glyphosate,
the nature of viruses, and GUT HEAlth
zach bush, M.D.
Interviewed by
Jefferey Smith
Dr. Zach Bush (01:05)
Viruses, if we back up for a moment, have been largely miscategorized as part of the microbiome. The microbiome [is] composed of two obvious words--the first, “micro,” meaning small, the second means “biome,” which means living organism. It turns out that viruses do not fall into that category of microbiome because they're not actually living organisms. They do not produce energy. They can't reproduce. They're literally a package of genetic information. They don't have any enzymes that can reproduce that DNA within them or anything else. They are really a communication network of the genome, so viruses as a category have been miscategorized into the microbiome for many years. In fact if you read a definition of the microbiome, it'll often include viruses, but if you then ask why viruses, it'll say, Well because they're really, really small.
Dr. Zach Bush (01:32):
They drop the second word, “bio,” and say since they are super, super small, we should just call it the microbiome anyway. That seems like a relatively small mistake to make, unless it turns out that you then take all of your experiential… you know, germ theory that you've developed around bacteria, and gangrene as we started understanding it in the civil war, and everything else, and then apply that to a non-living life form like a virus, it turns out we misconstrue the entire matrix of the virome. The virome is its own ecosystem of genomic information that's emerging from bacteria and multicellular life. At least 50%--and I won't be sur¬prised if it's 95% in the end, but at least 50%--of the genomic information that we call viruses is being exuded by bacteria, and those we call bacteriophage.
LIVE: ZACH BUSH MD on COVID-19, glyphosate, and the nature of viruses, 18 June, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/responsibletechnology/videos/663965114184267/?v=631000744438416
Jefferey Smith (00:09):
Okay, I'm with Zach Bush, Dr. Zach Bush, who is an amazing man. Zach--COVID-19 and glyphosate and the nature of viruses. Give us your impression about what COVID-19 is all about, and how glyphosate or a component of Roundup might be causing extra problems there.