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samlinnfertoday at 2:51 PM3 repliesview on HN

So what's the current speculation on how it causes cancer?

Glyphosate acts on the Shikimate pathway that doesn't exist in humans.

Is it killing gut bacteria?


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hammocktoday at 3:01 PM

Mechanistic evidence shows low doses cause genotoxicity and oxidative stress in human lymphocytes and other cells.

A novel mechanism proposal is that glyphosate may chelate and accumulate in the bone, slowly releasing into the bloodstream, exposing bone marrow and potentially triggering hematologic malignancies.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S21522...

pfdietztoday at 3:04 PM

My theory is that if you torture a chemical with enough diverse studies, you can find some where it confesses to causing cancer, even if it actually doesn't.

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NotGMantoday at 4:28 PM

Human gut bacteria have the Shikimate pathways so it can kill them.

Basicaly glyphosate could act like a gut bacteria antibiotic.

>> 54% of the human core gut bacterial species are potentially sensitive to glyphosate, which targets an enzyme in the shikimate pathway, suggesting that roughly half of gut bacteria possess this pathway

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201120095858.h...