AI MarkGet answers to your health questions from “AI Mark”—an AI-powered chat trained on Dr. Hyman’s teachings.

When Did Gluten Sensitivity Become So Prevalent?

1 Aug 2020 · 2 min

Watch on YouTube

1:40

This is a YouTube video titled "When Did Gluten Sensitivity Become So Prevalent?" containing a monologue or single-speaker discussion from August 1, 2020. The speaker explains the use of Roundup as a desiccant on crops starting in 2006, linking it to the rise in gluten allergies and celiac disease, focusing on agricultural practices and their potential health impacts.

In 2006, they discovered that Roundup was a desiccant. So that, and what that means, if you spray it on a crop, it will actually dry out the crop. And one of the big enemies of the farmer is that if there's rain around the time of harvest, their crops can get wet and then they get moldy and then it ruins the entire silo. Yeah. And so what Monsanto did is they began telling farmers, spray this on the crop, on your wheat, right before harvest, or at the time of harvest. And it was so popular that about 85% of the Roundup that has been used in history has been used since 2006. A large part of that is as it does again, and what that meant, mark is for the first time they're spraying it on food. Yeah. Right at harvest. Yeah. And for the first time, not early in the season when it may have a chance to wash off, but actually just before you're going to eat it. Right. And they're spraying it for the first time on wheat because there was no such thing as Roundup Ready wheat. Yeah. They started spraying it on wheat as a desicant. And so 2006 marks the date. When suddenly these gluten allergies began exploding, celiac disease and all these kind of wheat problems that we started seeing in this country, if you measure back and say, When did it start? You can look and draw a red line, it's 2006, and it's the year that they began spraying it on wheat.