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It's in the Weeds: Herbicide Linked to Human Liver Disease
In a study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology[$], a team [...] examined glyphosate excretion in the urine samples of two patient groups — those with a diagnosis of NASH (nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, a type of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease or NAFLD), and those without. The results, they found, were significant: Regardless of age, race, body mass index (BMI), ethnicity or diabetes status, glyphosate residue was significantly higher in patients with NASH than it was in patients with a healthier liver.
The findings, coupled with prior animal studies, said Mills, suggest a link between the use of commercial glyphosate in our food supply, which has increased significantly over the past 25 years, and the prevalence of NAFLD in the United States, which too has been on the rise for two decades.
"There have been a handful of studies, all of which we cited in our paper, where animals either were or weren't fed Roundup or glyphosate directly, and they all point to the same thing: the development of liver pathology," said Mills. "So I naturally thought: 'Well, could it be exposure to this same herbicide that is driving liver disease in the U.S.?'"
The study examined urine samples of 93 patients. Forty-one percent were male; 42 percent were white or Caucasian; 35 percent were Hispanic or Latino. Average BMI was 31.8. Patients were originally recruited as part of a larger study at the UC San Diego NAFLD Research Center conducted between 2012 and 2018. Liver biopsies were used to determine the presence or absence of NAFLD while classifying the subjects by cohort.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @07:29AM (3 children)
When the washing machine is broken, the clothes are not washed, is the conclusion.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @10:21AM (2 children)
You've got it backwards. If you put a clean load of laundry through the wash and the outtake water is clean, that doesn't mean the machine is broken. If you put dirty clothing through and get dirty water, the machine is working. If you put dirty clothing through and you get dirty water and a broken machine, then the machine can't handle that level of dirt.
If the herbicide has no negative effects, it should be excreted in higher amounts from the people with healthy livers since their livers are doing a good job cleaning the blood. However it's present from people with damaged livers which means it's highly likely to be causing that damage. The people who eat the herbicide end up with damaged livers and those won't don't eat it aren't damaged.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @02:50PM (1 child)
Or maybe the people with unhealthy livers are not as effective at getting rid of the glyphosate. There's no way to conclude cause and effect here.
(Score: 2) by boltronics on Thursday May 16 2019, @03:32AM
Wouldn't be surprising. A BMI of 31.8 on *average* - a lot of very unhealthy people in that sample unfortunately.
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