MIT study says that thanks to Roundup, our brains don’t heal as fast as they used to

( Natural News ) If it seems like you’ve been hearing more about traumatic brain injury in the news lately, it’s because this type of injury is on the rise, and experts believe this is because the popular weed killer Roundup is causing brains to be less resilient than they used to be. Every year in the U.S., there are as many as 3.8 million concussions in sports, so it’s no wonder that 89 percent of American parents worry about their children getting hit in the head. Baltimore’s Sports Medicine Research Center reports that sports-related concussions climbed by nearly 16 percent in the ten years from 1998 to 2008. Emergency rooms saw a 60 percent rise in traumatic brain injury visits for kids and teens from 2001 to 2009, even as youth sports participation dropped overall. A pair of MIT researchers carried out a study to look at how modern brains are healing after such injuries. Senior Research Scientist Dr. Stephanie Seneff and Nutrition Specialist Wendy Morey determined that our modern diets are to blame, with environmental toxins and a serious lack of nutrition reducing our brains’ resiliency. How does Roundup affect the brain? Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, can affect the brain in many ways. It depletes the stores of sulfates in neural tissues, leaving them particularly vulnerable to being jostled in a sudden impact. It also disrupts your body’s absorption of nutrients. For example, it interrupts the synthesis of B vitamins and glutathione, a major brain antioxidant. In addition, it destroys the balance of good and bad gut flora in the digestive system, spurring the formation of formaldehyde that can breach your blood-brain barrier. It is also believed to help aluminum cross this essential barrier, allowing it to enter the brain, where it makes it harder […]

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