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		cmiller1 on Dec 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than elec... These "toxin" phytochemicals are often very healthy for humans in the levels found in typical foods and weird keto/carnivore diet nuts try to overstate their negative effects and minimize the positive ones. For example psoralen has "antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects" [1]. [1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.5715...

ta988 on Dec 4, 2023 | [–]

Those bioassays are also uterly unreliable and are done in conditions, especially concentrations that are nowhere near what happens in a human body.

shlant on Dec 4, 2023 | [–]

yea they love to cry wolf about "anti-nutrients" as well

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