Plant molecules, while potentially hormetic, can cause collateral damage because they are foreign to the human operating system.

“so the problem is that so forth a and will compete with iodine at the level of the thyroid and that is the collateral damage of these plant molecules they may have what we focus on in the literature when people want to sell you what these plant molecules is the idea that they have a benefit but what they don't see is that because they are foreign to humans they also have collateral damage”