Autism, ADHD, and Autoimmunity: Why Bandages Won’t Heal a Collapsing Terrain
For decades, the search for answers has circled the same culprits. Vaccines. Tylenol. Folate metabolism. Glutathione deficiency. The list grows, the debates rage, and the children keep coming. Every new “solution” promises relief, yet the numbers climb.
Yes, Tylenol weakens glutathione. Yes, leucovorin can prop up folate metabolism. These are real biochemical events. But let’s be clear: they are bandages, not cures. They patch holes in a dam while the foundation beneath it crumbles.
That foundation is the human microbiome.
The Love-Trio Collapse (The microbial gate keepers)
In condition after condition — autism, ADHD, Crohn’s, rheumatoid arthritis, eczema — the same keystone species are missing:
Akkermansia muciniphila
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii
Roseburia spp.
Call them the Love-Trio. They produce butyrate and other metabolites that seal the gut lining, regulate the immune system, and feed the brain with precursors for serotonin, dopamine, and acetylcholine.
When they are gone, everything becomes fragile: the immune system overreacts, the brain runs short of key neurotransmitters, detoxification grinds down, and the entire system becomes hypersensitive to every new chemical insult.
The Mid-90s Hiroshima
This collapse didn’t creep in slowly. It bent like a hockey stick in the 1990s. Autism diagnoses surged. ADHD rates exploded. Autoimmune conditions doubled and doubled again.
What changed?
Glyphosate & GMOs: Roundup Ready crops introduced in 1996 led to an unprecedented flood of glyphosate residues into the food supply. Glyphosate isn’t just a weed-killer — it disrupts the shikimate pathway in bacteria, crippling gut flora while sparing human cells. The Love-Trio were collateral damage.
Antibiotics: Already overused, the 90s saw an escalation in broad-spectrum prescribing — during pregnancy, during birth, in infancy. Each round stripped more keystone species.
C-sections and formula feeding: More infants were born without microbial seeding, then raised on sterile substitutes instead of breastmilk’s living bioactive soup.
It was a perfect storm. The Love-Trio didn’t just decline — they disappeared.
Bandages vs. Foundations
The Blunt Truth: Bandages vs. Root Cause
Autism, ADHD, autoimmune disease — modern medicine keeps throwing “bandages” at them. Tylenol avoidance. Folate patches. Leucovorin rescue. Each new headline promises a clue, a silver bullet. But none of it explains the explosion in cases since the 1990s. None of it explains why the body is so fragile in the first place.
The blunt truth is this: these are not bandage deficiencies. These are terrain failures. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
The Bandage Illusion
Tylenol strips glutathione. Folate patches improve methylation. Leucovorin sparks momentary improvement. These things are real, measurable. But they are not causes. They’re the fallout. They reveal that the terrain is already shattered.
If the foundation was intact, Tylenol wouldn’t cripple a child. Folate wouldn’t need to be artificially pumped in. Leucovorin wouldn’t feel like magic.
Every “bandage” points to the same hidden wound: the collapse of the microbiome, especially the Love Trio — Akkermansia, Faecalibacterium, Roseburia.
Without them, glutathione cycles break, folate cycles fail, acetylcholine signaling crumbles.
The mainstream says: “patch the wound.”
The terrain truth says: “stop tearing the body apart in the first place.”
Glyphosate & GMO: The Silent Microbiome Massacre
The Weapon They Hid in Plain Sight
Glyphosate wasn’t designed to kill humans directly. It was designed to kill plants and bacteria by blocking the shikimate pathway, an enzyme route humans supposedly “don’t have.” But our gut microbes do. Which means glyphosate is essentially an antibiotic — one that wipes out the very organisms keeping us alive.
Akkermansia, Faecalibacterium, Roseburia: depleted in autism, ADHD, and autoimmune disorders.
Glyphosate: shown in animal and in vitro studies to suppress exactly these butyrate-producing, mucin-regulating microbes.
Result: terrain collapse before life even begins.
Maternal Exposure: The First Strike
This isn’t just about eating pesticide-laced corn chips. Maternal exposure is far worse:
Rodent studies show glyphosate alters offspring gut microbiota, damages placental function, and primes neurodevelopmental disorders.
Embryonic exposure disrupts folate and methionine cycles — the same biochemical pathways we later try to “patch” with leucovorin or glutathione therapy.
Microbiome inheritance from mother to child is crippled before birth, ensuring that the “Love Trio” (Akkermansia, Faecalibacterium, Roseburia) never gets properly seeded.
This is the power clause: what mainstream science claims Tylenol might do (deplete glutathione, stress neurodevelopment), glyphosate has already been shown to do with far greater plausibility and mechanistic evidence.
When the womb terrain is poisoned, the child’s terrain never stood a chance.
The Timeline Nobody Wants to Admit
1974: Glyphosate introduced.
1996: Roundup Ready GMO crops flood the market.
1990s: Autism and autoimmune cases surge in lockstep.
2000s: ADHD, asthma, colitis, and food allergies explode.
Correlation? Yes. But when you map the mechanistic data — microbiome collapse, shikimate inhibition, maternal exposure, mitochondrial dysfunction — it looks less like correlation and more like causation.
Antibiotics: The Kill Shot
One round of antibiotics can annihilate Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, the anti-inflammatory keystone species. Decades of antibiotic overuse ensured that whatever fragments of microbiome survived glyphosate were finished off in childhood.
This explains the explosion of post-antibiotic syndromes: colitis, eczema, depression, ADHD. You can’t “out-supplement” the loss of an ecosystem architect.
Why Tylenol and Folate Seem Like Causes
Yes, Tylenol lowers glutathione. Yes, leucovorin helps folate cycles. But those are secondary explosions. Without glyphosate and antibiotic-driven microbiome collapse, the terrain could buffer them.
With the Trio intact: Tylenol stress would be tolerable. Vaccines wouldn’t trigger spirals. Folate cycles would self-repair.
Without the Trio: everything breaks.
Why This Matters More Than Tylenol or Vaccines
Tylenol strips glutathione. Vaccines trigger immune stress. Both are serious. But without glyphosate and antibiotics, the body might have coped. With a healthy Love Trio, most stressors are survivable.
Glyphosate removed the shield. Everything else was just bullets fired into the unarmored body.
References (selected, pre-2020 to dodge the retraction games)
Samsel A, Seneff S. Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome. Entropy. 2013.
Mesnage R, et al. Glyphosate Exposure in Humans and Animals: Review of Toxicity. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 2015.
Mao Q, et al. The Ramifications of Glyphosate on Gut Microbiota and Its Relationship to Autism. Toxicology Letters. 2018.
Pu Y, et al. Maternal Glyphosate Exposure Causes Autism-Like Behaviors in Offspring via Microbiome Disruption. Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry. 2019.
Zhan H, et al. Glyphosate Affects Gut Microbiota and Causes Metabolic Changes. Environmental Pollution. 2018.
The Blunt Truth (again)
Glyphosate didn’t just kill weeds. It assassinated the microbiome. It poisoned the womb. It primed the terrain collapse that Tylenol, vaccines, and processed food only finished off.
If the Trio (Akkermansia, Faecalibacterium, Roseburia) had survived, we might have had a shield. Instead, an entire generation grew up unarmored.
stop the silo Thinking
Autism, ADHD, and autoimmunity aren’t caused by a single villain. They are what happens when the human terrain collapses. When the Love-Trio vanish, the entire orchestra of health plays off-key.
Vaccines, Tylenol, environmental toxins — they matter, but only as triggers hitting a fragile system.
Glyphosate, GMOs, and antibiotics were the Hiroshima — the bomb that made the terrain collapse permanent.
No supplement, no bandage, no single pill will reverse this.
The only path forward is terrain restoration. Natural birth where possible. Breastfeeding. Real food, free of glyphosate and ultra-processing. Antibiotics only when life is on the line. Fermented foods. Soil exposure. And most of all, rebuilding the Love-Trio.
A Final Thought
Because when the Trio returns, the foundation holds again. And when the foundation holds, the bandages aren’t needed.
