Hi, Dr. Minkoff here.
Can you imagine why we're in the situation we are now
with some worldwide epidemics
and I'm not gonna tell you what they are yet.
But I wanted to just take you through sort of a thought scenario.
What do you think would happen to our planet?
Meaning the soil.
The bacteria in the soil
which are the source of all life on this planet
because they make plants or they're nutrients for plants
and where the energy sources are.
That we are totally dependent on this ecosystem.
What do you think happens to this ecosystem,
that planet Earth is in the neighborhood of 5 billion years old,
if we would produce a major attack
on this very delicate earth,
loam,
soil structure,
to the point where it was under peril
to a very high degree?
In 2015
2 billion tons of the pesticide glyphosate,
that's Roundup,
was dumped on planet Earth.
Now, it's the same now,
but there's statistics for 2015.
2 billion tons per year
dumped on planet Earth
of a pesticide
which kills bacteria,
it kills cells.
it's carcinogenic,
and it's put onto the soil
all over the world.
Except in a few countries in Europe where it's outlawed,
but for sure in the United States, it's not outlawed.
You can't even put it on a label on a food.
Now, this is a big problem.
A Harvard researcher, Dr Stephanie Senoff
has written a very nice book on this which gives all the facts.
But if you start looking at, okay,
now the soil organisms are getting killed off.
Now the plants are being sprayed with this stuff
and it produces leaky poor membranes in the plant
so their root structure can't take up nutrients
the way it's supposed to take it up.
And then the plants don't get the minerals and vitamins
they need from the soil.
And they're poisoned with the pesticide.
And now our animals are eating that.
So, our cows and our chickens and our lambs,
and us are eating it.
And I don't know how many thousands
of pounds of corn that a cow eats
but believe me, he's gonna concentrate all that poison
in his body
and then when we eat it
we're gonna get it in our body
because his body does not really dispose of it.
It stays in his tissues
and when we eat those tissues, we're gonna get that stuff.
And what's it gonna do to our body?
Well, it rips holes in our intestinal membrane.
It is a poison.
It blocks the cell
from being able to make some essential amino acids.
It kills good gut bacteria
and the downside of this
is that if we look at our population over the last
30 years,
what we see is we have epidemics of autism.
I used to be a pediatrician
and when I was a pediatrician the incidence of autism
was basically, you'd never see one in your whole life
if you were a busy pediatrician seeing 50 kids a day.
I got told that by Dr. Bill Nihan
who was the chairman of the Department of Pediatrics
at the University of California San Diego
where I did my residency.
One day we had an autism patient in the clinic
and he came around to make rounds with us
and there was a little kid in there
and he said, "Make sure you go examine this kid
"when you're done with rounds today
"because you'll never see another one.
"This kid has autism."
This is 1978.
And he said,
"If you're a busy pediatrician and you see 40 kids a day
"5 days a week for 35 years,
"you won't see one because it's very rare."
Do you know that the incidents of autism now
is 1 in 36 live male births?
This is like the biggest catastrophe that's ever happened
to families, the school systems,
the future workforce.
It's a huge thing.
Now, I'm not saying that autism is caused only by glyphosate.
There's plenty other toxins to go around.
But I'm just looking at
glyphosate has had a huge impact on our ecosystem.
And now we look at, we've got autism.
1 in 10 kids have a ADD.
70% of those kids are on amphetamines.
If you do a SPECT scan,
which is a scan of the brain to look for
the effect of the brain on a medication.
That if you give someone an amphetamine, like Adderall
or methamphetamine,
that it looks identical as cocaine.
Giving this to 5 and 6 year-olds,
we know it shrinks their brain.
It kills their appetite.
It stunts their growth.
So, epidemic of autism, ADD, asthma,
allergies, pre-diabetes, obesity,
major depression
dementia,
cancer.
These things didn't exist 100 years ago.
They did not exist
or hardly.
Now, if you're in clinical medicine,
you're seeing this stuff.
This is what you're seeing.
And I think that it's related
to we're poisoning our planet.
And the major poison that's having the most effect that I can see
is glyphosate.
Now, there's plenty to go around
with cell phone radiation
and with plastics and with petrochemicals.
So, we are living in a sea of this stuff.
But this one is really poisoning our basic ecosystem,
which is our soil
and it's having a huge impact
and if we don't do something about it,
and it's very simple.
Don't buy non-organic food.
Don't buy GMO food.
Don't buy it.
If we can kill the business
by having people not buy it,
they will sell something else which is better.
And we have control over this.
So, almost all the corn in the store,
unless it's certified organic,
is GMO corn and it's got glyphosate.
Same with soybeans.
Same with wheat.
So, we have control as people
of controlling.
Why did Amazon buy Whole Foods?
Because lots of people are going to hold foods in they're shopping.
That's good!
So they support that.
So, I think if we can, as a population,
start to look at,
our days are numbered.
It might not be in my lifetime
but certainly my children and my grandchildren
are numbered if we don't turn this thing around.
And if we don't do something about it,
which is actively not patronize that stuff,
We can make an impact and we can help ourselves.
We can help our planet
and we can help our kids.
Okay?
Hope this helps.
