inhibits the growth of various microorganisms and plants but is harmless to humans and animals
But what about gut biome? I would think if you injested this, it could seriously harm the natural (and good) biome inside of humans or animals. Am I misreading this?
Ingesting this could probably do some nasty things to your gut biome - but remember that we're talking about an herbicide. If you ingested most herbicides you'd be dead shortly after, so this could be much safer.
Edit - ingested herbicides at any meaningful quantity.
I think it's still reasonable to fear some ambient level of this stuff could do us harm over time despite being marketed as 'harmless'. See: asbestos.
Or heroin, cocaine, morphine, OxyContin, radioactive drinking water, bleeding the sick, DDT, Lead drinking vessels and pipes, doctors not washing their hands between an autopsy and a birth, taking antimony pills as a purgative, and... you get the idea.
Oh, great. More product to sterilize the soil and reduce microbiome. I've had farmers tell me that they wanted a more accurate free-carbon soil test because it was indicative of microbiome activity, and by extension indicative of healthy soil. Farmers know the importance of active microbiome in the soil and I suspect they won't want to kill it off as it will further increase the burden of farmers to overfertilize.
It says it targets prototrophs, which are microbes that use the same nutrients as the parent organism. In this case it appears the microbes have a similar metabolic pathway in common with plants to uptake the pseudo sugar.
It seems that the sugar mess with the creation of Tryptophan in microorganisms. We are unable to synthesize it, so we don't have this methabolic path. So far, so good. We could share our Tryptophan (from chocolate, milk, red meat, fish, eggs...) with the gut microbioma, solving the problem in part but:
1) It seems that tryptophan is related with control of inflamatory processes. I understand (but I could be wrong, is not my speciality) that therefore a healthy level of Tryptophan in gut protects us from developping crohn's disease and similar problems.
2) And as Tryptophan can be used to make serotonin and melatonin, It seems that badly stressed humans had yet low levels of Tryptophan. I'm hypothesizing that this sugar could be particularly harmful to them, even if is proven safe for non stressed people.
3) Tryptophan is needed for melatonin production.
4) And, low levels of tryptophan lead to obesity. Tryptophan triggers the "stop eating" satiety message, so stressed people typically eat continuously, and gain a lot of weight.
In spite the optimistic assertions at the beginning of the article like
> a newly discovered sugar molecule synthesized from cyanobacteria that inhibits the growth of various microorganisms and plants but is harmless to humans and animals
they actually agree with you. Near the end:
> However, effectiveness in the field, degradability in the soil and harmlessness to livestock and humans would have to be further investigated in comprehensive long-term studies for 7dSh.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 52.4 ms ] threadBut what about gut biome? I would think if you injested this, it could seriously harm the natural (and good) biome inside of humans or animals. Am I misreading this?
Edit - ingested herbicides at any meaningful quantity.
Or heroin, cocaine, morphine, OxyContin, radioactive drinking water, bleeding the sick, DDT, Lead drinking vessels and pipes, doctors not washing their hands between an autopsy and a birth, taking antimony pills as a purgative, and... you get the idea.
Herbicides are pesticides
Insecticides are pesticides
Pesticide is a blanket term
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And no, you don't want to touch insecticides; they are generally neurotoxins.
I grew up with a few....they bought the 1960s chemical company line what is good for Monsanto is good for farmers...
We need transparency.
1) It seems that tryptophan is related with control of inflamatory processes. I understand (but I could be wrong, is not my speciality) that therefore a healthy level of Tryptophan in gut protects us from developping crohn's disease and similar problems.
2) And as Tryptophan can be used to make serotonin and melatonin, It seems that badly stressed humans had yet low levels of Tryptophan. I'm hypothesizing that this sugar could be particularly harmful to them, even if is proven safe for non stressed people.
3) Tryptophan is needed for melatonin production.
4) And, low levels of tryptophan lead to obesity. Tryptophan triggers the "stop eating" satiety message, so stressed people typically eat continuously, and gain a lot of weight.
> a newly discovered sugar molecule synthesized from cyanobacteria that inhibits the growth of various microorganisms and plants but is harmless to humans and animals
they actually agree with you. Near the end:
> However, effectiveness in the field, degradability in the soil and harmlessness to livestock and humans would have to be further investigated in comprehensive long-term studies for 7dSh.