Impact of Herbicides on Human Health
Have you noticed that?
Like literally nobody has Adam's apples anymore.
Seriously, go watch a
movie from the 1960s. Every guy looked like he swallowed a little golf ball.
Today, half the dudes on TikTok look like they moisturize with oat
milk and literally apologize
to their houseplants every day. What on earth happened to the Adam's apple?
It develops during puberty as testosterone changes the voice box.
No testosterone signal,
no dramatic neck fruit right here.
Now, here's where things get interesting.
Atrazine is one of the most widely used herbicides in America and has been detected
in water supplies all across the country.
A researcher named Tyrone
Hayes became famous after studies showing extremely low doses
of this affected the sexual reproductive systems in frogs.
They worry about the skull and crossbone chemicals.
Meanwhile, the stuff affecting our biology often arrives looking completely normal.
It's in the water, it's in the agricultural runoff,
it's in the foods we assume are healthy,
and it's exactly where nobody pays attention.
As a father, that's what absolutely gets me.
I spend my time looking at the quiet ones, the ones that nobody's talking about.
And for my family, organic whenever possible, especially higher exposed stuff
with glyphosate, a quality water filtration system is so key, my friends.
It's worth being a skeptic when it comes to your water supply.
The most dangerous things alive are rarely the things that look dangerous.
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