Andrew Huberman· PhD
We then ingest those and get the benefits of activating our own defenses, because our food was getting stressed out.
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We then ingest those and get the benefits of activating our own defenses, because our food was getting stressed out.
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Plants also make molecules when they are stressed and we benefit by eating them, aka xenohormesis 5/10
Another study indicating that we probably should be eating more stressed out plants to trigger #xenohormesis, the plant-based activation of our body’s defenses against diseases & aging.
When plants experience dehydration/fungus/excess light, they make xenohormetic compounds: xeno (between species), hormesis (what doesn't kill u makes u stronger).
When plants experience adversity, they make xenohormetic compounds: xeno (between species), hormesis (what doesn't kill u makes u stronger).
Another example of #xenohormesis when plants produce stress molecules to survive and we’ve evolved to sense them so we can also prepare for adversity.
A “xenohormetin” is a molecule made by stressed plants that makes you healthier.
this idea of xenohormesis, this idea of eating plants that have, not just eating a plant-based diet, but specifically focusing on plants that have experienced stress.
Plants make these molecules to survive stress, and when we eat them, we get the benefits of that stress, because we worry, our bodies worry that our food supply might run out.
And there's probably other molecules. We talked previously in another episode about xenoic molecules. Plants make these molecules to survive stress and when we eat them, we get the benefits of that stress because we worry, our bodies worry that our food supply might run out.
And we think that...I think that when you ingest those molecules, the sirtuins have evolved to sense the plant world and if your food is stressed out, your body will hunker down and become fitter as a result of sensing that because, you know, we can see crops that are dying or if the water table's drying up, maybe we can sense that, but little animals that we evolved from or even, you know, a squirrel, it's too dumb to know that its food supply's stressed out, its body has to take care of that message.
And we call this xenohormesis, the idea that when we eat stressed plants, we get those molecules and they help our bodies.