If you starve plants, they do the same thing mammals do: activate preservation pathways. So, let the plants face the adversity to create the molecules that trigger cell stress resistance, alter metabolism, and improve disease resistance. Then, we can just capture them for the same uses in our own body. The fact that many phytonutrients act as “dietary restriction mimetics,” in that they mimic the physiological effects of dietary restriction, may be no coincidence. The plants produce these compounds to save their own green butts from scarcity. So, instead of having to starve, thanks to
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