Paul Saladino· MD
Plants definitely have defense chemicals, some people are more sensitive than others.
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Plants definitely have defense chemicals, some people are more sensitive than others.
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people might be individually triggered by various plants on a sort of idiosyncratic basis there's it's hard to predict it
this is why creating a spectrum of plant toxicity is is a little bit challenging on an individual basis
there are a variety of toxins in plants and i think that there is a genetic variation in terms of what every individual is going to be able to tolerate
one of the things that I find so fascinating and perhaps this will become the focus of my future work is this spectrum of plant toxicity and how we can see which plants are more and less toxic.
so it makes sense like maybe plants are containing toxins that are problematic for humans and then the overarching sort of broader hypothesis would be what if some people are more sensitive to these plant toxins and that could be