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Why Viruses Are Crucial To Life On This Planet, The Link Between Air Pollution, Glyphosate & Pandemics, Loss Of Biodiversity (& What We Can Do About It) & More With Dr. Zach Bush.

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Evolution of Herpes Viruses

In 1967, there was already HIV in the human blood bank in the United States. And yet we didn't have a first case of AIDS until the early 80s. Since 1976, we've seen 12,800 new quote unquote pandemics of influenza in about 120 other common respiratory viruses that will continue to change at this accelerated rate and cause disease at a rate never been seen before. We are now spraying around 4.5 billion pounds of glyphosate and Roundup compounds into the soils of the earth annually. That number has doubled over the last 25 years or so. It's well known that 85% of our soybeans and some 95% of our corn and wheat can be found genetically modified

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