COVID-19 Reveals
a New Metabolism Paradigm
By Stephanie Seneff,
B.S., M.S., E.E., Ph.D.
COVID-19 has hit the world by storm, but only some parts of the world. In particular, as of Oct 22, 2020, the top 23 countries ranked by death rate per 100,000 population were all in either the Americas or Europe [1].
The mortality rate is strikingly different from one country to another. For example, Taiwan and Vietnam have had only 0.03 and 0.04 deaths per 100,000 respectively, whereas the 23 top countries all have a death rate greater than 38 per 100,000 – a factor of 1000 difference or three orders of magnitude.
I have previously proposed that an overlooked factor in COVID-19 mortality statistics is the impact of chronic glyphosate exposure. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the pervasive herbicide Roundup, and it is very commonly used to control weeds in large industrialized farms or as a desiccant just before harvest. It has become clear that a number of comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity are risk factors for a severe case of COVID-19. In the United States, these chronic diseases are rising in the population exactly in step with the rise in the use of glyphosate on core crops [2]. I believe that glyphosate is the primary factor causing an epidemic in these diseases.
Most concerning to me is the possibility that glyphosate is getting released into the atmosphere as a consequence of the biofuel industry. The United States, Brazil, Argentina, and most European countries have all played a leadership role in developing technology to enable waste from the food industry to be converted into useful fuel. Sources for such fuel include the residue of crops following the harvest, manure and by-products of the meat-processing industry, waste oil from restaurants, and wood scraps from the paper-manufacturing industry. All of these can be expected to be contaminated with glyphosate. Cities where biodiesel, biofuel for heating oil, aviation biofuel, bioethanol and/or biogas are being rapidly ramped up, are likely to be badly impacted by COVID-19, because glyphosate exposure through breathing disrupts immune function in the lungs, interfering with the ability to rapidly clear the SARS CoV-2 virus [3]. I wrote about this in an earlier article in Masters of Health [4].