Joe Rogan Experience #2562 - Dan McClellan · Aired Oct 7, 2026
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Glyphosate and herbicides are a real problem in the American diet, and a lot of people have extreme sensitivities to them, perhaps from prolonged exposure, which may explain why some people do well on a no-fiber carnivore diet.
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Rogan said glyphosate and other herbicides are "a real problem" in the American diet and that "a lot of people have extreme sensitivities" to them. He added that it is hard to sort out. Glyphosate is a hypothesis people have proposed, but nobody has shown it. A Lead Stories fact check quotes celiac experts calling the glyphosate link a hypothesis, "not something that has been proven". It also quotes the 2017 Frontiers in Public Health review, which found the main glyphosate-disease theories "not supported by the available scientific evidence". I found no human study showing that glyphosate residues cause widespread severe food sensitivities or explain carnivore-diet benefits. This claim would flip if a human study showed typical dietary glyphosate exposure causing food sensitivities that improve on a carnivore diet.
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Is it true that Glyphosate and herbicides are a real problem in the American diet, and a lot of people have extreme sensitivities to them, perhaps from prolonged exposure, which may explain why some people do well on a no-fiber carnivore diet?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Rogan said glyphosate and other herbicides are "a real problem" in the American diet and that "a lot of people have extreme sensitivities" to them. He added that it is hard to sort out. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2562 - Dan McClellan, aired Oct 7, 2026, at 5:40. The supporting source is leadstories.com, linked below.
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