14/08/2025
Great info.
Keep in mind, organic food is more expensive because food lobbyists make sure subsidies are given to lower quality produce that ends up in low quality food. A country focusing on a healthy population could change subsidies, and pesticide-free produce would suddenly be more expensive than organic.
A 2019 study published in the journal Environmental Research titled “Organic diet intervention significantly reduces urinary pesticide levels in U.S. children and adults” highlighted that diet is the primary source of pesticide exposure in both children and adults in the United States. It found that an organic diet significantly reduced neonicotinoid, OP pyrethroid, 2,4-D exposure, with the greatest reduction observed in malathion, clothianidin, and chlorpyrifos.
The researchers noted that all of us are exposed “to a cocktail of toxic synthetic pesticides linked to a range of health problems from our daily diets.” They explain how “certified organic food is produced without these pesticides,” and ask the question, “Can eating organic really reduce levels of pesticides in our bodies?” They tested four American families that don’t typically eat organic food to find out. All pesticides detected in the body dropped an average of 60.5% after just six days on an organic diet.
Keep in mind, pesticide levels in blood and urine are not the only way to determine whether there is toxicity; it's just the easiest. When the body cannot handle toxic load in the blood and via urine, it often pushes things into the tissues. So while you can test blood and urine and it may show nothing, the toxins can still be in the tissues. The medical community only does not recognize this because their testing methods stop at looking at the blood or urine - which is not ideal.
