Protecting Your Fertility: A Guide to Reducing Glyphosate Exposure
Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health
Briana Mercola
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🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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- Research shows that glyphosate exposure, even at “safe” levels, causes hormone imbalance, oxidative stress, and permanent damage to reproductive organs like the ovaries and uterus
- Exposure reduces estrogen and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) while increasing testosterone and progesterone, creating conditions similar to PCOS. It also impairs egg quality and lowers the chance of successful fertilization and implantation
- Glyphosate alters gene expression in the uterus of offspring who were never directly exposed. These inherited disruptions impact fertility for your children and grandchildren
- The chemical shuts down mitochondria, blocks detox enzymes, and depletes essential minerals, setting off a chain reaction that affects everything from hormone production to brain function
- Avoiding glyphosate-contaminated food, filtering your water, eliminating seed oils, and healing your gut are key steps to reverse its impact and regain reproductive and metabolic health
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Mercola's Cellular Wisdom. |
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| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to Dr. Mercola's Cellular Wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster, and today we're delving into an important |
| 0:21.9 | discussion on how glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, can affect female fertility and overall |
| 0:28.3 | reproductive health. This conversation is drawn from recent findings and comprehensive research |
| 0:33.8 | showing that glyphosate exposure, even at levels deemed safe, can lead to hormone disruption, |
| 0:40.3 | oxidative stress, and long-term damage to reproductive organs. |
| 0:44.8 | Joining me is Ilara Sky, who focuses on natural health insights. |
| 0:49.9 | Elara, thank you for being here today. |
| 0:52.3 | Thank you for having me, Ethan. |
| 0:54.0 | I look forward to shedding |
| 0:55.4 | light on this topic and helping our listeners understand why glyphosate is more than just a chemical |
| 1:00.7 | in weed killers. It's actually quite pervasive in our environment and can accumulate in the body |
| 1:06.8 | over time. Research now confirms it can affect everyone, whether you realize you've been exposed or not. |
| 1:13.4 | Let's talk about glyphosate itself. It's the active ingredient in Roundup, introduced by Monsanto |
| 1:19.0 | in the 1970s. We hear about it primarily in farming and landscaping, but the real concern is that |
| 1:25.2 | glyphosate residues show up in our bodies, including in pregnant |
| 1:28.9 | women and children. |
| 1:30.1 | In fact, studies indicate that 60% to 80% of the general US population has trace amounts |
| 1:37.0 | of glyphosate in their urine. |
| 1:39.0 | How does that align with what researchers are saying about the health impact? |
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