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so why is there so much glyphosate in my
body and
Caroline's and where is it coming
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from I released a video several weeks
ago talking about how Carolyn and I had
extraordinarily high levels of
glyphosate in our system and what we
hoped wouldn't be true is true I also
have a high level of iate you can go
check out that video to kind of recap
the beginning of this story but we're
picking it up here today because we're
on the path to trying to find out where
the glyphosate is coming from we are in
the top 5% as far as levels Caroline is
actually like off the charts in the
levels and I am am very very high and
that's extremely odd for the type of
lifestyle that we live we've set out on
a path of both Discovery and
detoxification so today's video we're
going to actually do some samples on
some water some soil and some of our
food items to start to find out or at
least see if we can get an idea where
this is coming from but I want to back
up a little bit because there was a
little bit of context I left out of the
last video and you guys had some
important comments and questions that I
want to address first things first we
are in a detoxing protocol and a lot of
you were commenting on that and we're
going to get to that in the story right
now we're just following the doctor's
prescriptions uh through supplementation
there's a few different ways to detox
we're just kind of doing what we're told
right now which is great we'll probably
explore uh toxicity and
detoxification in the future but we want
to get through that process I just
wanted you guys to know that yes we are
addressing it we are actually working
through a detox protocol it's going to
take us six months to a year to see how
this all kind of shapes up and plays out
on that level but we're doing doing
something we're taking care of our
bodies we're working on it the other
thing we can do is what we're doing here
today which is to uh start testing the
things that are coming into our food
system to see if we can identify a
potential Source but before we get to
that testing I wanted to address some
comments you guys had on my report
because several of you astutely noticed
that there were actually several other
things for me personally that were much
higher toxicity level than the gly iate
and so why am I focusing just on the
glyphosate so let's go through that for
just a minute and if you watch the other
video you saw this a bunch of you
commented on it um you saw that afot
toxins were very very high the thing is
is that these other things we have a
pretty good idea where we're coming from
the alot toxins come from multiple
things but very high in coffee we're
heavy coffee drinkers we enjoy our
coffee even organic coffee can be very
very high in afot toxin so we're
addressing that we're changing where
we're we're getting our coffee from uh
because it's presenting these molds the
apoxin is a mold another one is this CED
globos a if I'm saying that right I
don't know I'm not a scientist but it
comes from building molds and
construction my background is in
construction and I have done a lot of
work on moldy properties both through
construction and Property Maintenance
and management so we feel pretty
confident we know where that came from
it can stay in your system but it's also
something that can be dealt with both of
these are things that we can deal with
we can get out of our system one of them
I'm not exposed to anymore or rarely uh
coffee we working on reducing that
exposure another one was and this is a
big word uh hydroxy
isoteric acid essentially it's something
in gasoline okay it ties to the next one
I'll tell you about both of these which
this one I was through the roof in and
that is non phenol it is another thing
that is an additive in gasoline now
between my construction experience I
grew up working on cars homesteading
here working with Machinery I've had a
lot of exposure to fuel and so those are
both likely caused from getting fuel you
know on my hands on my body and that's
kind of a tough one because it's not
something that's going to go away I'm
going to have a regular risk but it's
something I control I can wear gloves
better I can be careful about ingesting
it and so it's identifiable we're pretty
sure we know where that's coming from
those ones while they're alarming um we
can identify them we know what to do
about them and and we can also work to
detoxify them glyphosate is alarming
because where is it coming why are we in
the top 5% when we live a life like I
stated previously we kind of live by the
8020 rule meaning the vast majority of
we take in is what we raise we're not
purists so we don't worry about the the
minor amount however that doesn't add up
to the level of glyphosat-prozess
plants okay and most of the research
you're going to find out there including
the FDA which I'm not saying we should
trust the FDA most of it's going to say
it's been tested in low levels it's not
a problem there's an acceptable level I
don't know that I buy that some of the
stuff I read even from some of the
government sites like the National
Laboratory of medicine the ncbi site.gov
which is a great site for certain
research states that uh its intensive
and large scale use can constitute a
major environmental and health problem
uh it goes on to discuss in this article
that I read how um they're finding that
low long-term exposure they believe is
probably much worse than kind of an
acute shortterm larger exposure okay
these are things they're still figuring
out I don't trust it I don't trust any
of it it's a it's a toxin it's there's a
lot of people that believe it's
carcinogenic there's scientific research
for that even though that's not the
science scientific community's consensus
we don't want these things in our system
but here's the reality they're in our
system glyphosate is the most widely
used herbicide in the world and it's in
80 to 90% of people's body so it's not
shocking to me that it's in my body it's
not shocking to me that it might be in
your body it's not shocking to me that
they might say Hey you know in low
levels over time this is okay or at
least it's not going to cause any harm I
get that our bodies are fearfully and
wonder F made and they're made to take
on some problem some toxicity and deal
with it problem is we live in a toxic
world how many of these toxins are
building up and how much do we just go
oh no big deal versus what can we do to
eliminate some of this and so that's the
journey we're on I don't think it's good
for any of us this level of toxicity
that we're exposed to on the other side
we can't get rid of it either so we've
got to find a balanced path I hope in
our journey and our discovery that that
not only will it help us solve our
problem it will help you guys at least
know how to test know how to identify
some things and take action that is
appropriate for you next steps is to
start testing we're going to start by
testing some soil in water and then
we're going to go on to testing some of
the animal feeds we're using and even a
few of the bulk foods that we ingest you
know at a at a high regular level okay
so we're going to test water
first and I'm using some test kits by
detox project.org no affiliation with
them but they were who was recommended
to me um by a friend of mine who's done
some of this and a little bit of
research so first thing we're doing is
water this is just regular water out of
the tap we're going to test it first if
it was to come up
positive we would go to the source
that's water we just got to follow the
directions
here
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you know I I feel blessed that they have
tools like this that we can do this at
home I'm sure there is some margins of
error in something like this but this is
supposed to be a quality test and at
least give
us uh a direction good little arrows
tell them to go down insert test strip
with arrows pointing
down and we're going to leave it like
that for another 10 minutes so we're
going to test our soil next and we have
some soil collected from our main crop
Garden that is where the vast majority
of our food comes from it's also where
the previous
owners uh who I would have a little
suspect because of their gardening
practic it's also where they Garden so
this is some nice look at that beautiful
soil um hopefully it's not contaminated
so this came from our
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garden this has been in here for 10
minutes says to now take it out and let
it sit for another 10
minutes and wait for the lines to appear
I'm going to go ahead and do it right
here just as to lay it
flat 10 more minutes okay and we'll see
okay so it looks like our water test is
finished drum
roll this is water right out of our tap
and it's it's not as bright and bold as
I would like it to be but those
instructions don't say it has to be
bright and bold it just says you have to
see the control line and then measure
the control line against the test line I
can see the control line the test line
is actually slightly darker than the
control line which tells us according to
this test that there is no glyphosate in
the water so that's good news
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we wanted to test our animal feeds and
our animal feeds
are uh a lot of layer feed for the egg
layers uh we raise a lot of chicken so
we call those broilers a lot of Broiler
feed so both of those are heavy grains
all right the pigs we actually feed
whole grains it's been wheat this last
season so whole wheat that we uh ferment
and soak and then alala pellets for the
dairy cow and she is uh lactating she
gets a little bit of teeny grain but
it's not much and it's from the same
company as these other ones so we didn't
test that bulk of it's Alfalfa and then
hey we're we're on Hay a lot during the
year so that was a concern to me so
those are all the major feeds going into
our animals we eat a pretty heavy meat
diet so we wanted to do that and then we
wanted to test some of the grains
because that's something we don't raise
so we've tested oats which uh are
organic so we're buying those certified
organic um we flour which is also
certified organic and then we also grind
a lot of whole wheat we buy the wheat
whole and we grind it and that is not
certified organic so that's what we've
got tested and that's a that's a big
part of our food supply chain most of
the vegetables and everything we're
growing out in the garden right so we're
we're kind of trust in the soil test for
right now and we'll we'll see where this
all gets to so what do we have going on
what did we find out water and soil came
up negative that's a huge huge plus very
very excited about that alala pellets
which the dairy cow gets has come up uh
negative it's it's a little borderline
by their measurements um you know this
is an imperfect test but it's looking
negative or what would be extremely
minimal pig feed which is the whole
wheat non-organic I figured that was
highly likely to be positive and it is
is also showing negative very strong
negative so excited about that um the
hay is what I wondered about because we
raise a lot of ruminants they eat hay
five to six months out of the year you
know there's a lot of different things
you can use I didn't really know but it
is also showing a negative really really
happy about that the organic oats is
showing negative as it should thankfully
we can trust that Organic certification
in this case very thankful for that the
organic flour is also showing negative
and then the wheat that we've been
buying I expected this would have a high
likelihood of showing some glyphosate
and it is showing negative as well so
that's a positive sign we're probably
still going to go ahead and go we've
organic week we've been in and out it's
a little hard to source so we've kind of
taken it when we could get it easily I
think with all this happening we're just
going to go ahead and go to organic
wheat but this is not an organic wheat
and again it did not test positive so
excited about that now I've left out to
the layer feed and the broiler feed and
they are
showing positive strongly positive this
doesn't give you measurements I mean it
gives us some some
idea um in parts per million but it's
it's a little hard it's High by by what
we're reading here basically in our test
we're getting no test line which would
be at the higher level and so it's
showing that our our uh layers their
feed has a high level of glyphosate and
broilers our meat chickens have a high
level of glyphosate so what do we do the
obvious solution is to start buying
organic right um we've proved out here
in this little test it's a small test
it's not perfect but we've we've
certainly proved out that a couple
things that we know are certified
organic are testing clean and that's a
great thing so what we can do is start
buying organic chicken feed now that's a
little bit of a challenge we got to buy
in bulk and it's going to be almost
double the price it's going to be worth
it it's probably what we're going to do
but it still leaves some questions for
us between the eggs from the layers and
the meat chickens one we're not testing
the actual food that might be something
we need to look at doing but we couldn't
find a home test that would do that so
how much of it is coming through the
food even that said that's still H 15%
of our diet maybe um might go up a
little at times of the year down a
little bit in times of the year it still
doesn't explain to me why Carolyn and I
have such a high level of glyphosate
while this is cool there's some things
that are not showing up there's some
things that are are so we can take a few
positive steps um there's still a story
here there's still something going on
that I can't answer right now as to why
the levels are so high and it's
something we're going to have to
continue to pursue while we go ahead and
solve the things that are solvable we
don't really have great answers I
thought by the testing that we would
really get some real conclusive answers
we have a couple we can take action on
it um but we're going to have to
continue to explore this concept and
continue the conversation to try to
understand why a family that raises uh
3ars of its food or better buys mostly
organic
um is testing in the highest levels of a
substance uh that people of any
lifestyle tests people that are eating a
regular commercial diet um where you'd
expect them maybe to test that level and
we're higher so I don't know I don't
know where it goes from here um but this
has been an interesting Journey thanks
for hanging out and we will definitely
update you soon check up here for that
updated video or another video in the
meantime