A short transcript excerpt from the YouTube video "Plant Based: A Natural Antioxidant Boost" (Ben Greenfield, July 20, 2023). The speakers discuss whether benefits of eating high-flavanol/high-polyphenol plants arise from antioxidant compounds in the food or from hormesis — mild stress from these foods that stimulates endogenous antioxidant production and improves redox balance.
So just to clarify on that, so let's say you're eating a plant, like a high flavanol, high polyphenol plant, or having a big, you know, salad with mixed greens, et cetera, for lunch. Are you saying that the advantage of doing so is not necessarily the antioxidants that you're consuming from food sources, but the antioxidant production that occurs endogenously in response to some of the mild stress that those food sources present?
Right. That's what sometimes.
Like hormesis, like when we think about the concept of hormesis, a little bit of stress is good to kind of build that redox balance. And so I think that's where you're going with that, right, Michael?
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. And a similar sort of effect, you.
Know, it's kind of like.
No pain, no gain. Right. It's a similar sort of concept with any sort of exercise. You're breaking something down to stimulate, you know, an additional growth or repair mechanism of that, that entire system.
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