5 Reasons Why I Won't Eat GMO's
I had heard about GMO's and how bad they were for you for several years. When I started to experience intestinal issues I would ask my doctor several times why I was having these ongoing issues and he didn't have a reason other than bad luck. After recovering from my first surgery the fistula occurred anew which forced me to take a deep dive into everything I was putting in my body. Though research I was enlightened to the fact that our gut is like the brain to our digestive system and 90% of disease starts in our gut. This means everything we put in our bodies affects our overall health in the future for the next 7 years. My dream is for everyone to ban together and stop purchasing these foods so the companies stop making them. This is possible if we can each take part in reading labels and take an active role for the future state of our health.
#1 GMO's were developed in the 1990's and since they were introduced to the public food related diseases have doubled. Diabetes and Cancer rates are at an all time high. Today there are 3 different categories of GMOs and 80% of the shelves on your grocery store contain some form of GMO.
#2 GMO called BT Toxin. This seed crop has built in toxic pesticides in Corn, Soy and Cotton to constantly produce it at all times. When a bug lands on this GMO crop their stomach explodes and they die. These crops are registered as a pesticide and we are literally eating it on our dinner plates every night in some form or another.
#3 GMO " Roundup Ready”. This crop has been genetically engineered to with stand Round Up which is a herbicide. We can spray them with all the herbicide we want (5 billion pounds a year) and the crops won’t die. The problem with Round Up is that is has Glyphosate which destroys our good gut bacteria which is where 70% of our immune system is housed. Without good gut bacteria our bodies don’t produce tryptophan. Without tryptophan our bodies do not make serotonin and without serotonin our bodies can’t regulate blood sugar which a person develop diabetes.
#4 The third GMO is not a crop that contains pesticides but one that has been modified for a desired trait. Think flounder fish DNA antifreeze gene inserted into a tomato so it will never freeze. The problem is it has two promoters on each end of it. The promoters job are to wake genes up. There are concerns these promoters are waking up the genes in our children’s bodies. We all have latent cancer genes…or maybe even rare diseases that are never meant to wake up. But with the promoters who knows what is happening there are no long term testing on the effects GMO's have on our bodies. Cancer is the #1 killer in our children today.
#5 GMO's are not about helping humanity it's about greed and big business. For the last 20 years our food system has developed into a Toxic Food Culture and our Government is behind it. The more sickness and cancer created through poisoning our food system feeds into the healthcare system and the pharma industry. Who is looking out for us? No one which is why we have take control ourselves.
Tips for avoiding GMO's:
-Know where your fruits and vegetables come from. Does the farmer use pesticides?
-Read nutrition labels if you see anything that you can’t pronounce or looks like a chemical word don’t buy the product.
-Look for the NON GMO label (butterfly symbol)
-Buy organic #9. If you are buying something that is non GMO there is still a good chance it has been sprayed with pesticide which is also another concern. For example commercial celery crop can have up to 65 different pesticide on it so that is why you want to buy organic.
