Quote by T. Colin Campbell

“There is a time and place for electromagnetic shielding and I regard it as a last resort due to the long term biological problems…

— Steven Magee

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to…

— Steven Pinker

Antioxidants are chemicals that break down or neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals - chemicals produced as a byproduct of normal cellular metabolism.

— David Perlmutter

“Plants do not attack with their poison and spine as humans do.They only defend.”

— tspkumar

“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] If nobody is spritzing chemicals on the predators, all a plant can do is toughen up by…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb…

— Andrew Weil

“As Dr. Gao reported, “Our data support the hypothesis that the formation of… compounds generated from oxidation of EPA and DHA in vivo can…

— David Perlmutter

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

— Joseph Joubert

“A plant has been defined as a living thing that absorbs in microscopic amounts over its surface all that it needs for growth. Through”

— Richard M. Ketchum

“That's what happened when the desert woodrats swallowed microbes that allowed them to detoxify the poisons in creosote bushes. It's what happens when the…

— Ed Yong

“Vitamin C also protects other tissues from free-radical damage. Whenever it encounters a free radical, it sacrifices one of its own electrons in order…

— Daniel P. Reid

You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world…

— Michael Pollan