Pandemic of Chronic Disease
By: Mark Stair
Tags: Glyphosate, Antibiotics, Organic, Agriculture, Chronic Illness

The year 2020 has focused on covid-19 and death statistics due to this virus. However, there is an even bigger issue underlying overall health in most of the world which is chronic disease. Chronic diseases are long lasting such as arthritis, asthma, autism, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, kidney disease and Alzheimer's. People who have these chronic diseases are 6 times more likely to have complications and die from covid per the CDC.

The biggest question is WHY such a huge increase in chronic disease? You can study any of the chronic diseases and see huge, almost exponential growth over the years.

Not a single one of these chronic illnesses are getting better, they are ALL growing at significant rates. If you consider the impact on overall healthcare economics, the increases are going to lead to astronomical healthcare costs throughout the world. If any country could figure out and solve the root cause, they could have a significant economic advantage against other countries. The same would be true down to the individual, if you can avoid these chronic diseases you would have more economic security as well as a healthier life.

WHAT is the ROOT cause of these chronic diseases? The CDC blames tobacco use, poor nutrition, lack of physical activity and excessive alcohol use. Except for poor nutrition, I think this list is a bunch of bullshit. While chronic illness is up, tobacco use is down. Physical activity is either the same or slightly better due to emphasis on the importance over the last few decades. Alcohol consumption is also down.

Smoking is down. http://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Annual-adult-per-capita-cigarette-consumption-and-major-smoking-and-health-events-United-States-1900-1998-Hanson-Venturelli-and-Fleckenstein-2009.png

Alcohol consumption is flat to down

So this leaves a couple possibilities: Nutrition, environmental, and/or healthcare. Let’s look at each of these:

Nutrition: Starvation has been in a decline over the last few decades around the world and over-eating has become more of an issue than undereating. So if rise in chronic disease is due to nutrition it would be either from over-eating and/or consuming food that is bad for us. Since over-eating is such an epidemic and is directly related to many of the diseases, this is definitely an issue. However, people are not more wealthy than previous decades so what is causing over-eating? I wouldn’t think people “want” to over-eat so I would tend to believe that if nutrition is the main cause, then it’s because the FOOD is BAD for us and causing us to eat more than we should. We’ll come back to this after we discuss the other possibilities.

Environmental: If the air we breath, the water we drink and the food we eat are bad for us, then this would definitely increase chronic disease. Environment and nutrition would also be closely linked because if the food we eat such as plants and animals are consuming bad air, water and nutrients that would filter down to us when we consume that food.

Healthcare: This is a touchy subject. On one hand healthcare has improved life expectancy mainly due to trauma care, antibiotics and vaccines. I also include animal and plant healthcare in this category due to the use of antibiotics and vaccines for the health of the animals we eat. Glyphosate, commonly called Round-up, is used in abundance throughout the world and is also considered an antibiotic and has been patented as such. Glyphosate antibiotics do kill bad weeds and germs, but they equally kill the good and just like other antibiotics the benefits keep diminishing over time since the weeds adapt.

Pharmaceutical use has been growing as fast as chronic disease however it’s hard to find data on this subject. Best we can do is look at the stock charts of the Pharma Index. This looks like it has high correlation to chronic disease increase.

The microbiome in our gut has been getting significant awareness in the past few years. We now realize that we have about the same number of microorganisms in our body as we have human cells. There is an uncanny resemblance between the microorganisms in our soil and our gut. Even though our gut is “inside” our body it’s really the interface between the outside and our real insides, thus we are more like a donut with the donut hole being our gut. Everything we eat comes from the soil and the water. Even the animals we eat are eating plants and fish from the soil and water.

If we destroy our soil and water through antibiotics such as Glyphosate, we are diminishing the beneficial organisms that our species has relied on for thousands of years. So, my conclusion is:

OVERUSE OF ANTIBIOTICS SUCH AS GLYPHOSATE AND THOSE USED ON FEED ANIMALS IS KILLING US.

There are obviously times when we need antibiotics, however the overuse of antibiotics to kill weeds, grow feed animals, and over-prescribed is leading to an increase in chronic disease and has reversed the increase in life expectancy.

If you want to improve your chance against covid and future viruses and diseases, grow your own food without chemicals and pesticides and purchase only organic and natural foods. Ten’s of thousands of years of human evolution is smarter than science in this area IMHO.