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Glyphosate and adrenal insufficiency

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Anhaga
Anhaga

There has been an article published that claims that a wellknown herbicide may be leading to potentially fatal adrenal insufficiency in humans.  Of course I can't post the link.  

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  • karen48559
    karen48559 Anhaga

    Posted

    Sacrey stuff. Although not permitted on growing crops in the UK, it can be used to weedkill land before planting, so theortically I suppose get into the food chain that way. 
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga karen48559

      Posted

      Unfortunately i live in North America where we do not have any labels on our food to tell us what is contaminated or genetically engineered.  We can eat organic as much as possible, but glyphosate is in the environment and impossible to avoid.  It could be just one more stressor, the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back.  I wonder if there are any studies showing whether there is a greater per capita prevalence of inflammatory diseases no than, say, twenty years ago?  Allowing for better diagnoses of course.
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga

      Posted

      now, not no!  Wish I could edit!

       

    • jeannae68307
      jeannae68307 Anhaga

      Posted

      Yes, there is research corroborating this.  Go to YouTube and listen to Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a brilliant research scientist from MIT researching this.  She has published much on the subject.
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga jeannae68307

      Posted

      I just looked her up and found an incredibly long transcript of an interview she did - very interesting!  
  • lodgerUK_NE
    lodgerUK_NE Anhaga

    Posted

    This was first published in 2013, if you google it their is load of stuff and some of it is contradictory.
  • EileenH
    EileenH Anhaga

    Posted

    Whether that is so or not it doesn't have a great deal to do with PMR and GCA - it has been suggested that there is a degree of adrenal insufficiency involved but closer examination does not find any evidence for it. It certainly isn't the case for all patients since most people recover from PMR, stop pred and have normal adrenal function.
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga EileenH

      Posted

      Thought that the adrenals were exhausted by stress, and this could be a contributing factor to the iniflammation.  Not that everyone will get pmr because they are stressed, nor that every stressed person will get pmr!  Adrenals could recover naturally as the body heals and stress is reduced?  
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga EileenH

      Posted

      Actually had an odd thing happen last night.  Amongst my various stressors is a landscaping nightmare, and when I awoke in the wee small hours I lay there in absolute panic that we were not doing things right.  And I wondered how that could happen: if the adrenals are the glands that produce the fight or flight hormones, and they are now shut down, shouldn't I be on a wonderful prednisone-induced even keel?
    • EileenH
      EileenH Anhaga

      Posted

      I'm sure there will be people who'd suggest that but I honestly don't think it is so. There isn't any evidence of it in general - but we are in a state of secondary adrenal insufficiency while we are on pred. There is plenty of corticosteroid so the ACTH that stimulates production of cortisol is suppressed - not because the adrenals CAN'T make it but because it simply isn't needed. It's the same as saying your heating boiler is broken when it simply isn't working because the house is warm enough.

      However - you may be on a dose that is enough for day to day but not enough to cover plain panic - and the adrenals can't produce more. The emotion of panic remains even if there is a some pred there. 

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