{"id":22458,"date":"2025-02-19T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22458"},"modified":"2025-02-19T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T10:24:32","slug":"is-this-common-herbicide-harming-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22458","title":{"rendered":"Is This Common Herbicide Harming Your Health?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The science on glyphosate, best known as Roundup, still isn\u2019t settled.<\/p>\n

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As part of his pledge to \u201cMake America Healthy Again,\u201d Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants to build an \u201coff-ramp\u201d from the country\u2019s reliance on insecticides and herbicides to grow food.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe chemicals pollute our bodies the same way that they pollute the soil,\u201d Mr. Kennedy said<\/a> in 2024. This week, Mr. Kennedy, now the federal health secretary, said that a commission established by President Trump to examine chronic disease rates would look into the use of pesticides, as well as childhood vaccines, microplastics and more.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kennedy\u2019s opposition to herbicides, particularly a widely used chemical called glyphosate, has earned support from some environmental advocates, so-called \u201cMAHA moms\u201d and wellness influencers. But some of the claims he and others have made about glyphosate \u2014 including that it is potentially linked to cancer, gluten allergies and a variety of other health issues \u2014 are based on science that is still not settled.<\/p>\n

Prominent organizations have come to markedly different judgments on glyphosate after reviewing the research. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate<\/a> as \u201cprobably carcinogenic to humans.\u201d Two years later, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded that glyphosate<\/a> was \u201cnot likely to be carcinogenic to humans\u201d and that it posed \u201cno other meaningful risks to human health when the product is used according to the pesticide label.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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So should you be trying to avoid it? Here\u2019s what the science shows.<\/p>\n