will be the last country to reject GMOs

-Either it goes away or we go away

-Glyphosate chelates manganese and it’s really causing problems with fertility

-There’s only a small group of people doing this kind of research; the 2 hour talk that changed Dr. Seneff”s life

-The reason animal food is good for you

-Sulfur deficiency is huge in modern diseases

-How do glyphosates tie into gluten intolerance?

-Going GMO free is not enough, you have to go organic

-and so much more!!!!

We spend a lot less money on food than other countries, and we've totally embraced these 

shikimate pathway is what gets disrupted in the plants that make them die.  Since our cells, their argument is, don't have that enzyme/pathway, but in fact all our gut bacteria have the pathway.  There are 10x the    They're incredibly important to us.  We're  90%, by cell count, microbes -- they're little.  The gut bacteria play an enormous part in our health.  The gut is so disruptive these days, all the diagnostic words are mentioned.  The antibiotics are looked at too.  Glyphosate is actually an antibiotic per the patent.  All these breakouts of drug-resistant bacteria, are overgrowing because the good bacteria are being harmed by the glyphosate.  The good bacteria will make the brain happy -- it's amazing because they can provide lactobacillus probiotics to people and see results.  

She has a unique theory about bacteria.  Good means bacteria stays in the gut. Bad means they'll venture out to other areas, the pathogens.  The blood --- sepsis. They're coming in to help your body, they carry on their backs both nutrients and genes that are able to do something that you can't do because your genes don't have the information to do that, but this is a raw theory of mine  now.   Glycated proteins that are glummed up with sugar.  Glyoxylate is a whopper of a glycating agent and it t urns out fungus can sort of kills your cells but it takes the glyoxilate and turns it into sugar which you can then burn.  Fungus is killing all kinds of species and stressing them out, dying out in record numbers in the US, both plant and animal species.  I know the glyphosate is causing the fungal infections but why is where I'm stuck.  

It's similar to candida, Patrick notes.  Getting rid of a toxic poison, because your body can't get rid of things, so these little species have so many resources to throw at a problem to get around a problem becasue they have a pathway you don't or somehow can deal with a pathogen you can't. ... They do cause disease, we have to suffer a bit with them.  

With the flu you get achey muscles.  The muscle cells end up stealing sulfate from the muscles and shipping it / delivering it out to the blood, which will maintain health blood circulation. Which is more important than having healthy muscles.  So all the illnesses have some role to play in 'redistributing wealth' in a way.  Aeromatic amino acids are very important precurors to neurotransmitters and molecules / hormones in the body that regulate neurons.  It turns out they have to do with sulfate transport.  It's very important and tricky to transport.  Glyphosate also messes up both of the classes of sulfate transport --- cholesterol, Vitamin D, DHEA, etc.  

The capillaries will have a slick lining with enough sulfate. If you don't have that then the red blood cells get stuck in the capillaries. Transporting sulfur becomes a big issue, which is why we have the sterols and the others.  And glyphosate messes this up.  

It changes the character of the molecule, their behavior.  It doesn't cause the gelling of the blood.

Patrick says: It sounds like glyphosates in teh GMO foods are literally killing people.  

Gut bacteria getting messed up

Sleep disorder is a major problem, melatonin

So I've looked a lot at the pineal gland

Autism, Alzheimers and other neurological disorders likely as well.

A really important thing about sleep is it's a time when all the broken  molecules get cleaned up.  All the cells are busy dumping their glycated proteins. It turns out they need sulfate to do that.  The melatonin, once it delivers the sulfate, is a terrific antioxidant so at night it really helps keep the brain working well.  The amyloid beta that's  part of Alzheimers is an example she gives.

Take extra sunlight in the bright light and open your eyes and don't wear sunglasses is what you can do to make your pineal gland happy.  We have a theory about this, and believe it's as imporant as what happens with plants.  They can use sunlight as the catalyst as the energy source ... animals have found a way to use sulfate in the skin.  Enos molecule is part of the family of enzymes called cytochrome P50 enzymes (??) ...  you need the sunlight to produce the enzyme as well.  So you get a triple whammy with these kids.  A paper on CSF in brains of people with autism showed                becasue the          was not delivering it.  

So you have these two systems in the body for it and both rely on sunlight.  

It makes the sulfate by day and then delivers it by night.   

And some of what is said starting and 40 minute, for those wanting to read along, or skim over and take a look before knowing if it's worth the going to listen: 

40 minutes in:  Someone named Rob calls in with a Mercola dot com article about the US going to ban raw meat sales and mentions that 'with Mercola you just don't know', which is unfortunately the case with so many of the websites, Natural News and Mike Adams went the same way.  They started out with what appeared to be earnest, unencumbered information and then either my abilities to sniff out 'B.S.' got more refined OR they became B.S. -- or both, perhaps.

Later (42:35) they get an email that Patrick reads that says that the meat story was a hoax -- they'd said it was from April 1, 2014.  AAAHaaa, April Fools.  Stephanie said it was a good thing she didn't get more into that one, and I have to think "What the heck, Mercola dot com, now you're doing jokes on April Fools Day and then people find that after the 1st of April and aren't 'thinking April Fools'.  

My 'ranking' of that website just fell a WHOLE lot!  (Not to mention that yesterday when preparing information about WATER I was looking to see what Mercola had and there's quite critical information online about how he changed his tune about distilled water being good to saying it's not at around the same time his products he sells at his site included filters. I 'get it', because how to keep Lumigrate 'honest' and make money to support me and my expenses / family (which includes the website / business) has always been a wresting match that I've dealt with in my own little way. 

41 minutes in: Patrick asks Dr Seneff if it's true that there's 'drift' from the spraying of products such as Roundup that contain glyphosate, so it gets on everything, everywhere and so it will be in products that are intended to be 'organic'.   She says she thinks that is somewhat true.  The US uses 25% of the world's glyphosate and it's a huge amount.  

The organic growers don't have to use organic manure from cows eating organic foods and waters so therefore the manure can have glyphosate in them.  Cows have an incredibly high tolerance for the chemical in the corn and soy they are fed, so you almost certainly get glyphosate in the manure. You have to hope that it's less, because they're not applying it to the crop, but you really can't avoid it -- in the US it's SO pervasive, she states. People are using it on their lawns...  

43:00 Raw milk, organic raw milk is such a great food for kids, especially if they're sick.  It's the best food next to breast milk, which can have a lot of toxins in it so organic raw cow milk is something she 'hates the way they're regulating'. Sometimes the breast milk has more toxins than what is allowed in Europe in water, she said. 

43:31 Patrick brings up that Russia just said no to US' GMOs and Stephanie lights up and says joyfully that she's really happy about Russia and China.  "Russia's like 'We don't need your GMOs, thank you very much' and so I really love Putin for that (and giggles), ya know?

And China's heating up too -- China's starting to wake up and realize there's something I just found from China that was talking about -- they've done a tremendous switch over the last ten years from growing their own soy. They eat a huge amount of soy there, and they were importing it from the West (GMO soy), and they're finding that everybody's getting sick. This article talked about 20-fold increase in Parkinson's disease, a 100-fold increase in autism in the last 20 years and 5-fold increase in fertility problems since 1972.  They had the same old thing happening there as is happening here (with health) and they're identifying the GMO soy as a potential candidate to explain it, so.... "

44:30 Patrick asks if China didn't just do something with the US and corn and she said "Yes, that's right, they turned back our corn .. they're wisening up.  I think they're going to be less 'vested' (interests) -- we've got Monsanto right here in the middle of our country, in Missouri, that's the headquarters.  So the US is really deeply, deeply entrenched in the Monsanto view of the world, so we're probably going to be the last country to finally recognize (officially) that this stuff is destroying our health.  So this doesn't bode well for our citizenry.  If you look at how autism is growing in this country, I can predict it is going to be half the kids born in 2025 will have autism.  That's not going to be a viable situation. I mean, I can't imagine what it will do to the school system and the burden on the families, I mean it's just mind boggling to me.  And we just seem to be complacent about it, which is just really surprising to me, you know?"  

45:23  They talk about the many people and entities not wanting to believe the evidence (the FDA, etc. "The idea that it's not safe is just such a huge problem and Monsanto is trying so hard to convince them it is ...."). Then go into New Hampshire and Vermont that were getting into the GMO issue.  California and Washington state tried SO HARD but there was so much lobby, she said.  "It's coming...." This is where she says 'either it goes away or we go away', after Patrick says 'what would  happen if this were to go away, could that happen' (essentially, I'm paraphrasing).  

She then brings up the reproduction rate, and once we get under 2.0 it's game over, we'll just shrink down to zero over time, AND why that would be is........ (47:30)

She says that she and Anthony have a new paper looking at manganese.  Glyconate chelates maganese. When you look at all the things that use manganese then you realize how this fits very well. 

The enzymes that use manganese are not working properly, and that's causing problems -- manganese is critical to reproduction because it's needed in building the flagella on the sperm that gives them mobility.

If they don't have enough manganese it affects the flagella and that affects mobility.  If sperm cannot move properly, that's a big problem and affects fertility. They swim ....The tail needs manganese to be produced. Glyphosate chelates the manganese and keeps it unavailable to the cells.

And manganese is working great for other things too, the mitochondria in the brain in autism and Alzheimers and all these brain diseases .... are the mitochondria under stress  -- they're the the organelles in the cells that make energy for the cells, so they are really important. And they are getting destroyed by oxidative damage. Well, it turns out that manganese is critically needed for the superoxide dismutase that protects them from oxidative damage, so that's another example for the manganese. 

And a third one is glutamate, and ammonia, which are found in high levels in the brain in association with a bunch of neurological diseases like autism and Alzheimers. And those guys, there is a manganese-dependent enzyme that converts glutamate to glutamine, and consumes ammonia, so if that enzyme isn't working then you get glutamate and ammonia built up in the brain and that's what you see.

So it's like it all makes sense. It's like it all makes sense in respect to manganese deficiency and then we can explain how glyphosate would cause manganese to be deficient because of it's chelation effects. 

49:30 - question in email from a woman wanting more information on what Dr Seneff said about anxiety. 

Lactobacillus really are critically dependent .. they use manganese as an oxidative defense, moreso than almost anything else. And so when manganese is deficient because it is  locked up  with glyphosate, then they get sick. Manganese is what actually disrupts this enzyme that messes up the shikimate pathway, and the lactobacillus also depend on the shikimate to produce those aromatic amino acids .  If you don't have your lactobacillus working, then you're going to have depletion in these things that are products that they produce.  And those depletions are going to cause disruptions of your brain. And so it's really that simple.  

So the glyphosate is killing off the lactobacillus and without the lactobacillus you get the anxiety because of all the fallout of all the things that the lactobacillus would do.

Another thing they do is protect you by keeping out these 'pathogens'.  They provide, in a sense, antibiotics that can kill the pathogens. So again, if they're not working, the pathogens are going to grow.  

51:00 Patrick asks -- if we could figure out how to eat really good, whole food, will the body figure this all out and self correct.  She says she is hopeful that the glyphosate won't stick around a long time in the body / bodies of people, which is something she's not sure of.   The problem is how to get rid of the glyoxylate damage that will accumulate, so that's the problem, how to get rid of the glyoxylate.  

Again, you have to bring in the fugus to consume the glyoxylate. But the glyphosate, if you stop taking/eating non-organic food, then I think the glyphosate will wash out of your system, and then your metals will start working properly again. And your liver will start working again, your liver gets messed up with all the cytokine 50/50 enzymes that can't produce bile acids.  And bile acids are really important for lots of things -- that's another thing, they're just discovering what bile acids do. And the liver can't detoxify other toxic chemicals in the environment because it needs these sipe enzymes to do that and everything else becomes more toxic if glyphosate is messing up the  sipe  enzymes.

So it's really quite a complex cascade tumbling down that happens in the context of this glyphosate exposure. 

52:22 Patrick notes that this takes it to a whole other level with 'messing with Mother Nature'. Everything's so intricately connected one thing happens then another.... 'then your brain goes wonky.. holy cow'.. She said 'I know ... you can't imagine that a little molecule like glyphosate can cause so much trouble, ya know?"  

Patrick then says "I guess it doesn't even matter if 'they know', whoever 'they' are, what it is doing with all this" -- it just matters that it is occurring.  And she responds that quite compelling evidence -- it's indirect evidence because people are not getting the funding to do the research they should be doing.  So you hang a lot on one thing. Example: you get a paper on goldfish and the goldfish liver and the enzymes that get suppressed by glyphosate, so you make a giant leap and say it's probably happening in the human liver as well.  You only have this one paper on goldfish to go on but that's all there is, so THEY can say you've only got that one paper so forget it .... One is a whole lot better than zero, ya know?! If that's all you've got, that's what you use. 

53:30 Patrick asks if there are many people around the world doing this kind of research. She answers "No, there are few ... it's a very small, really dedicated group. (and you hear a slight sigh from her at this point...) of people who have become aware and Don Huber .. we need to mention Don Huber because he's who turned me onto this whole thing, he's amazing .. he's in his 70s ....  Patrick interjects that they've had him on the show several times.  She says 'Yeah... he's wonderful and he gave a two hour talk and that's what changed my life because after that I just spent all my time working on glyphosate because it's so important."

54:00 they take another call ... Patrick is the name of the caller and his question is 'what comes first, the sulfer or the sulfate'?

She said that's a hard question to answer.  They're different forms of sulfur, sulfur oxydized versus reduced.  Sulfate is of course carrying oxygen and that's really imporant, she thinks .. it's sulfur plus four oxygens and it has a negative 2 charge, and so it's an oxydized form of sulfur. And so there are various ways the body can make sulfate from sulfur-containing molecules, such as cyctine or homocyctine .. or, or.... what's it called.... (she says her brain is blanking).. TAURINE ... I talked about taurine before and anyway, um, phyosulfate (sp?), that's the one I was thinking about ...   ... Patrick says he's taken that, sodium psylosulfate (sp?)  .. yeah, she says, that's the one we think is the precursor to sulfate synthesis in response to sunlight.  

Sulfate with an s  instead of an 'o' so it's incomplete and the second one is an s and should be an 'o', and you can take that sulfer off and turn it into a sulfate by oxydizing it, so you get two sulfates out of one biosulfate, I believe, through the sunlight can cause the biosulfate to turn into sulfate.  

Hydrogen sulfate gas is another one that is really interesting because it's poisonous but it's also essential in the blood. It has VERY interesting signaling molecules in the blood.  So, sulfur comes in all kinds of different shapes and forms, you can get sulfur from plants in these molecules that are quite interesting --- like in broccholi and garlic -- they have sulfur-containing, interesting molecules that have to be .. the sulfur has to be taken out and oxydized before it can work, but the body can do that.  

And then the sulfur - containing amino acids, cyctine and methionine and   homocystine .. MORE of them are available from meat sources / animal source than from plant sources so that's the reason that animal foods are good for you because it give you a better supply of these essential sulur-containing amino acids. And then you also have glutathione which is an incredibly important sulfur-containing molecule that the cells use for anti-oxidant defenses."

Patrick the caller says "it was a difficult question, I'm sorry" and she LAUGHS and says 'that was a difficult answer' as Patrick the interviewer says 'that's okay' as she goes on to say 'I've been studying all the different forms of sulfur.'  Patrick the caller says the reason he asked it, and said Patrick's listeners were helping to demonstrate this because when we put sulfer back in the diet of people they stop being sick. "Yes" Dr Seneff says.  And, he goes on, they spoke about this four years ago, about the pesticides and fertilizers that are robbing us of our minerals .. and, well .. THIS is the one they really robbed us of. 

"I think sulfur deficiency is huge in modern diseases", she says.  

Then he goes on to talk about her being at MIT so having her hair done, otherwise it wouldn't be white ... because if you put sulfur back in your diet, it would STOP being white.  

"I know, I know (as she laughs and volume goes up), you tell me that and I wonder if I've had sulfur deficiency for many years ... because I didn't 'wake up' to this until recently." Patrick (the interviewer) says 'Just dunk your head in the bathtub when you do your .... (epsom salt bath) " and the other Patrick interrupts and says 'Oh, stop it... " and they get his call off the line in order to wrap up the show and go on with his saying he didn't realize she had white hair and she's laughing and saying her hair will maybe turn back to having color again. 

How does the glyphosphates and the GMOs tie in with the whole 'gluten thing' we hear so much about, Patrick asks.  "Oh, yeah .. we did our first ... paper on gluten and then the second on gluten intolerance.  We really believe that the gluten intollerance that we're seeing today is epidemic of it, caused by a practice of spraying the wheat with glyphosate right before the harvest, and this is a relative new practice .. it's come up in the last few years. Three days before the harvest they spray the wheat with glyphosate essentially in order to kill it (the plant) -- it's not GMO wheat -- they're killing it with glyphosate in order to reduce the amount of residue that has to be cleared for the next year and also to get a head start on next year's weeds."

To clarify, this is NOT 'organic' wheat crop producers doing this, and then she goes over again how since the wheat is not GMO it is susceptible to the plant material being killed from the glyphosate -- that's the point, they want to kill it (the plant). They want to kill it and grab the harvest just before it (the wheat/seed/grain) die.  They've had a very short period of time between the spraying of the glyphosate and the harvesting, which means the glyphosate has gone into the seed (grain) and then gets into the wheat products and (that contributes to the gluten intolerance problem).  We have a whole paper on that and there's a LOT of evidence .. circumstantial evidence that links up glyphosate with the conditions that are associate with celiac disease." 

Patrick asks when they started this practice. She said they maybe figured it out 10 or 15 years ago but only sort of recently started to use it .. it's an idea someone had and it started gaining in popularity. So it's been REALLY gaining in popularity over the past few years because it looks like there's no downside (to the farmers/ producers) because they don't worry about glyphosate being poisonous because they don't think it is (to people). They look at it from the standpoint of making farming easier. 

So Patrick asks if you're even in a GMO labeling state if you're at risk for consuming a wheat product with this in it. So she then uses this to reinforce that 'you can't just go no-GMO, it's not enough, you have to go organic. She states she and her husband eat 100% organic. 

Patrick asks if there's any risk of cross contamination of grains and other vegetables with GMO and she said she'd not know.  He said we can put plastic over our gardens at home.  She laughed and said it's just really hard to find a place on Earth that is safe. He wraps up about the places around the world that are waking up and that the 'horse is out of the barn' now.  She's thinking so, she said.  He'd specifically said China, Russia, India, Sri Lanka and she'd said confirming she was aware of Sri Lanka but hadn't thought of that earlier in their discussion (above).  

"I have a lot of reason to hope ...  I may be in a bubble, but things look good to me, like the movement's in the right direction" ...  and they hopped off saying they'll do it again, they could probably do four hours on this. I hope my bringing the highlights of this ONE hour through my keyboard to your eyes to read over, study, re-read, contemplate and then ACT UPON is of value and benefits YOU. 

I've become a HUGE FAN of Dr Stephanie Seneff since learning of her in 2014.  My first exposure was with a video, and seeing that I've been 'growing my color out' for years now since becoming grey enough to do so, I thought, I'm always intrigued when I see someone who's not coloring their hair yet is in the public spotlight, as she is. It's a very controversial thing today, whether to let it go grey or keep coloring; it was the most popular topic at More Magazine in years past when I covered it on Lumigrate.  This interview ends with a conversation about her hair, which was initiated by a caller, who was a man.  

I found this interesting because in 2005 I had my photo taken when I got the 'gig' to provide the OT services in a large, allopathic medical building in Grand Junction, Colorado.  You live to get in front of the doctors for 10 minutes at their weekly staff meetings to talk about whatever it is that you can help their patients with that they're not aware of, or are not referring patients to.  Ten minutes, maybe once a year if you're lucky, you have to get your business boosted and so you need to make those minutes count.  In 2007 I was invited to talk with them about the fibromyalgia program that I'd collaborated about with the building's neuropsychologist.  YAY!

I was there on time, bells on my toes and all that --- and the first thing one of them (a male) said was 'your hair's different now than in your picture' and they started talking about where they or their spouses go to get their hair done.  SIGH.  There went 10% of my time, but we got to an even playing field of being PEOPLE who NOTICE what we SEE about other PEOPLE.  And then we went on. "And so it began", I should say.  

Within a year the building was seeming unfriendly about the weekly seminar series I was putting on for education for the providers if they came (none did) or the consumers in town (they did), which were at 4 pm or just after 6 pm (to catch the providers as they worked until 6 since the 4 pm meant not having revenue for two hours. Changing the time didn't change anything, the only providers who ever came were the ones who were speaking that week.  

And I was seeing that the next step for me was a website, and to get out of insurance-based 'mainstream' and I went to what I thought was 'outside the system' but it turned out the MD was not going to break that far away and didn't stick to what we'd all talked about with the new 'integrative' clinic, so by 2009 my offices were in a neighboring building and then across town in my home.  

And so it continues. I have continued to simplify my life, foregoing unnecessary expenses of time, energy and money and that has included coloring my hair. And many other things. My priority is keeping Lumigrate a 'clean' source of information for YOUsers, and I believe that the information Dr Seneff provides is just that! Clean. Unadulterated by funding strings.  

And so I hope YOU will take the time to get to know of her and of her research and consider investing some of your resources of time, energy (and no money involved directly) to get the information she and I are providing here.  Thanks to One Radio Network for the interview and please go to their site and look around.  They have products and you can donate to them to support their work.  I hope that I can help guide / drive people via links to their website as I think it's an incredibly interesting and quality website for 'radio' / audio learning, and they have articles too! 

It's hard to imagine today that a year ago I was unaware of Dr. Stephanie Seneff and the incredible work she has done through MIT as a researcher, today being at the rank of senior researcher. And as I usually do, I'm creating information with the people in mind who I've been interacting with in 1:1 conversations, in person or by phone, etc. in their process of going from where they were to where they are and will be going relative to their wellness journey (and that of their surrounding 'system' they are interconnected with in the home, etc.).  

In the past week I've been able to have a good smattering of a 20-something, a handfull of middle aged (50ish)(all women), and one 80-something (also a woman) helping me put things in perspective and see what the 'mindsets are' of people who I'd be recommending this topic to if able to be personally involved. I've also communicated with Dr Seneff, which was such an honor and pleasure. Perhaps I'll be able to get some feedback from her on this topic. If so, you can count on that I'll add it in, below.  

I have created many topics or comments that have included her information and you'll find them sprinkled around the forums at Lumigrate and with the Search bar can look for those if you're interested.  She's covering a LOT of ground related to biology and in this interview from May of 2014 at One Radio Network that I'm focusing on to start this topic, I enjoyed her bubbly interpretation of the intricacies of the biology that she's now into related to human health.  

Her background, if you look at her biography or vita, was working with how things communicate, and she's a computer scientist.  How things in the sea communicate was one thing I recall 'noticing' when looking into her background WHICH I suggest people do when they're studying a source.  However, that takes time and so I try to do that for YOUsers of Lumigrate in filtering who I link to and not.  My standards and 'filter' keep getting higher and finer as time goes on.  

Read on about Dr. Mercola and his website, below, things seemed to degenerate to a new level in recent years with his website. And so it goes. Nothing seems to stay the same, we have to keep 'fluid' and open minded and just keep our thinking caps on and our radars in the up position, so to speak, relative to WHAT SOURCES WE TURN TO for information.   

I recently was getting to work advising someone who, so far, appears to not "really 'get it' " how much they were at the top of my list of demographic to reach with my work: young people old enough to have the maturity to be realizing that the CHOICES THEY MAKE, and the choices their parents made, are at play TODAY impacting their day-to-day mental, physical, social, vocational and spiritual wellness levels .... and they have to WORK NOW on what they're putting in their bodies (and that includes topical toxins that get in through the skin outside and inside the body, the scalp, and also what they BREATHE in).

If they can get things turned around enough before it's time for them to reproduce, that's CRITICAL right now!  They increase their odds that the baby they help create, whether mother (XX chromasomes) or father (XY chromasomes), will be one of the 50% Dr Stephanie Seneff refers to in this interview WITHOUT autism in 2025 and not one one the other half that will have autism as part of their reality.  Yes, autism can be reversed but it's hard work.  Easier to get these young people before they reproduce, societally.  

And realistically they're less 'messed up' in some regards, than the people who raised them, and are more knowledgeable about how the world works in a lot of ways. They're more aware that you can't really believe what people tell you, they don't use mainstream media, but they effectively seem just as bewildered in how to find good information.  

I've seen them turn to Dr Google and go to the topmost thing that comes up and that's the only thing they look at when 'researching' something. I've seen people old enough to be their parents or grandparents do the same; and are they aware of 'disinformation sites', or how it works with websites and funding sources or other 'powers that be' effectively coercing what information is on the website?  

In some regards, some of the 80-somethings I've been talking with/working with individually seem to be closer to being on the right path in terms of being wary of the information, but it seems that when I look at a store like Natural Grocers and the shoppers, it's pretty across the board who's newly shopping there in terms of the generations.   

I've tried to focus my work with women and men of 'my generation', related to diet, and I've found that they're often just "too far gone".  The business advisors wanted to jump in immediately knowing that WOMEN are the driving force, that 'fibromyalgia' tended to be in middle aged women mostly, but I was seeing the trend rapidly shifting in 2007 even, of younger patients with CRPS/RSD or fibromyalgia diagnosed when they were in high school, leading to them being home schooled in some cases.  

The 21 year old males who were desiring to become real activists in the community in 2015 told me in 2014 that their biggest problem with making change in the world was their parents and their cohorts were not believing them (and thus supporting them, mentoring them, etc.) about what they were seeing as the way the world works -- they basically were 'awake' and their parents were not.  

Once the generations older than the young adults "get with the program" and start helping the movement, we'll have a powerful force that can create the change in the world that I think HAS to happen.  And I hear in this interview that Dr Seneff agrees.    

But in both generations, this is what I've seen in the last year in just two cases that stood out: They turn to Netflix for who to get their food information from relative to a documentary. So once again, follow the money, and who is behind the source that you spend your TIME and ENERGY (and money for the subscription) on.  This young adult maybe did the right thing for a 'next step' for them and used the subscription available to watch something about food rather than some other kind of show, and it was overall generally good information BUT when I looked at WHO was being INTERVIEWED, they were sources I'd not whole-heartedly trust. They're sources that I've heard or read are suspect, or I've observed on my own even, because I put so much time into my work about wellness for Lumigrate's YOUsers (and my own benefit too, naturally).  

Someone of my generation who still has children at home, one of which has significant issues which was the original reason for my getting involved, took forever (years, which has been very common in people with chronic pain and fatigue that I 'know' via Facebook, I noticed) to believe that foods were a factor and then the parents communally turned to Netflix instead of what I have at Lumigrate as suggestions of how to study and learn. They have not yet learned to respect how much skill there is in learning to pick out good health information sources and think they can DIY.  So they have to learn from their mistakes. And I've done the say, trust me. And I'm sure I'll always be getting it mostly right but sometimes not.  

So they, like the 20-something, watched a video about food/diet they picked out with who knows what kind of information guiding them, and then only watched that one thing, which somehow got to their emotions and then they acted upon that information.  Without even going to a Search engine and knowing how to search for the 'other side of the coin' information.

I thought of them when I listened to Dr Seneff's interview that I was taking the time to transcribe/overview write up here, because near the end she got into information about why animal sources of nutrients are more available and helpful to consume, in her opinion.  

And so I would hope that people who have children are going to do less watching of 'fun' movies and do more watching of, or listening to, videos with GOOD sources of information.  People who don't have a 'horse in the race', so to speak, who are really telling the facts and not twisting them for whatEVER reasons.  

I check in with people and get their updates and in their case said 'that's not what I'd have suggested and I don't think that's correct information for your situation' but I can only lead them to the water trough, I cannot make them drink.  May you have found the trough and had a good drink! 

Here are some more details of what has fueled this debate, this is from the Healthy Home Economist's blog, which is linked to, above, from within the farming women's blog. Sarah, the HHE, attended a presentation given by Dr Seneff, which they both have referred to.  And what went viral in late 2014 on Facebook and perhaps lead to the man I spoke with on Thanksgiving making it 100% at the bar area of an upscale restaurant able to hold a conversation about what's in wheat that's causing the health issues all the women were talking about. 

"According to Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT who has studied the issue in depth and who I recently saw present on the subject at a nutritional Conference in Indianapolis, desiccating non-organic wheat crops with glyphosate just before harvest came into vogue late in the 1990’s with the result that most of the non-organic wheat in the United States is now contaminated with it.  Seneff explains that when you expose wheat to a toxic chemical like glyphosate, it actually releases more seeds resulting in a slightly greater yield:   “It ‘goes to seed’ as it dies. At its last gasp, it releases the seed” says Dr. Seneff.

According to the US Department of Agriculture, as of 2012, 99% of durum wheat, 97% of spring wheat, and 61% of winter wheat has been treated with herbicides. This is an increase from 88% for durum wheat, 91% for spring wheat and 47% for winter wheat since 1998."

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