[Ep 231] One Toxin to Kill Us All: Glyphosate, Toxic Load & How We Fight Back | Michelle Perro, MD

What really makes us ill?

Once you begin questioning germ theory, another question quickly follows: if germs aren’t the cause of disease, then what is?

For past Terrain Theory guests like Dawn Lester, David Parker, Tom Cowan, et al, The answer comes down to some familiar forces: malnutrition, stress, and toxins.

In this conversation, we focus on one of the most pervasive of those toxins: glyphosate.

Michelle Perro, MD is a conventionally trained pediatric emergency physician whose work gradually moved toward environmental medicine, nutrition, homeopathy, GMOs, pesticides, and the growing toxic burden she was seeing in chronically ill children. That journey eventually led her to GMOScience.org, where she now works to educate families about the relationship between food, environmental exposure, and health.

We start with glyphosate and Roundup, but expand into the bigger picture: pesticide exposure, the gut and microbiome, intestinal permeability, mineral depletion, ultra-processed foods, children’s developing physiology, organic and regenerative agriculture, household exposures, water, personal-care products, and the cumulative load created by modern life.

But this is not an episode about becoming afraid of everything around you.

It’s about what you can actually do about it.

Michelle makes the case that the first step is reducing the toxic load: changing what comes into the home, becoming more conscious about food and water, paying attention to what is being sprayed around us, and supporting the body’s ability to recover. She talks about her work with children and families and how some simple shifts in lifestyle and food choice led to vastly improved health outcomes.

Then onto the activation piece: rebuilding community around food, supporting local farmers, growing some of our own food again, and refusing to outsource responsibility for our health entirely to institutions.

Because awareness is only the first step.

Agency comes next.

And if we want healthier people, healthier children, and healthier communities, tending our own terrain may also require tending the terrain of the communities immediately around us...and the terrains of those with whom we share that community.

Learn more about Michelle Perro, MD and her work at https://gmoscience.org/ and https://makingourchildrenwell.com/.

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Music by Chris Merenda