Guidelines For Minimizing The Effect Of Glyphosate In Your Life



First, consume crops grown on glyphosate-free soil wherever possible. If you make your own, never use pesticides unless they are certified for organic growing. If you buy locally grown foods, ask your farmer if Roundup has ever been used on her fields.

Second, avoid GMO foods if you can identify them. These foods have the highest concentrations of glyphosate because they are genetically modified to withstand direct spraying of the herbicides containing glyphosate as the active ingredient. The two most prevalent GMO crops in the U.S. are corn and soy. Look for companies who are willing to test their products for the presence of GMOs before selling them to the public, such as Tropical Traditions’ GMO-tested program.

However, realize that even non-GMO foods now contain glyphosate residue, and this even includes food certified organic. So if you are serious about eliminating all glyphosate from your diet (as everyone should!), it will take some work. Work directly with local farmers who are committed to glyphosate-free farming practices whenever possible. Tropical Traditions is also implementing a new glyphosate-tested program identifying high-risk food such as grains for testing, and labeling them once they test free of glyphosate.

With meats of all kinds, there are several aspects to be hoped for, including organic soils, non-GMO feeds and happy living conditions, raised as naturally as possible.

Improving Gut Bacteria: Managing the Microbiome

Care of gut bacteria is a whole current area of developing science. The health of our microbiome has recently been proven to literally change the way we think and feel.

There are indeed links from bacterial health to our brains.  Consuming healthy foods is a large part of the restorative measure. First prebiotics, then probiotics, is this order.




Eat food your culture will like when it arrives, then add live bacteria of the right mix.  Natural yogurts are famous for being the right culture, but there are doubts about surviving live bacteria.  Naturally fermented vegetables, combining the cabbage-mustard family and the onion family (sauerkraut, Kimchi) which have not been pasteurized, are hard to find unless you make them yourself, but they have four unique advantages:

  1. These foods have lots of organic sulfur, which has recently been found to be deficient in our diets. Sulfur eaten with flavenoids, such as carotenoids or turmeric, allows sunlight on your skin to combine cholesterol and vitamin D3 with sulfate, both of which help maintain healthy membranes (muscles and nerves).
  2. The culturing process makes the batch turn “sour”, and by the end-point most of the original bacteria die off from this acidity. This is why these ancient processes were invented: to preserve healthy food values without refrigeration. Although the live bacteria diminish, they leave behind acid-proof spores, able to survive a trip through your stomach acid, and ready to spring into action as soon as the pH rises (aka, they reach your small intestine).
  3. The fermented cabbage and onions are softened a lot in the fermentation process, but they are still very healthy roughage, able to make it through 90% of the digestive process to your lower gut, offering some protection to bacteria and providing surfaces on which those replacement bacterial spores can begin to grow.
  4. As we age, our digestive tracts may lack adequate stomach acid for some meals; regularly eating lacto-fermented products provides an acid mix around pH 3.5, and is able to help digest proteins in meat and legume dishes without becoming overly acidic.
Regular consumption of this natural nutrition system has worked for thousands of generations. Consuming lacto-fermented foods has also worked well for our local nutrition discussion group. It has helped people survive numerous courses of antibiotics taken for Lyme disease prevention, restoring normal flora with no major gut problems. We even recommend it to our physicians, who were recently frustrated by C. diff. infection cases resistant to big pharma’s famous antibiotics.

If you are suffering from C. diff., which today has become a common hospital infection which is resistant to most current antibiotics, consider fecal transplant. Fecal transplant from a healthy donor has been proven to completely cure people from C. diff., sometimes in one dose. See: The Most Effective Probiotic is Free but the FDA Wants to Ban It.

How can we be sure glyphosate is NOT included in our diet, when worldwide sales (totally unregulated) have exceeded 600 thousand tons per year?  Assume that you have too much glyphosate in your diet, and work hard at reducing your exposure, with the goal of eliminating it completely.

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