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#066 Dr. Mark Mattson on the Benefits of Stress, Metabolic Switching, Fasting, and Hormesis

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Is Supulofane Good for Health?

i was invited to write an article for scientific american on this general notion that the reason fruits and vegetables are good for health is not because ther are pree radical scavaging things like videmen or sea can help in certain ways getting rid of free radicals. That's not the answerat the answer isn't that we want to swamp ourselves with things that sop up free radicals, because actually, pre radicals are important in ourselves for normal signalling and in our adaptive responses to stress. Instead, the chemicals that aregood for health seem to be acting by triggering mild adaptive stress responses in ourselves. There are many that overlap quite a bit with exercise and fasting. They're concentrated in the parts

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