There are so many viruses in our gut and in our bloodstream and in our breath and in the air around us. There's 10 to the 31 viruses in the ocean, 10 to the 31 viruses in the air we breathe, 10 to the 30 viruses in the soil around us. And our physiology, like the ACE receptor, is built to absorb all of that genetic update.
Jefferey Smith (19:47):
So we have the stressor as glyphosate causing the body to say: I need more viral patches to upgrade the system.
Dr. Zach Bush (20:16):
I miscommunicated that. I’m sorry to stop you, but you asked me to when I miscommunicate. My miscommunication there is the glyphosate was causing an extinction event in the microbiome, so it's destroying life within the biology. The biology in response is sending out tons of variations genetically to say: We have to find an adaptation out of this or we're going to go extinct. So the pressure of the toxin was creating the level of stress to demand this explosion of genetic variability.
Jefferey Smith (20:40):
Okay, that makes more sense to me, because otherwise it would be generic stress. And the fact that it was actually destroying the knowledge bank...
Dr. Zach Bush: That's right.