We’re Defending
the Microbiome

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We’re Defending
the Microbiome

“We are the ones who understand more than anyone else the impact of a positive microbiome and the impact of a negative microbiome. … And hopefully, we’ll be able to get this message to all of our patients, all of our clients, so that they then start to understand a little more about this topic of altered DNA in our food chain and in our environment…
The number of gene edited microbes flooding the environment every year is growing exponentially, threatening to promote widespread disease and damage ecosystems.
Basic CRISPR gene editing labs cost less than $2000, allowing even high school students and home hobbyists to join academics and businesses that are releasing genetically modified (GM) microorganisms with little or no oversight. Engineered microorganisms may travel and exchange genes with other microbes, altering the microbiomes inside of us, in the soil, in the oceans, everywhere.

Jeff Bland says, “We don’t have guardrails, guidelines and oversight on how to regulate it. We need to do something right now.” That is why the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), founded by Jeffrey Smith, is mobilizing support for new regulations, laws, and international treaties to protect the microbiome. IRT helped build the non-GMO movement around the world, and now we are creating a new movement to address this urgent existential threat.

We need your help. Please make a generous donation today. 

In appreciation for your gift, you will gain access to educational assets curated from IRT’s 20 years as a leader in education about GMOs and Roundup. And you will join a community of like-minded practitioners who are joining to protect this precious and critical aspect of life on earth.

As a healthcare practitioner, you recognize the critical importance of the microbiome perhaps more than any other profession. They need you to be their champions.

Protect the Microbiome

“We are the ones who understand more than anyone else the impact of a positive microbiome and the impact of a negative microbiome. … And hopefully, we’ll be able to get this message to all of our patients, all of our clients, so that they then start to understand a little more about this topic of altered DNA in our food chain and in our environment…

I can breathe a little easier knowing that I’m doing this much to help protect the future generations.”

The number of gene edited microbes flooding the environment every year is growing exponentially, threatening to promote widespread disease and damage ecosystems.
Basic CRISPR gene editing labs cost less than $2000, allowing even high school students and home hobbyists to join academics and businesses that are releasing genetically modified (GM) microorganisms with little or no oversight. Engineered microorganisms may travel and exchange genes with other microbes, altering the microbiomes inside of us, in the soil, in the oceans, everywhere.

Jeff Bland says, “We don’t have guardrails, guidelines and oversight on how to regulate it. We need to do something right now.” That is why the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), founded by Jeffrey Smith, is mobilizing support for new regulations, laws, and international treaties to protect the microbiome. IRT helped build the non-GMO movement around the world, and now we are creating a new movement to address this urgent existential threat.

We need your help. Please make a generous donation today. 

In appreciation for your gift, you will gain access to educational assets curated from IRT’s 20 years as a leader in education about GMOs and Roundup. And you will join a community of like-minded practitioners who are joining to protect this precious and critical aspect of life on earth.

As a healthcare practitioner, you recognize the critical importance of the microbiome perhaps more than any other profession. They need you to be their champions.

Protect the Microbiome

JOIN A COALITION LED BY PRACTITIONERS

“IRT is spearheading the global effort to protect the microbiome from the potentially devastating impacts of genetically engineered microbes. Please support IRT with a generous donation. Our health and that of our planet are in the balance!”

HYLA CASS, MD
AUTHOR OF 8 WEEKS TO VIBRANT HEALTH

“The microbiome basically dictates the vast majority of what happens in our body…In fact, being human is really being an ecosystem for microbes, and when we disrupt that ecosystem, we disrupt fundamentally who we are and how we function.”

KIRAN KRISHNAN
RESEARCH MICROBIOLOGIST

“I’m very, very happy to support IRT. I can breathe a little easier knowing that I’m doing this much to help protect the future generations.”

DR. TOM O’BRYAN, DC, DABCN, CIFM
EXPERT ON AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE, GLUTEN AND BRAIN HEALTH

“Protecting the microbiome is the perfect cause that we practitioners can rally around. It’s an honor and a privilege to safeguard these kingdoms. I support IRT’s work to stop the release of potentially dangerous genetically engineered microbes and encourage other practitioners to join me.”

JJ VIRGIN, CNS, BCHN, EP-C
CELEBRITY NUTRITION AND FITNESS EXPERT

“This is the time for us all to join in a collaborative effort in protecting our microbiome.”

JEFF BLAND, PHD
KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

“We need to support IRT. Without regulatory control of these microorganisms that are being genetically modified and leaked into the environment, we run a huge risk of disrupting our own health and the health of the soil and plants that we depend on.”

JOSEPH PIZZORNO, NP
EDITOR IN CHIEF OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: A CLINICIAN’S JOURNAL

JOIN A COALITION LED BY PRACTITIONERS

“IRT is spearheading the global effort to protect the microbiome from the potentially devastating impacts of genetically engineered microbes. Please support IRT with a generous donation. Our health and that of our planet are in the balance!”

HYLA CASS, MD
AUTHOR OF 8 WEEKS TO VIBRANT HEALTH

“The microbiome basically dictates the vast majority of what happens in our body…In fact, being human is really being an ecosystem for microbes, and when we disrupt that ecosystem, we disrupt fundamentally who we are and how we function.”

KIRAN KRISHNAN
RESEARCH MICROBIOLOGIST

“I’m very, very happy to support IRT. I can breathe a little easier knowing that I’m doing this much to help protect the future generations.”

DR. TOM O’BRYAN, DC, DABCN, CIFM
EXPERT ON AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE, GLUTEN AND BRAIN HEALTH

“Protecting the microbiome is the perfect cause that we practitioners can rally around. It’s an honor and a privilege to safeguard these kingdoms. I support IRT’s work to stop the release of potentially dangerous genetically engineered microbes and encourage other practitioners to join me.”

JJ VIRGIN, CNS, BCHN, EP-C
CELEBRITY NUTRITION AND FITNESS EXPERT

“This is the time for us all to join in a collaborative effort in protecting our microbiome.”

JEFF BLAND, PHD
KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

“We need to support IRT. Without regulatory control of these microorganisms that are being genetically modified and leaked into the environment, we run a huge risk of disrupting our own health and the health of the soil and plants that we depend on.”

JOSEPH PIZZORNO, NP
EDITOR IN CHIEF OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: A CLINICIAN’S JOURNAL

Experts explain why it’s urgent to protect the microbiome

In this video, five experts, Jeff Bland, Tom O’Bryan, Kiran Krishnan, Joe Pizzorno, and Jeffrey Smith, explain why unregulated GM microbes pose unprecedented threats. They discuss how:
  • The microbiome is critical to life;
  • GM microbes carry unpredictable, even inheritable dangers;
  • They might transfer altered genes into our microbiomes, damaging our health;
  • They may also devastate the environment;
  • GM microbes released on farms might inadvertently promote disease;
  • The need for responsible governance is absolutely urgent; and
  • Healthcare practitioners, who understand the microbiome’s critical importance, are the natural choice to be its protectors.
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Protecting the Microbiome with IRT has its perks

Join our community of conscious healthcare practitioners, protect the microbiome, and enhance your practice at the same time.

Your generous donation (minimum $240 per year or $20 per month – for a limited time only) provides you with immediate access to these invaluable materials* for yourself and your patients.

Join the Community

Unlock 20+ years of tools and elevate your practice.
Understand which diseases and disorders are linked to GMOs and Roundup. (GMO Health Education Module)
Learn how to detox, repair, and rebuild after exposure to GMOs and glyphosate. (Healing from GMOs Expert Summit)
Discover the unprecedented risks of gene editing and other GMO 2.0 technologies. (GMO 2.0 Module)
Get tools and training to bring this important information to your community.
Access the life-changing movie Secret Ingredients, by Jeffrey Smith and Amy Hart.
Share experiences and protocols with other practitioners in our Members-Only Community.
Receive regular insights and updates in our Community Newsletter. Get invaluable patient education materials.

Protecting the Microbiome with IRT has its perks

Join our community of conscious healthcare practitioners, protect the microbiome, and enhance your practice at the same time.

Your generous donation (minimum $240 per year or $20 per month – for a limited time only) provides you with immediate access to these invaluable materials* for yourself and your patients.

Join the Community

Unlock 20+ years of tools and elevate your practice.
Understand which diseases and disorders are linked to GMOs and Roundup. (GMO Health Education Module)
Learn how to detox, repair, and rebuild after exposure to GMOs and glyphosate. (Healing from GMOs Expert Summit)
Discover the unprecedented risks of gene editing and other GMO 2.0 technologies. (GMO 2.0 Module)
Get tools and training to bring this important information to your community.
Access the life-changing movie Secret Ingredients, by Jeffrey Smith and Amy Hart.
Share experiences and protocols with other practitioners in our Members-Only Community.
Receive regular insights and updates in our Community Newsletter. Get invaluable patient education materials.

Join and gain a library of access

Connect with Jeffrey Smith and a community of like-minded practitioners.
Stay informed about the cutting-edge developments to heal from GMOs.
Utilize tools and resources to help you better educate your patients.

Better track the cause of diseases

A message from Jeffrey Smith, Founding Executive Director of IRT and Bestselling Author of Seeds of Deception & Genetic Roulette.
GAIN ACCESS HERE
We can now link GMOs and glyphosate to a long list of diseases, connecting the dots between modes of action, animal feeding studies, consumer reporting, clinical findings, and stunning epidemiological correlations.
I conducted informal audience surveys at over 125 lectures (including about two dozen health practitioner conferences) identifying 28 conditions that often improved after people switched to non-GMO or organic diets. Digestive health was consistently the #1 reported benefit.
 
IRT then surveyed 3,256 people, which strengthened the link to the 28 conditions. Digestive disorders again topped the list (85%), followed by fatigue (60%), overweight (54%), brain fog (51%), anxiety/depression (51%), food allergies (50%), etc. Results were peer-reviewed and published in the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. The article included a deep dive showing how GMOs, glyphosate, and Bt-toxin (produced in GM corn) can
lead to digestive damage.

I continue to work with practitioners and scientists gathering data to support links to other conditions. For some disorders, causative pathways appear straightforward. Glyphosate, for example, interferes with the shikimate pathway, which is used by our gut bacteria to produce L-tryptophan and tyrosine. These amino acids are precursors to serotonin and dopamine. This might explain some of the correlations between increased use of glyphosate-based herbicides and conditions related to deficiencies in these important neurotransmitters.

Serotonin, for example, is converted to melatonin, which governs sleep. Insomnia has risen sharply in close correlation with increased use of glyphosate (R=09749). One third of our survey respondents reported improvements in insomnia after a diet change. Practitioners also confirm this as a regular benefit for patients who switch to organic diets.
 
Our new healthcare practitioner community is the perfect place for us to explore these data, share case studies and protocols, and better understand the impacts and treatment options for GMO and glyphosate-related disorders. My hope is that we can help get this information out to the wider profession and to those suffering from these conditions. (IRT also has some very effective educational modules to help with patient compliance.)

Furthermore, GMO microbes are already in circulation and may be impacting the health of the population. Our practitioner community can become the de facto surveillance team, looking for human microbiome changes that need to be investigated and addressed.

Better track the cause of diseases

A message from Jeffrey Smith, Founding Executive Director of IRT and Bestselling Author of Seeds of Deception & Genetic Roulette.
We can now link GMOs and glyphosate to a long list of diseases, connecting the dots between modes of action, animal feeding studies, consumer reporting, clinical findings, and stunning epidemiological correlations.
I conducted informal audience surveys at over 125 lectures (including about two dozen health practitioner conferences) identifying 28 conditions that often improved after people switched to non-GMO or organic diets. Digestive health was consistently the #1 reported benefit.
 
IRT then surveyed 3,256 people, which strengthened the link to the 28 conditions. Digestive disorders again topped the list (85%), followed by fatigue (60%), overweight (54%), brain fog (51%), anxiety/depression (51%), food allergies (50%), etc. Results were peer-reviewed and published in the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. The article included a deep dive showing how GMOs, glyphosate, and Bt-toxin (produced in GM corn) can
lead to digestive damage.

I continue to work with practitioners and scientists gathering data to support links to other conditions. For some disorders, causative pathways appear straightforward. Glyphosate, for example, interferes with the shikimate pathway, which is used by our gut bacteria to produce L-tryptophan and tyrosine. These amino acids are precursors to serotonin and dopamine. This might explain some of the correlations between increased use of glyphosate-based herbicides and conditions related to deficiencies in these important neurotransmitters.

Serotonin, for example, is converted to melatonin, which governs sleep. Insomnia has risen sharply in close correlation with increased use of glyphosate (R=09749). One third of our survey respondents reported improvements in insomnia after a diet change. Practitioners also confirm this as a regular benefit for patients who switch to organic diets.
 
Our new healthcare practitioner community is the perfect place for us to explore these data, share case studies and protocols, and better understand the impacts and treatment options for GMO and glyphosate-related disorders. My hope is that we can help get this information out to the wider profession and to those suffering from these conditions. (IRT also has some very effective educational modules to help with patient compliance.)

Furthermore, GMO microbes are already in circulation and may be impacting the health of the population. Our practitioner community can become the de facto surveillance team, looking for human microbiome changes that need to be investigated and addressed.

Calling all microbiome whisperers

Please heed the call to protect the microbiome, and thereby help safeguard the health of people everywhere, our precious earth, and future generations.
“We need to have regulations and guideposts as to how to manage this technology, which do not exist today. The effort of the Institute for Responsible Technology is to help us to develop those guidelines and those guardrails. This is a time when all of us need to be behind this particular advocacy. I urge you to be a supporter of the Institute for Responsible Technology.
Our microbiome is our treasure that we need to protect.”

JEFF BLAND, PHD
KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

I will join with the practitioner community to protect our microbiome

Calling all microbiome whisperers

Please heed the call to protect the microbiome, and thereby help safeguard the health of people everywhere, our precious earth, and future generations.
“We need to have regulations and guideposts as to how to manage this technology, which do not exist today. The effort of the Institute for Responsible Technology is to help us to develop those guidelines and those guardrails. This is a time when all of us need to be behind this particular advocacy. I urge you to be a supporter of the Institute for Responsible Technology.
Our microbiome is our treasure that we need to protect.”

JEFF BLAND, PHD
KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

I will join with the practitioner community to protect our microbiome