Dr. Zach Bush

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The Joe Rogan Experience · #2529 - Zach Bush · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

1973, we have the end of a world war, really, with its economic drain.

Vietnam War was this massive drain on economic systems, disrupted all kinds of things.

And then suddenly it's over.

And a little company called Monsanto that was producing Agent Orange needed a new economy.

And so they repurposed themselves into a chemical cleaner for industrial pipes.

And they bought a patent from a Japanese inventor, put this patent in the late 1950s for something called glyphosate.

Bought that patent in 1974, and they were using it to clean industrial pipes because it has an amazing ability to grab minerals and pull it out of circulation.

So they were dumping lots of this down these clogged pipes of manufacturing facilities, and it would clean the pipes out beautifully.

But the problem was as soon as the effluent got out into the river, it would kill all the fish and everything else, and so it was clearly not going to get past any environmental protection.

So they needed a different purpose for their stuff at lower concentrations.

And so they repatented in 1976 as a weed killer and rolled it out as Roundup, which would become the most successful weed killer in history.

But this molecule had been already in use, and this organophosphate family of molecules had already been killing life throughout Cambodia and Vietnam.

Those people got displaced, and I grew up with them in Boulder, Colorado, in government housing.

And those Hmong people showed us something of biology.

They're the most poisoned peoples on the planet.

And they showed no metabolic collapse.

They showed no decline in health.

They didn't have explosion of cancer or anything else.

They should have because we know that Agent Orange causes cancer.

And they showed me, as young as I was at the time, three, four years old, growing up with these Hmong people in gardens.

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