Rhonda Patrick· PhD
And so basically what nature's doing is trading long-term health for short-term health. And it wants short-term survival.
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And so basically what nature's doing is trading long-term health for short-term health. And it wants short-term survival.
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you know, that the vitamins and minerals that you're getting, of course, your body's gonna find a way to make sure that you can maintain short-term survival so you can reproduce and pass on your genes, but, you know, the consequence of these vitamins and minerals that are required for proteins that are needed to maintain long-term function.