Chemical Farming & The Loss of Human Health - Dr. Zach Bush

we've literally built an entire economy of not  just the united states but the entire western   civilization on health care and that's been a  hidden reality for a long time but for thousands   of years the real control of populations has been  around their food and we find ourselves in that   same you know if not amped up version now that we  have 7 billion souls on the planet that becomes   very very big business when you start to be able  to control food and we see that the ultimate   political control is around the food chain and  whether it delivers health or not i've basically   found myself in a massively reductionist state of  my understanding of the world around us when i had   really spent you know 20 years of my life studying  medicine which was the opposite where every year   and minute you study in that environment they try  to convince you it's more complicated that there's   a thousand different diseases that there's ten  thousand different drugs to treat those diseases   then but in reality what started to deconstruct  that world was the realization that the cancer   i was studying under the microscope when i was  devising chemotherapy happened to be really the   exact same process as an ulcer in the ankle of  a diabetic patient again sound totally disparate   but the end totally reductionist viewpoint is  it's only one thing which is chronic inflammation   inflammation is actually a normal biologic  response to an injury if we have a chronic   inflammatory epidemic in the in the world which  is a better definition than lots of diseases then   we must be overwhelming the immune system of all  of the public for some reason at the same time   sometime between 1982 and 2000 we had a did  something to the environment to totally decimate   the protection system of our immune immune systems  and the big tip off to me in this process you know   here i am in the labs developing chemotherapy  and is so buried down the rabbit hole of the   pharmaceutical model but there was a big tip-off  starting to happen in the late 1990s and early   2000s that we were seeing diseases in what seemed  like completely different organ systems in the   population go epidemic simultaneously examples  of this was certainly autism that you mentioned   earlier we had one in five thousand children  with autism in 1975. today we have just three   weeks ago released the most recent data one in  36 children with an autism spectrum disorder   and the big argument for a long time was well  maybe we're just diagnosing and recognizing autism   better which is kind of laughable if you've ever  sat with an autistic child here's a five-year-old   who can't speak can't make eye contact hits his  head on the wall for a few hours a day to try to   console his terror we didn't miss that in 1975 you  know this is not a diagnostic dilemma but then to   further emphasize that the fastest acceleration in  that growth pattern of this epidemic has happened   between 2012 and today where we're seeing  a doubling time every two to three years   in that autism rate at the current rate we'll  see one in three children with autism in 2035.   and then in 1996 we saw this sudden rise in in  the alzheimer's dementia in women interestingly   the alzheimer's rates has not changed in males  since that time but at the same time 1996 we   see this uptick and consistent linear growth  parallel to that alzheimer's tracking women   with parkinson's and males and so we have  you know species specific gender specific   organ specific diseases in the brain and  peripheral cancers all of which took off at   the same time in the mid 1990s autoimmune disease  unbelievable epidemic starting in the late 1990s   and so this was like the cracks that were starting  to form in my world view that maybe there weren't   a thousand different diseases because they all  started going epidemic at once which really   begged the question is there a root cause of  the root cause of the root cause of all disease   in the same way that we've misunderstood the gut  and what gut health means we misunderstood soil   for the longest time and in the 1900s early 1900s  really the late 1880s we started to change the   way we farmed um simple things happened like we  went to steel grinding for wheat instead of stone   grinding it which meant we could get more of the  fiber out which means we created a higher gluten   and a higher refined carbohydrate load in our  flowers and in our wheat system and everything   else so that's one example of a shift but the main  thing that happened is we started to disrespect   the importance of crop rotation and soil  rest cover cropping etc this led to a   massive death of the topsoil which led to the  dust bowl that ran through the 1920s and 30s   and it's fascinating that here we are only 80  years out from this event where our ancestors   you know two generations three generations were  literally starving to death we had soup lines that   went for days you know across the entire midwest  and houses were literally being buried in dust   of dead soil that had died during the dust bowl  we actually for the first time started outsource   our food production because these people lost  their local gardens and farms so we started to   rely on importing food for the first time and  we started let's outsource that concept then   world war ii hit and we did something interesting  which is we had this huge petroleum industry that   was revved up bigger than it had ever been in the  history because we had all tanks jeeps mechanized   warfare for the first time in human history  on this scale we had planes for the first time   i mean this was like full out totally different  thing that had ever happened in history and it was   a world war much different than world war one  in its scope and so we see this huge petroleum   industry that suddenly grinds to a halt because  the war is over so we have this glut of petroleum   and we suddenly realized we can extract nitrogen  phosphorus and potassium out of that coal that oil   and we started making chemical based fertilizers  for the first time so they found a new marketplace   for this oil and it was a great message to the  farmers who were still suffering with bad dirt   in the midwest is like you don't need to do  crop rotation you don't need to compost you   don't need to go back to thousands of years of  farming tradition just spray this chemical on   there yeah forget about whatever you might have  learned during the dust bowl yeah that was that   was 40 years ago that's right ancient times we're  modern now yeah and so these farmers started using   it and it became a revolution for them and it was  actually called the green revolution of the 1960s   and so the green revolution was actually use of  nitrogen phosphorus potassium or npk fertilizers   and the mpk fertilizer did turn plants green  because nitrogen and phosphorus do that   but what was lacking in those plants for the  first time in human history was the nutrients   and the medicine that should always have been in  that food and so the plants became weak just like   a human being who lacks nutrients their immune  system goes down and when a plant's immune system   goes down becomes prone to viruses pests and it  can't excrete the stuff from the root system that   would keep weeds at bay and so now the plants  are getting you know attacked from the outside   if you will and the chemical pharma chemical  industry says no problem here's a new chemical   weed killer here's a pesticide and so the farmers  got themselves locked into this co-dependent   relationship with chemical fertilizers then  chemical drugs for the plants to keep them   alive despite a failing biology underneath the  surface there right akin to taking a drug to   deal with the symptoms of some ailments that you  have that creates a whole battery of side effects   that then require you to take another drug to deal  with those it's just a an environmental version   of that it's exactly the same thing in fact  the drugs have been the same in a lot of ways   the main drug is antibiotics western medicine  really got its first foothold with penicillin   our first antibiotic and that happened  to be in the 1940s with world war ii   and so we developed in the same decade the  antibiotics that would kill the bacteria in   our body with the antibiotics that would kill the  soil and i say antibiotic because these chemicals   that we were using as pesticides are largely uh  antibiotic rather than you know what you would   think of maybe a weed killer or something and the  most famous of these of course has become roundup   the most single successful chemical warfare that's  ever been sold on the planet we currently sell and   use four and a half billion pounds of glyphosate  which is the active ingredient in the chemical to   treat the soils of the earth four and a half  billion pounds of a single chemical annually   that chemical was never patented as a weed  killer it's only been patented as an antibiotic   and then it was repatented as an antiparasite and  it wasn't yeah that was the original purpose of it   correct well it's the mechanism it's  the mechanism they recognized and so the   mechanism of glyphosate is to go in and block  enzymes in soil bacteria fungi and plants   and that enzyme pathway is called the shikimate  pathway and and it's important because it makes   a number of the essential amino acids our bodies  are composed of over 200 000 proteins but we only   have 20 000 genes we have this pathetically dumb  genome in the sense that a flea has 30 000 genes   so you're two-thirds as complicated as a flea  at the gene level which i find reassuring if   i can't find my keys or i'm having a bad day i'm  like okay i'm two-thirds of healthcare as a flea   what can what are my real expectations here but  the reality is we're very simple at the genetic   level and yet we make over 200 000 proteins from  a bunch of amino acids there's 26 amino acids   that will build those 200 000 proteins those 26  amino acids are just like the 26 letters of the   english alphabet in the sense that the vast  majority of those are useful but not critical   but the vowels these eight vowels in our language  if you subtract one of those vowels you can affect   hundreds of thousands of words the vowels in the  amino acid vocabulary here is are the essential   amino acids which if you start to tweak any of  those nine you're gonna start to lose tens of   thousands of protein structures in in their  functionality and in their their unique form   and so those essential amino acids not only  are they important like the vowels they also   can't be made by the human body so those nine  have to come from your food chain somewhere   and it turns out that they are only made by the  bacteria the fungi in the plants you don't have   a shikimay pathway in your human cells and  so these essential amino acids are blocked   through the chickamay pathway by roundup and so  imagine treating a food chain with a chemical   that blocks the ability of these plants to make  the building blocks for a healthy human body   forget about a human it's a dog a cat any mammal  any complex multicellular biology is going to   depend on these essential amino acids and we  literally in the last 15 years subtracted out   the ability to build the body because we changed  the the 26 letters and so the current statistics   is that less than one tenth of one percent of the  roundup used on the planet actually hits a weed   the other 99.99 gets into the soil and in the  water system and washes off and so we are now   seeing the runoff from these farms and in  the water table itself so we have fossil   aquifers in the united states here that run  from canada all right all the way down to   historically mexico that has now dried up we've  we've turned over a thousand square miles of   of uh texas into desert over just the last  20 years from sucking water out of the ground   that fossil aquifer is now contaminated with  roundup that's filtered down into this ancient   freshwater source forest and then in the same  moment you've got the mississippi river which   collects over 80 percent of all the roundup in  the country and then it's evaporating the whole   time so it's going into the air that you breathe  and then it goes into the clouds and then it rains   down on us recent studies in the air and rainfall  in the southern united states is showing 75   of the rain 75 air contaminated with roundup so  before you even take a bite of food you're being   hit with an antibiotic when you breathe you're  getting hit with an antibiotic when you when you   experience rainfall and so you may be growing  organic crops but they're getting rained on   and so we have now locked this water soluble toxin  into our environment fortunately you know to give   you a little bit of breather here from the bad  news is that there are bacteria and fungi that can   eventually digest the glyphosate the downside  is we need to stop spraying it so that they can   return we're decimating those very bacteria and  fungi by the presence of roundup to the point   where they're not digesting it current estimates  is if we stop spraying roundup tomorrow it would   take about 50 years before our ecosystem saw  a drop in the level of roundup below our toxic   levels if the conspiracy theorist was right then  we'd see one in two people with cancer we'd see   one in 30 kids with autism we'd see parkinson's  going crazy they're literally repeating back if if   if it was toxic we would see literally what we're  seeing you know and so the reality is the public   health statistics have gotten so grim in the last  eight years that nobody can call this a conspiracy   theory anymore um but it's almost like yeah but  that's where's the direct where's the smoking gun   the smoking gun is what's been missing that's what  we found in 2012. so in 2012 we found it backwards   um i don't think anybody's actually smart enough  with the human gray matter that we're given to   actually create a paradigm shift prospectively  right so every great you know mind that we look   to and pass galileo or you know ben franklin or  anybody we said oh they discovered something or   you know edison these just came at moments when  the evidence got so overwhelming that it became   obvious right and so in the same way in 2012 the  evidence was getting so overwhelming that we were   onto something in the nutrition  world but we at the time i was   still thinking cancer cancer therapy because  my background was in chemotherapy development   and so when i found these molecules in soil that  looked similar to the chemotherapy i'd been making   a lot of bells started ringing of like what is  that where'd it come from how is there medicine   in the dirt like where is that coming from and  within a few weeks of that discovery of those   molecules we found out that bacteria and fungi  were making these specific shapes of these carbon   molecules and that really closed the loop for me  because there had been some papers coming out in   the mid-2000s in the cancer world that were  starting to say that the bacteria in your gut   were predicting which cancers you would get if you  were missing these bacteria you would get prostate   cancer if you had these bacteria you would get  breast cancer that was so radically bizarre and   out there for our current model even to this day  as to how cancer worked but now you fast forward   eight ten years and now there's tens of thousands  of articles that are showing that genomically   the bacterial genome is way more important  in determining cancer than the human genome   and and so this reality was hitting and so  in 2012 when we discovered these chemicals   that look a little like chemotherapy that  are made by bacteria and fungi in the soil   it suddenly closed the loop of oh my gosh what if  the bacteria in our gut is doing the same thing   what if the bacteria and the fungi are actually  our best source of medicine for everything and   so that's the direction we were going but as  soon as we put this into petri dishes with   cancer cells and beyond we suddenly realized no no  there's something way deeper happening with these   this information stream coming out of bacteria and  fungi and it was my chief science officer dr john   gilday he's a phd in genetics and and cell biology  and he was the first to realize that we had   put our finger on the glyphosate toxicity issue  is that this communication network from the   bacteria and fungi was actually supporting the  protein structure in our gut lining and so it   turns out that the gut is held together as these  trillions of cells that make up that cellophane   layer by tight junctions these are velcro-like  proteins that hold one microscopic cell to the   next to create this coherent carpet and he had  recognized before this in a number of other labs   that started to publish that glyphosate seemed  to increase the permeability of this membrane   and nobody was really sure why yet but we suddenly  realized that if this bacterial communication   network was in there we we couldn't injure the  the membrane we it became bulletproof to the   glyphosate injury and so in that journey we start  to really study glyphosate in its relationship to   the human cells because like you said monsanto  has been swearing up and down that there is no   harm to the human body because the chickamay  pathway only exists in bacteria and fungi   well that may be true regarding that enzyme target  but the classic thing with any drug is it always   has off-target effects right so that's why drugs  have side effects is they don't actually go and do   exactly what your doctor says it's going to go do  it's going to hit a bunch of other receptors and   do other things the side effects of glyphosate  that are outside of the shikimate pathway   is direct injury to the protein structure that  holds your gut lining together this would be bad   news if that was it but it turns out that every  macro membrane in your body the blood vessels that   that fuel your entire body with oxygen nutrients  are held together with the same tight junctions   the blood-brain barrier that perfect protects  your peripheral nervous system and your brain same   tight junctions the kidney tubules that are held  together to detox your body same tight junctions   and so what's happened as we introduced a chemical  that's directly toxic to this this velcro-like   protein is we turn into leaky sieves on the front  end gut leak and nasal sinus leak and so every   time we breathe every time we eat we're starting  to leak and our immune system gets overwhelmed   then the blood vessels that are supposed to  deliver either an immune response from peripheral   or get nutrients to some distant space is also  leaking and so we're getting permeability of   the blood vessels then you get to the blood-brain  barrier this is supposed to be the holy of holies   a peripheral nerve or the brain is supposed to be  protected against everything in your blood because   even glucose which is the main fuel for your brain  should not get into the brain in an unregulated   fashion it will damage the nerves and so the holy  of holies of the central and peripheral nervous   system is being destroyed and so if that's true if  glyphosate was really damaging that then we should   see a massive explosion in neurologic injury  to children and adults starting in about 1996   that's exactly when we see this steep increase  happening in autism alzheimer's parkinson's   neurodegenerative conditions like ms  autoimmune diseases and all the rest   i mean all of this has sounded like a lot of  bad news but identifying a problem is so much   of the solution you know and so now that  we identify the problem look we've we've   put into our food chain a chemical that deletes  the ability to build a healthy human body   we've put into the food chain a chemical that  deletes the medicine out of our food which we   didn't have time to talk about but uh that  shame chickamay pathway makes the alkaloids   which are the medicinal features of our food is  deleted by glyphosates we build a diseased body   we build a food chain that doesn't have the  medicine in it and then we take away the most   you know vital thing which is this micro cause  a macrocosm phenomena you just talked about   so far i've been describing to you that we are  losing the identity between the outside world   and our immune system by the breakdown of these  membranes we get leak that's literally taking away   self-identity from the immune system and so we get  autoimmune disease where we're starting to react   to our own body as if it was foreign in the same  way at the macro level i believe we're losing our   self-identity as human beings as we start to  leak and we start to become majorly depressed   panic disorder we start to get lost down these  rabbit holes of doubt insecurity fear guilt we   have spiritual crisis we have a relationship  crisis that's on an epidemic level equal to   cancer and beyond the ability to stay in human  relationships seems to be the most complicated   thing that we could possibly endure right now it's  because we are literally losing self-identity at   the cell level because we are eating a chemical  that breaks our self-identity at the cell level   a sickness happens and it results in an  immune reaction in the healing process i   think that's what's happening to our society  right now we have a sickness and a disease   on the planet of loss of self-identity and human  consciousness of our purpose here only to trigger   the ultimate healing process which is to realize  that we're all one we are all on one mission to   find truth in ourselves and through one another we  are calling in community we are going to overcome   the isolation of our cell phone era we're going  to start to touch each other more we're going to   hug each other more because we have to and that's  a beautiful healing process that i already see a   foot in the world around me and i'm blessed to be  able to go and speak all over the world right now   and i'm blessed in that journey to see humans  changing their macro consciousness as they change   their diet as they change their nutrition as they  get in touch with their food chain as they put   bacterial and fungal communication networks back  in their body they come back 18 months later to my   clinic and they'll say doc i just left my husband  he's been abusing me for 35 years and i finally   realized i don't deserve that and i left and so  the you know a woman can in an instant suddenly   realize as her boundaries go up at the gut and  at the blood-brain barrier her macro boundaries   of that's not spiritually and psychologically  appropriate i am me i am i am important i am loved   i don't need that kind of abuse in my life in  the same way i'll have somebody walk in and say   doc i just quit my job i just started my company  that i've been wanting to start for 30 years and   wasn't confident enough to start and i just  realized i am ready and i just did it and so i   have this goosebump experience over and over again  despite some of the you know tragedy that's in   the talks that i give and the science that i now  know and i'm constantly seeing this bubbling up of   human hope and human healing and consciousness  coming on and i take great hope in that   i take great excitement that if a few of us can  become conscious and aware and awake right now   it has a ripple effect that is so quick and it has  to be quick because one thing we can be certain   with no matter what background we come from  scientifically or politically we can agree that   any society faced with one in three children with  autism will collapse under a financial blow that   is inescapable and so we're about 16 years away  from a sure complete collapse of our financial   status as a country and yet we don't hear a single  politician talking about we don't because why   because the politicians are not the solution you  and i are the solution as consumers and we are   doing it already the organic food movement nobody  predicted how successful is going to be ten years   ago it was less than one percent of the food sold  in the country and now we're pushing it you know   we're up to maybe four or five percent in a lot  of communities if we can push that to 16 percent   these are numbers that were apparently leaked from  monsanto in their marketing analysis if if the   american food chain became 16 organic monsanto  and chemical farming would lose its financial   stability thank you for watching this episode  of after school i'm dr zach bush and i'm just   honored to be with the community at the fabric  of our nature is the message and capacity for   regeneration and fascinatingly after the last five  extinction events on the planet there has been an   explosion of life because in fact the fabric of  the genome the fabric of biology as it is made is   that of adaptation and diversification after every  major extinction event the level of stress within   the genome inspires more creativity it is not a  demise it is not a victim it sees the opportunity   for something more dynamic more adaptive and  more resilient and ultimately more intelligent   after that last great extinction the world did  not suffer back or struggle back to create the   dinosaurs instead mother nature envisioned the  possibility of birds mammals humans and here we   walk the earth today and we have triggered  an extinction event through our extraction   and our consumption because of our our  belief that we are separate from nature   that we need to control her that we need to  domineer her and that we actually are some   sort of manifest destiny towards her consumption  changing that mindset and coming into alignment   with mother nature will create a future  that none of us can imagine we could in   fact be a part of that new adaptation of  biology on earth for a more intelligent   more diverse and more explosively regenerative  future i look forward to being there with you you

Channel: After Skool

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Keywords: Zach Bush, monsanto, glyphosate, chemical farming, after skool, autism, disease, GMO, pesticide, mental health

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Length: 24min 55sec (1495 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 27 2021