Is Glyphosate Messing With Our Brains? What You Need to Know About This Controversial Herbicide

🌾 What Is Glyphosate and Why Should You Care?

Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world. You’ll find it in products like Roundup, sprayed on crops ranging from wheat and oats to corn and soy. It's not just for killing weeds — glyphosate is also used to dry crops before harvest, meaning it can end up in food even when it's not genetically modified.

That includes a lot of foods made from wheat, grains, and legumes. Translation: glyphosate might be showing up in your pantry more often than you'd think.

🚨 Health Red Flags: What the Research Says

Multiple studies have linked glyphosate exposure to serious health concerns:

🧠 Glyphosate and Alzheimer’s: What New Studies Reveal

1. Arizona State University (2024)

  • Dr. Ramon Velazquez and his team found that mice exposed to glyphosate developed persistent brain inflammation and Alzheimer’s-like changes, even after six months without exposure.

  • They also found a buildup of AMPA (glyphosate's primary metabolite) in brain tissue.

  • Sources: ASU News, ScienceDaily, Neuroscience News

2. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2022)

  • Rats exposed to glyphosate showed increased neuroinflammation and impaired working memory.

  • These findings suggest that glyphosate may contribute to neurological dysfunction.

  • Sources: Alzheimer’s Journals, News-Medical

3. Journal of Neuroinflammation (2022)

  • Glyphosate can cross the blood-brain barrier and increase pro-inflammatory cytokine TNFα in the brain — a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases.

  • Sources: SpringerLink, PMC

4. NHANES Analysis (2023)

  • National health survey data showed a significant negative association between glyphosate levels in urine and memory recall scores in adults.

  • Sources: PubMed, ASU News

Collectively, these studies raise critical questions about glyphosate’s role in long-term cognitive health and the growing burden of neurodegenerative disease.

🌾 Glyphosate in Wheat: Why We Care About It

Conventional wheat is often desiccated with glyphosate before harvest. This is one of the reasons Wildly Beloved Foods only uses organic semolina sourced from Italy — grown without synthetic herbicides, pesticides, or glyphosate.

🚜 Our Belief in Safer Gluten

We believe that gluten sensitivity is often a reaction to what’s been done to wheat — not the wheat itself. Clean, glyphosate-free wheat, processed the old-fashioned way, may be more digestible for many people.

That’s why Wildly Beloved Foods is leading the Safer Gluten movement: high-integrity pasta made with slow-dried, Italian organic semolina that respects your gut and your brain.

🏣 Where to Find Our Clean Pasta

Ready to try pasta that prioritizes health from the ground up? Visit our Whidbey Island shop or explore our list of local retailers [link to Where to Find Our Pasta page].

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