Glyphosate: THIS Again?

The Mineral Heist Happening Under Your Nose

TL;DR

• A presidential executive order just designated glyphosate production a national security priority — which means the "you could drink a quart of it" crowd is about to get very loud again. On February 9th, Dr. Robert Malone posted a publicly accessible list of 109 peer-reviewed studies documenting glyphosate's measurable harm to human biology. We'll show you how to find them.
• Glyphosate was originally developed and patented as a pipe-cleaning chelator — a compound used industrially to strip mineral deposits from metal pipes. It behaves the same way inside your body, binding and stripping essential minerals including iron, manganese, zinc, copper, cobalt, molybdenum, calcium, and magnesium. The toxic metals — mercury, cadmium, lead, aluminum — it leaves completely alone.
• In the United States, glyphosate isn't only used to kill weeds. It's routinely sprayed on wheat, oats, barley, lentils, peas, and chickpeas just before harvest as a desiccant — to accelerate crop drying. The highest possible residue load lands in your food at the final stage of growth, right before it reaches your kitchen. This practice accounts for only about 2% of total glyphosate use, but over 50% of your dietary exposure.
• Dr. Jack Kruse's recent work traces a mechanism most glyphosate conversations never reach: melanin — your body's native heavy-metal chelating system — requires intact tyrosinase pathways and adequate UV light to function. Glyphosate inhibits tyrosinase. When melanin can't work, the metals your body should be clearing stay in your tissues instead.
• These two failures compound each other relentlessly. Glyphosate depletes the minerals your detox enzymes require. At the same time, it disables the light-activated metal clearance system. The toxic load doesn't seep in slowly — it accumulates in layers, silently, across years.
• Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) catches this pattern even in people eating clean — low essentials, elevated toxics, adrenal markers that look like chronic stress because, at the cellular level, that's exactly what they are. The exposure isn't only dietary. It moves through water, air, and soil.

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Anxiety shows up without a reason — not before a meeting, not about anything specific, just there, humming in the background.

You've cleaned up your diet but the weight still sits stubbornly around your midsection, your hips, your thighs.

Your mood feels like a dial someone else is turning.

Your libido has gone quiet.

Women: Your period is unpredictable — heavier some months, barely there others?

Still, you've been told your labs are normal. You've been told you're fine.

What if the problem isn't you, and it isn't your discipline, and it isn't your diet? What if something is systematically pulling the minerals your body runs on — the raw materials behind your energy, your hormones, your nervous system, your sleep, your cognitive function — and replacing them with nothing?

That's what this installment is about. And before we're done, we're going to look at things you can do about it. A few things to keep in mind as you read:

→ The minerals glyphosate depletes are the same ones that govern sleep, mood, hormone production, nerve signaling, and detox capacity

→ Supplementing the wrong minerals in the wrong ratios can create new imbalances while doing nothing for the real ones

→ There's an inexpensive test that maps exactly where your system is being drained

If you were here for the last installment, we were staring up at the sky — geoengineering, aerial metals, the environmental inputs compounding everyone's toxic load regardless of how carefully they eat.

This time, we'll stay on the ground. In your food. In your water. In your body.

When "National Security" Means Protecting a Poison

President Trump signed an executive order this month designating glyphosate production a national security priority, citing dependence on foreign supply chains as a vulnerability. You can read the full order here.

Secretary Kennedy's response on X was long, and in places honest. He acknowledged that pesticides and herbicides are "toxic by design, engineered to kill living organisms." He noted that Monsanto and Bayer have paid "tens of billions of dollars to settle cancer claims" while agricultural communities show elevated cancer and chronic disease rates. He pledged a transition toward regenerative agriculture, laser-guided weed control, and a phase-out of pre-harvest desiccation.

But the immunity language buried in the executive order told a different story. Attorney Tom Renz read it plainly on X:

"Trump provided what will effectively be immunity for pesticide makers that are knowingly poisoning people. These companies knew the dangers of glyphosate for decades but hid them. Now the President is making it far more difficult for injured people to have their medical bills paid... This is a bad move — a favor to horrible corporations like Bayer — at the expense of regular people."

Anna Matson cut to the practical demand: farmers can use glyphosate, but at minimum they should be warned it could kill them and the people who live near their fields and eat their food.

Toby Rogers went further still, pointing out that the real alternative to Roundup isn't laser weeders — it's permaculture, crop rotation, and planting complementary species that naturally suppress weeds.

Forty years of diversified farm trials show yields from regenerative farming can match chemical agriculture. The ability to farm without glyphosate has never been in question. The incentives have.

Misaligned Incentives

And here's where this connects to something Bitcoiners feel in their bones. Sound money aligns incentives.

Fiat money, by design, requires a winner and a loser — because the value has to come from somewhere, and it always comes from someone who didn't consent to the transfer.

The glyphosate system runs on the exact same logic. Bayer and Monsanto's profits require that the liability for harm land somewhere other than their balance sheet. That somewhere is farmers' bodies, rural cancer clusters, and your mineral stores. The immunity language in Trump's executive order didn't create this arrangement — it just put it in writing. When government backstops corporate liability, the losses don't disappear. They get distributed to everyone who didn't have a lawyer in the room when the policy was written.

In every system built this way, the losers are never hard to identify. It's never the people whose lobbyists wrote the language. Sound money fixes the incentive layer of civilization. It doesn't automatically fix the food system — but it does give you the correct framework for understanding why the food system works the way it does, and who benefits from your not asking questions.

Here's what happens next in the news cycle, predictably. With glyphosate wearing a national security badge, the industry consultants return. The think-tank spokespeople. The morning show segments where someone with impressive credentials assures you the science is settled.

Someone will resurface the Patrick Moore clip — a PR consultant for the chemical industry who told a French journalist on camera that you could drink a full quart of Roundup with no harm. When the journalist offered to fetch him a glass, Moore declined.

The Beef Initiative (@beefinitiative) posted one of the more practically grounded responses to the executive order: a structured 3–5 year transition plan away from chemical agriculture that doesn't require a shock to the food system. Their point was that the logistical argument for glyphosate dependency — that farmers simply can't survive without it — is a manufactured constraint, not a natural one. The infrastructure that made chemical agriculture the default was built deliberately, financed deliberately, and can be unwound deliberately. The plan exists. The will is what's being manufactured against.

109 PAPERS. THEY'RE ALL PUBLIC. GO LOOK.

On February 9th, Dr. Robert Malone posted a numbered list of 109 peer-reviewed, published studies on glyphosate's effects on human health. Not opinion pieces. Not industry-funded reassurances. Studies — published in journals including Nature Reviews Neurology, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, PNAS, Frontiers in Nutrition, and Science of the Total Environment.

His post is publicly accessible on X even without an account. Search "Robert Malone 109 glyphosate studies" on X or go directly to his profile at x.com/RWMaloneMD and find his February 9th post. He published the entire bibliography in the post itself, so you can take any study title and search it on PubMed (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) or Google Scholar to read the abstracts and, in many cases, the full papers at no cost.

What those 109 studies document: non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Neurotoxicity. Oxidative stress. Mitochondrial dysfunction. Epigenetic inheritance of disease across generations. Autism-spectrum behaviors in the offspring of exposed mothers. Endocrine disruption. Kidney impairment. Fatty liver disease. Disrupted iron homeostasis.

One from 2021 is particularly relevant here: Grundler and colleagues, published in Frontiers in Nutrition, showed that extended fasting measurably reduced both glyphosate and heavy metals in urine and hair simultaneously. This isn't a fasting protocol recommendation — it's proof of a mechanism. Given rest and unimpeded detox pathways, the body starts moving these things out. Which tells you two things: they're in there, and the biological machinery to clear them still exists.

Your Overnight Oats Are Having A Worse Morning Than You Are: The Pre-Harvest Desiccant Story

Most people know glyphosate as a weed killer. The industry's longstanding safety argument rests on the fact that the biochemical pathway it disrupts in plants — called the shikimate pathway — doesn't exist in mammals. We'll come back to why that argument is incomplete. But first, the part of the story that almost never gets told.

In the weeks before harvest, farmers in the U.S. and Canada routinely spray glyphosate directly on food crops — wheat, oats, barley, lentils, peas, flax, chickpeas — not to kill weeds, but to kill the crop itself and force uniform drying. The plant absorbs the chemical in its final stage of growth, at peak seed development, right before harvest. The practice began in Scotland in the 1980s when farmers struggled to dry wheat and barley evenly before the short northern growing season closed. It spread because it's cheaper than registered desiccants and accelerates harvest by up to two weeks.

Agricultural economist Chuck Benbrook — whom Nicole Shanahan interviewed specifically on this topic for her podcast Back to the People calculated that pre-harvest desiccation represents only about 2% of total glyphosate application in agriculture, but accounts for over 50% of your dietary exposure to the chemical. To make the practice legal at the scale it reached, Monsanto had to petition the EPA in the 1990s to raise the allowable glyphosate tolerance levels in wheat, oats, and edible beans by tenfold. That petition moved quietly, with essentially no public attention.

As one grain miller put it in a trade interview:

"I have talked with millers of conventionally produced grain and they all agree it's very difficult to source oats, wheat, flax and triticale which have not been sprayed with glyphosate prior to harvest. It's a 'don't ask, don't tell policy' in the industry."

In Manitoba, Canada's third-largest wheat-producing province, an estimated 90 to 95 percent of wheat acres are sprayed pre-harvest with glyphosate. (Source: https://non-gmoreport.com/articles/days-are-numbered-for-pre-harvest-use-of-glyphosate/)

RFK Jr., when running for president in 2024, specifically pledged to ban glyphosate's use as a desiccant on wheat if elected — calling it one of the likely culprits in America's chronic disease epidemic. He is now defending the executive order that protects its manufacturers from liability. That is a notable distance to travel in a short time.

A Note On "Organic" Protein Powders

USDA Organic rules prohibit the direct application of glyphosate on certified organic crops, including as a desiccant. So organic pea protein cannot be intentionally sprayed with glyphosate and legally carry the seal.

But here's what should concern you anyway. The Detox Project and Mamavation, running a multi-year testing program on best-selling organic pea protein products, found glyphosate contamination in products that had no business containing it. The USDA itself confirmed glyphosate residues on organic chickpeas from a Harris Teeter store brand — tracked back to a certified organic supplier — and required that supplier to modify practices to prevent "cross-contamination." (Source: https://www.supplysidefbj.com/food-beverage-regulations/usda-confirms-glyphosate-residues-on-organic-chickpeas)

There was also a documented loophole for hydroponic operations, through which glyphosate could be sprayed just before organic certification was filed — an opening eventually closed after sustained advocacy pressure. The broader point stands: USDA Organic is a process-based certification. It verifies farming methods. It does not test the final product. The EU's organic label requires pesticide testing. The U.S. doesn't. As The Detox Project's director put it: "It's a hole in the fence — but there's not enough pressure yet to fill the hole."

The only label that actually verifies a clean product is the Glyphosate Residue Free certification from The Detox Project which tests to parts per trillion detection limits. Organic alone is a meaningful step. It is not verification.

A Pipe Router In Your Biochemistry

Jessica Rose posted a thread on X on February 18th that strips the science down to something anyone can track. Glyphosate's chemistry didn't begin in agriculture. Stauffer Chemical Co. patented it in 1964 as a chelating agent — a pipe descaler, used industrially to grab mineral deposits and pull them off metal surfaces. Monsanto licensed the chemistry and repurposed it as a herbicide a decade later.

The mechanism it was originally patented for never went away. Inside your body, glyphosate grabs minerals the same way it grabs mineral deposits in pipes.

Specifically, it binds: iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), molybdenum (Mo), calcium (Ca), and magnesium (Mg).

Each one of those minerals has a job, or several hundred jobs, inside you. Magnesium alone is a cofactor for over 300 enzymatic reactions — energy production, nerve signaling, muscle relaxation, DNA repair. Zinc governs immune function, testosterone production, wound healing, and the synthesis of neurotransmitters including serotonin and dopamine. Manganese runs the antioxidant enzyme that protects your neurons from the oxidative wear-and-tear of normal brain activity — think of it as the maintenance crew that cleans up after every thought you have. Without enough manganese, that cleanup stops happening and the damage accumulates. Calcium doesn't just hold your bones together — it's the electrical signal that tells your neurons to fire and your heart to beat. Copper drives the mitochondrial enzyme chain that converts food into usable energy.

Pull those minerals out of circulation — not all at once, but gradually, daily, across years of eating a food supply soaked in a pipe-cleaning chemical — and every system downstream of those cofactors starts running ragged. Your energy flags. Your hormones drift. Your mood becomes unreliable. Your sleep frays at the edges. And because the depletion is gradual and the standard labs don't measure tissue stores, you get told everything looks fine while the slow drain continues.

Exactly. Mercury, cadmium, lead, aluminum — the metals that accumulate in tissues and progressively damage your mitochondria, your nerves, and your hormonal system — glyphosate does nothing to them. Worse, by stripping the minerals your detox enzymes depend on, it actively makes it harder for your body to clear the toxic metals on its own. The enzyme glutathione — your liver's primary detox molecule — requires magnesium and zinc to synthesize. Strip those, and the machine that should be moving mercury and lead out of your tissues slows down or stops.

Your body is getting emptied of what it needs, and filled with what it can't clear. At the same time.

Gen Belisarius (@GenBelisarius) put the dose question in stark terms on X: the EPA chronic reference dose is 1.75 mg/kg/day. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is 1 mg/kg/day. Chronic harm has been documented at one twenty-fifth of a single drop of water per day — sustained over a lifetime. The "quart of Roundup" argument Patrick Moore wouldn't test on himself isn't just wrong. It's not even close to the right framing for how this works.

The Soil Story Nobody is Talking About

Dr. Henry Ealy raised something in his response to Kennedy's thread that most of the conversation skips entirely — and it reframes how you think about buying organic.

Geoengineered aerosols, as covered in the last installment, deposit substantial amounts of aluminum into topsoil. High aluminum in soil drives fungal overgrowth responsible for an estimated 14% of annual global crop loss. When you add glyphosate to that same soil, it kills the mycorrhizal networks — the beneficial fungal root systems that help plants pull minerals out of the ground — while simultaneously binding the copper that plants need for their own metabolism.

Mycorrhizal networks are the actual mechanism by which plants access minerals in soil. Destroy them and the plant grows in the right field but absorbs a depleted version of what that soil was supposed to provide. The food that reaches you has fewer minerals than the label implies, because the soil's delivery system was chemically dismantled before the plant could use it.

This is a big part of why HTMA results on people who consider themselves metabolically rigorous — organic diet, filtered water, grass-fed meat, supplement stacks — still frequently show the glyphosate mineral fingerprint. Atmospheric drift deposits residue on organic fields. Irrigation water in agricultural regions carries it. Prior-year conventional applications persist in soil past certification timelines. You can make excellent sourcing decisions and still be running low on zinc and manganese, because the food chain upstream of your kitchen has been progressively stripped.

Shikimate Shysters

A separate line of research — primarily the work of Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a researcher at MIT who has studied glyphosate's biological mechanisms for over a decade — established that the "mammals don't have the shikimate pathway" defense misses a critical piece: your gut bacteria do have it. Seneff's research, published in peer-reviewed journals since 2013, documents how glyphosate selectively destroys the bacterial populations in your intestinal tract that produce tryptophan metabolites, serotonin precursors, and the short-chain fatty acids your gut lining depends on for structural integrity.

When those bacterial populations are chronically disrupted, your gut becomes simultaneously more permeable and less capable of absorbing the minerals the food you eat is supposed to deliver. Gut dysbiosis from glyphosate compounds every other problem this newsletter has described — an already-depleted food supply passing through an already-damaged gut, being absorbed by a mineral-starved body whose detox chemistry is running on fumes.

Jack Kruse's Thesis: Glyphosate as a Saboteur of Your Body's Own Metal Cleanup System

Here's where the story goes somewhere most glyphosate discussions in the functional medicine world never find.

Dr. Jack Kruse — neurosurgeon, biophysics researcher, and vocal presence in the Bitcoin health community — has spent years building a model of human biology that puts light, not calories or supplements, at the center of the picture. His recent Patreon blogs (CPC #78 and #79) brought glyphosate into that framework in a way that changes how you think about detoxification entirely.

The core of his thesis starts with melanin. Most people think of melanin as the pigment that determines skin color and causes tanning. That's the part most people learn in school. But the pigment job is almost incidental to what melanin actually does at the cellular level.

The specific form of melanin relevant here is eumelanin — the dark pigment found in skin, hair, eyes, and several areas of the brain. Eumelanin is what materials scientists call a broadband semiconductor. In practical terms, this means it can absorb light across a remarkably wide range of frequencies — from ultraviolet all the way through infrared — and convert that light energy into biological work. You can think of it as a solar panel that's been running detox chemistry in your skin since before you were born. Unlike most pigments that absorb light and release it as heat, eumelanin puts that absorbed energy to use in electrochemical reactions that keep your cells in balance.

One of the jobs that chemistry does is chelate heavy metals — meaning it captures them and prepares them for removal from the body. When UV light strikes melanin in your skin, it triggers a reaction that converts toxic metal ions from their charged, biologically disruptive forms into neutral forms that can be packaged and cleared through your urine, sweat, and bile. Mercury, for example, exists in your tissues as Hg²⁺ — a positively charged ion that sticks to proteins and disrupts cellular function wherever it lands. Melanin, activated by UV light, reduces it to elemental mercury (Hg⁰) — a neutral form your kidneys can filter and your sweat glands can eliminate. The same process works on lead, cadmium, and excess copper and iron.

Put another way: your skin, in sunlight, is running a metal recycling operation that your body evolved over millions of years. Every time you step outside into morning UV light, your melanin is doing quiet chemistry that removes things that would otherwise accumulate and damage you. This is not a supplement. It cannot be replicated in a pill. It requires light on skin.

This system connects to a cascade of other biological signals — a photoreceptor in your skin and eyes called Neuropsin (OPN5) that responds to 380nm UV-A light, hormone signals from a brain pathway called POMC/alpha-MSH, your body's master circadian clock, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), and the excretion routes — skin and gut — that flush out whatever melanin has captured.

Now. What does glyphosate do to this system?

Glyphosate inhibits an enzyme called tyrosinase. Tyrosinase is the enzyme that converts the amino acid tyrosine into the precursors your body uses to build and maintain melanin. No functional tyrosinase, no melanin production. And when melanin production is chronically suppressed — day after day, through a food supply saturated in a compound that shuts down the enzyme that makes it — your melanin scaffold gradually deteriorates. The UV-activated metal clearance system goes quiet. The metals that melanin would have captured and neutralized stay in your tissues instead.

Kruse posted on February 22nd specifically about what this means for women after menopause: for decades, the female body uses the menstrual cycle to offload excess iron — a monthly clearing mechanism. When that cycle ends, that exit valve closes. Iron starts accumulating in tissues. If melanin has been compromised — by glyphosate, by chronic indoor living, by years without adequate UV exposure — it can no longer manage that accumulating iron. Free iron in tissues generates a cascade of oxidative damage — the chemical equivalent of rust forming inside your cells — that accelerates mitochondrial deterioration across every organ.

This is part of why post-menopausal women so often carry a symptom cluster — fatigue, brain fog, weight gain in specific areas, mood changes, declining libido, sleep disruption — that hormone replacement doesn't fully address. The hormones are involved. But the upstream driver may be years of accumulated metal burden and mineral depletion that no estrogen patch touches.

To understand why Kruse spends as much time on the institutional history of glyphosate as he does on the biochemistry, you have to follow the board seats.

His Patreon research traces a web of interlocking directorates that connected the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto, and Chase Manhattan Bank — which was led by David Rockefeller himself — through the same mid-century financial circles that shaped both American agriculture policy and covert government research. Directors of Monsanto and major pharmaceutical firms like Upjohn frequently shared board seats at Chase Manhattan and at the Rockefeller Foundation, and those same circles funded the early DARPA programs of the 1950s through 1990s.

The Foundation's specific interest in Monsanto, according to Kruse's research, went beyond agriculture. He writes that by the late 1960s, the Foundation's portfolio was heavily weighted toward companies essential to industrializing global agriculture, and that they were specifically interested in Monsanto's Roundup "because of its metal chelating abilities and how it affects human melanin biology." This was, in Kruse's framing, not incidental. The MKULTRA program — funded through Rockefeller channels and run through DARPA — had already established that disrupting the body's light-processing and melanin biology was a viable mechanism for population-scale neurological and behavioral alteration. Roundup, in this reading, wasn't just a profitable herbicide. It was a tool whose biological effects on melanin were understood before it was ever sprayed on a wheat field.

The title of his Patreon post is blunt about it: "CPC #79: NAZI MKULTRA PROGRAM & CHARITY HOSPITAL BOXES MEETS ROCKEFELLER GLP-1 MEDICINE." Kruse is not speaking metaphorically.

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Dr. Henry Ealy made the corporate lineage even more explicit in his response to Kennedy's thread on X, calling Bayer-Monsanto "aka IG Farben aka Nazi Germany" — a reference to the fact that the chemical conglomerate IG Farben, which produced Zyklon B during World War II and conducted chemical weapons research for the Nazi military, was broken up after the war into constituent companies that included Bayer. The organophosphate nerve agent research that IG Farben and affiliated German chemists conducted in the 1930s and 40s — producing sarin, VX, and related compounds — became the scientific foundation from which the organophosphonate class of chemicals, including glyphosate, was later developed. The phosphorus backbone is the same family of chemistry. This is not a fringe claim or a metaphor. It is the documented chemical lineage of the compound now designated a U.S. national security asset.

On the history of the compound itself: a publicly available documentary, brought to you by Health Ranger and Bright Videos, on glyphosate and its detoxification — independent of Kruse's work and viewable here — covers the chemistry lineage explicitly. Researchers interviewed in the film describe glyphosate as emerging from the same organophosphate nerve agent research, including work on sarin and VX, that was developed in the 1930s and 40s. Their framing: "It's essentially a nerve agent for plants. And that's why it causes so much cancer and other health problems."

What This Actually Looks Like in a Body

The array of symptoms we started this newsletter with aren't a random collection. They trace directly to the mineral depletion and metal accumulation pattern glyphosate produces. Here's the translation from biochemistry to lived experience.

Neurological and Psychiatric: brain fog, depression, anxiety without a clear cause, difficulty concentrating, early-onset memory problems, tremors in older adults

Think of calcium and zinc as the electrical infrastructure of your nervous system — they regulate how signals pass between neurons and how neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and GABA get released into the gap between nerve cells. When those minerals run low, neural communication becomes erratic. It's like a phone connection that keeps dropping. Signals don't transmit cleanly, conversations get cut short, and the brain has to work harder for the same output — which shows up as mental fatigue and difficulty tracking complex thoughts.

Meanwhile, manganese is the essential ingredient in an antioxidant enzyme called superoxide dismutase, which is essentially your brain's cleaning crew — the mechanism that neutralizes the oxidative byproducts of normal neurological activity. Without adequate manganese, that daily cleanup stops happening. Damage accumulates in neurons that would normally have been protected.

Jessica Rose's thread captured the downstream consequence clearly: impaired calcium signaling at the synapse sets the stage for Parkinson's-like tremors, Alzheimer's-like memory deterioration, and epileptic-type electrical instability in the brain. What she calls "all these weird psychiatric conditions humans seem to be acquiring" may be, at their biochemical root, conditions of mineral starvation that we've been treating with pharmaceuticals.

Hormonal and Reproductive: irregular periods, worsening PMS, breast tenderness, weight gain around the hips and thighs, declining libido, erectile dysfunction in men, mood that tracks hormonal cycles in unpredictable ways

Glyphosate binds to estrogen receptor sites in breast and prostate tissue in a way that mimics the hormone itself — triggering estrogenic responses in tissues at times and in concentrations they're not designed to handle. In men, this disrupts sperm production and suppresses testosterone. In women, it amplifies estrogen-dominant patterns that drive the symptom cluster above.

Metabolically: blood sugar instability, fatty liver, kidney function decline, insulin resistance that persists on a clean diet

Multiple large population studies using NHANES data — the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which tracks health measures across a representative sample of American adults over time — have found direct correlations between glyphosate detected in urine and elevated blood sugar markers, liver fat accumulation, and kidney function decline. These are associations found in the general population eating a normal American diet. They are not confined to farm workers or people with known heavy chemical exposure.

Physically: muscle weakness, reduced grip strength, joint pain that doesn't resolve

A 2024 study found significant associations between measurable glyphosate in urine and reduced grip strength and functional limitations in people in their forties and fifties. This isn't occupational exposure showing up in these results. It's dietary.

Generationally: this one requires a moment

Kubsad and colleagues published a 2019 study in Scientific Reports documenting something that the "low dose, safe exposure" framing for glyphosate was never designed to account for. Glyphosate causes changes to the chemical tags on sperm DNA — not mutations to the DNA sequence itself, but alterations to the regulatory layer on top of it that controls which genes get expressed and when. These regulatory tags are called epigenetic marks, and they act like volume controls on genetic activity: turn certain genes up, others down, switch some entirely on or off. The finding was that glyphosate-induced changes to these controls in the sperm of exposed animals were inherited by the next generation of offspring — offspring who were never themselves exposed to glyphosate. Their sperm carried the altered patterns too.

In plain language: the biological consequences of your glyphosate exposure may not be confined to your body. The regulatory layer that controls how your genes behave can apparently be altered by this chemical and passed on to children who never encountered the chemical directly. The damage has a generational echo.

The Clean Diet That Still Isn't Enough

Going organic reduces your dietary glyphosate exposure meaningfully — research estimates a 60–80% reduction in what's coming through food. That's real and worth doing.

But the exposure doesn't end at the grocery store.

Atmospheric drift from neighboring conventional farms deposits glyphosate residue on organic fields. Irrigation water in agricultural regions carries it regardless of what certification a farm holds. Soil that was treated conventionally for years retains it past the certification transition period. And the mineral-depleted food that results from destroyed mycorrhizal networks is a problem even when the certification is genuine and strictly followed.

This is why HTMA results on people eating organic, grass-fed, filtered water, and a full supplement stack still frequently show the mineral fingerprint of chronic glyphosate exposure.

In a separate Canadian documentary called Epiphany, produced by Truehope (truehopecanada.com), researchers and patients document cases of severe psychiatric conditions — including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and treatment-resistant depression — that were reversed through targeted mineral supplementation. Not pharmaceuticals. Minerals. The same minerals glyphosate depletes. The reversal rates documented are not anecdotal. They suggest that a significant portion of what we call psychiatric illness may have a mineral deficiency at its root — and that medicine has been reaching for a drug when the answer was replacing what was being stolen.

Why Your Doctor's Labs Won't See This

NHANES — the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey — is the large-scale U.S. population health tracking program that measures everything from blood pressure to pesticide exposure across a nationally representative sample of Americans and follows them over years. When researchers say "NHANES data links glyphosate to kidney disease" or "NHANES data connects glyphosate to elevated blood sugar," they mean statistically significant patterns found across thousands of actual American adults eating normal American food. Not a controlled lab experiment. Real-world population data. The associations documented there are not subtle.

Standard blood panels will not surface what that data is pointing toward in your individual body.

A serum magnesium test measures what's in your bloodstream right now. Your body maintains blood magnesium within a narrow range as a survival priority, borrowing from bone and soft tissue to do it. You can have severely depleted tissue stores and return a "normal" blood magnesium — because the test is measuring what your body sacrificed other things to maintain, not what's actually available at the cellular level. Same logic applies to zinc, calcium, copper, and manganese.

A methylation panel won't surface glyphosate's mineral-binding fingerprint. A comprehensive metabolic panel is measuring a completely different set of things.

HTMA measures what's actually stored in tissue over 90 days. In the same way that the Bitcoin blockchain records the full history of transactions rather than just what's currently sitting in a wallet, HTMA gives you the metabolic ledger — the accumulated record of what your body has been storing, depleting, and failing to excrete — in a single test that costs less than most people spend on supplements in a month without knowing whether they need them.

Where To Start

The information above can feel like a lot. Here are the practical priorities, roughly in order of leverage:

• Run the test first. Everything else follows from what your specific HTMA shows. Supplementing blindly without knowing your ratios can create new imbalances while appearing to address old ones. Zinc suppresses copper. Calcium competes with magnesium. The minerals interact, and without your data you're guessing with money and your health.
• Get morning UV before the screen comes on. The 380nm UV-A that activates the melanin chelation process described above is available in outdoor sunlight within the first hour or two after sunrise — not intense enough to burn, more than enough to trigger the metal clearance cascade glyphosate is working against. Ten to twenty minutes of skin and eye exposure (ambient light, not staring at the sun) before your phone comes on. This costs nothing and no supplement replaces what it does.
• Prioritize glycine-rich foods. Bone broth, and slow-braised, collagen-rich cuts — oxtail, beef shank, short ribs, brisket — cook down over low heat into gelatin and free glycine. This matters because glyphosate structurally mimics glycine in biological systems and competes with it for binding sites. Giving your body abundant actual glycine is a meaningful counter.
• Use binders deliberately. Activated charcoal and bentonite clay — taken well away from meals and any supplements — support the gut as an excretion route for sequestered metals and toxins. The gut is one of the primary channels through which captured metals eventually leave the body. Keeping it moving and intact keeps that exit open.
• Source the highest-risk crops deliberately. Wheat, oats, barley, lentils, peas, and chickpeas are the crops most commonly desiccated pre-harvest. For protein powders specifically: look for the Glyphosate Residue Free certification from The Detox Project, not just the USDA Organic seal.
• Filter your drinking water. Glyphosate shows up in municipal water supplies. A solid carbon block filter removes it. Reverse osmosis removes it more completely — just remineralize after, since RO strips minerals along with contaminants.
• Retest at 90 days. Reversal is documented and real. But it needs to be measured rather than felt and assumed.

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A Final Word on the Politics of This

What's happening with glyphosate is not a separate story from what's happened in finance, medicine, and every other domain where institutional capture meets public health. The Kennedy thread is a useful study in the limits of working inside a system that requires your compliance: a person who knows the harm, says the harm, and still provides political cover for its continuation under a "transition" timeline controlled by the people profiting from the delay.

The immunity language in the executive order is not a bureaucratic footnote. It means injured farmers and their families have fewer legal paths to hold accountable the companies that poisoned them knowingly. Tom Renz called it accurately: this was a favor to corporations at the expense of people.

The same playbook that built monetary capture built this. The institutions that told you debt was wealth are the same institutions that funded the studies claiming Roundup was safe, placed the approving regulators in the agencies that were supposed to protect you, and are now handing legal immunity to companies that have paid out tens of billions in cancer settlements while insisting the product is harmless.

You saw through the financial version of this. The same instinct applies here — directly, without modification.

Your body is running on minerals that a pipe-cleaning compound is stripping out of your food supply while the regulatory apparatus waves it through. 109 peer-reviewed studies document the harm. The mechanism is understood. The test to see what's happening in your specific body exists, costs $225, and can be started today.

Don't wait for the consensus to catch up to what the data has been saying for years.

SOURCES & REFERENCES

Robert W. Malone, MD — February 9, 2026 public post on X — 109 peer-reviewed studies on glyphosate toxicity (searchable at pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Chuck Benbrook / Nicole Shanahan — Back to the People podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4hGkDrWLOKQE9PaX2sWsIR

Trump Executive Order (February 2026): https://whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/promoting-the-national-defense-by-ensuring-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides/

EcoWatch / Benbrook desiccant analysis: https://www.ecowatch.com/roundup-cancer-1882187755.html

Organic & Non-GMO Report on desiccant phase-out: https://non-gmoreport.com/articles/days-are-numbered-for-pre-harvest-use-of-glyphosate/

The Desiccation Dilemma (2025): https://nomoreglyphosate.nz/the-desiccation-dilemma/

USDA confirms glyphosate in organic chickpeas: https://www.supplysidefbj.com/food-beverage-regulations/usda-confirms-glyphosate-residues-on-organic-chickpeas

Glyphosate Residue Free certification — The Detox Project: https://detoxproject.org/certification/glyphosate-residue-free/

Patrick Moore / quart of Roundup clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM

Glyphosate documentary (nerve agent origins / detox): https://brightvideos.com/play/vid-6d3590de-512e-4416-87c4-54192848ca22/index.html

Truehope / Epiphany documentary: https://truehopecanada.com

Grundler F, et al. (2021) — "Excretion of Heavy Metals and Glyphosate in Urine and Hair Before and After Long-Term Fasting in Humans." Frontiers in Nutrition 8:708069

Chu PL, et al. (2024) — NHANES glyphosate / iron homeostasis study. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 284:116962

Kubsad D, et al. (2019) — Transgenerational glyphosate epigenetic inheritance. Scientific Reports 9(1):6372

Jauregui-Zunzunegui S, et al. (2024) — Glyphosate and grip strength / functional limitations. Environmental Research 251:118547

Samsel A & Seneff S (2013) — "Glyphosate's Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome." Entropy 15(4):1416-1463

Samsel A & Seneff S (2015) — "Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases III: Manganese, neurological diseases, and associated pathologies." Surgical Neurology International 6:45

Dr. Jack Kruse — Patreon CPC #78 & #79 — Glyphosate / melanin / tyrosinase framework

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