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DESCRIPTION: Plants and animal share similar biochemical pathways and signaling systems, which may explain why so many phytonutrients are beneficial to our physiology.
The aspirin story is fascinating: Aspirin Levels in Plant Foods (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspirin-levels-in-plant-foods/).
This whole co-evolution concept reminds me of Human Neurotransmitters In Plants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/human-neurotransmitters-in-plants/) and The Broccoli Receptor: Our First Line of Defense (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-broccoli-receptor-our-first-line-of-defense-2/).<
More on the power of plants in Power Plants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/power-plants/).
Some of the wilder things that Phytochemicals: The Nutrition Facts Missing from the Label (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/phytochemicals-the-nutrition-facts-missing-from-the-label/) can do are explored in:
• Prevent Glaucoma and See 27 Miles Further (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prevent-glaucoma-and-see-27-miles-farther/)
• Keeping Your Hands Warm With Citrus (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/keeping-your-hands-warm-with-citrus/)
• How to Slow Brain Aging By Two Years (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-slow-brain-aging-by-two-years/)
We evolved eating a lot of plants: Paleolithic Lessons (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/paleolithic-lessons/).
Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/appropriating-plant-defenses/ and he’ll try to answer it!
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Genius as always Dr.Greger thanks for spreading TRUTH !!
Love your "dad" jokes Dr. G. 🙂
Fun-guy!
Thank you Dr. Greger!
Awesome video. Thank you!
ouch –that pun! Thanks, Dr Greger…great stuff as usual
And all you get from meat is E-coli, Salmonella, Mercury…
That is fascinating! So how do we find stressed out fruit and veggies?
Fascinating, thanks!
Yes yes yes. Very very enlightening information here. I'm keeping this one.
so do they suffer in the same way when we butcher them, chop them up and eat them alive or boil them or burn them as a pig?
Awesome like always Dr Gregor, thanks for sharing !!
Very interesting!
That's why certain people who are involved passionately with gardening often talk to the plants and they do response in their own way. As if they know exactly whats been said to them, they often grow healthier and quicker.
Ive been saying, humans are just plants who can walk
and everything is electric energy or potential to be energy
What a nice guy, what a fungi! Dr. Greger, don't ever change!
Plants figured it out ,,,please,, it's all designed
I learn something new everyday. I can just see some people using this as a reason NOT to go vegan saying that plants respond and even have feelings, too. No matter, I am still going to eat and make use of them, just taking care to be responsible and not wasteful about it.
Nobody has said it, so I will: Dr. G…you are a fun guy 🙂
My theory on this is that the plants focus on increasing the likelyhood that their seeds will grow to adults by giving more nutrients to their fruits when stressed
Great video!!!
Would be good to see a video on astaxanthin
Plant power baby! I just did a 60 mile ride on my bike in 3 hours. Vegans rock! Been vegan for years and feeling great.
Why are so many plant phytonutrients beneficial to human physiology?
Watch below or click the link to watch on NutritionFacts.org: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/appropriating-plant-defenses
Amazing info. Thanks for sharing man!
Thanks Dr. Gregor!