GMOs and Autoimmunity

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Hi Dr. Martin Rutherford here and today’s question is what are your thoughts about GMOs being a huge contributor to the
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rise of autoimmunity if the food this is the rest of the question if the food we ingest is seen as a foreign as foreign
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by the immune system wouldn’t it make sense that these frankenfoods would trigger the autoimmune response so
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that’s it that’s a good question it’s a great question because it’s a question that we struggled with early on
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everybody in kind of what I call the dark ages of autoimmunity in the dark ages of chronic pain were looking for
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the the answer and it was parasites we’re gonna be the answer and GMOs are gonna be the answer heavy metals were
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going to be the answer and the lime was gonna be the answer and epstein-barr virus was gonna be the answer and on and
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on and on and so it turns out that none of them were the answer but all of them could potentially have an a be a player
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in a person’s autoimmune problem so if I had a hundred people come in here with Hashimoto’s or a hundred people coming
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here with fibromyalgia and if you genuinely have fibromyalgia I guarantee you you have an autoimmune problem but
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it can all be different everyone could be different so GMOs definitely can be a huge contributor your your assessment
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that if it comes into the system and and it’s seen as a foreign antibody you know foreign by the immune system and anybody
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is going to be made to it it’s correct there’s more to it than that depending on the food’s the the I do I I have
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become I have come to embrace the idea of the of the fertilizers and and the roundup and and and those types of
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chemicals being being a part of it when you get to gluten gluten it’s it’s it’s a sticky
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protein so the gluten actually damages the inside of the intestines so a it’s a part of it there’s there’s if if it
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depends on how compromised the patient is as to how much those foods actually will contribute to creating immune
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response or our go as far as creating a chemical sensitivity people who are walking around who don’t have
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autoimmunity I would say that the GMOs are not creating the autoimmunity but I would say they what once the person has
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developed an auto immunity I would say they’re definitely a perpetuating factor to the autoimmunity so that’s quite a
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topic it’s it’s a topic I probably could spend a couple of hours on but I think that kind of encompasses the the general
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basics of what of what you’re asking so should you avoid GMOs if you have an autoimmune problem
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maybe the gist of that question the answer would be yes the answer would be you definitely would want to eat fresh
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fruits fresh fresh vegetables the old grass-fed beef and and bite the bullet and do that that brings you into the
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gray area of well can I go to this store and buy non-organic food and so on and so forth you can but you would better be
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better off when they confirmed the autoimmunity you would be better off staying away from the GMOs