Plants have evolved defense chemicals over millions of years because they are immobile and cannot escape predators, unlike animals which can run, kick, or bite.

“if you look at plants they don't want to get eaten and you know I think there are some people who are more tolerant to plant anti nutrients and toxins than others”

“you evolve toxins you evolve defenses because you are rooted in space you evolve plant toxins and this is reality this is real”

“how our plants defending themselves they can't run away they've had to evolve chemicals”

“plants have had to develop defense chemicals many of which are quite beneficial within medicine today some of which we use as medications or chemotherapies but there's a lot of chemicals and plants there are like these chemical factories and there's been this warfare between plants and animals for generations you know millions of years hundreds of millions of years”

“plants are they're stuck in the ground so 450 500 million years of co-evolution between animals and plants plants have had to develop defense chemicals many of which are quite beneficial within medicine today some of which we use as medications or chemotherapies but there's a lot of chemicals in plants they're like these chemical factories and there's been this warfare between plants and animals for generations you know millions of years hundreds of millions of years”