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Max Lugavere || MBPP Ep. 837

Mark Bell's Power Project

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Polyphenols Are Plant Defense Compounds?

The high polyphenol Intervention that seem to improve cognitive function and boost levels of BDNF How are they trying to kill us if they're actually improving the way that our brains work? So I think part of it has to do with I think there's two potential mechanisms here one is at its horn Mises right which is like when low doses of a of a toxin or a stress actually elicits uh protective and beneficial response in us. There's the alternative hypothesis that they actually act like prebiotics so we know that prebiotics like fiber like resistance starch are beneficial to gut bacteria, but polyphenols are also prebiotic.

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