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Fruits and Vegetables Are Trying to Kill You - Issue 15: Turbulence - Nautilus

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Fruits and Vegetables Are Trying to Kill You - Issue 15: Turbulence - Nautilus : Reproduced from MOISES VELASQUEZ_MANOFF, with persmission. Hungarian & Romanian translations provided below; Eat foods grown naturally: For Romanian readers:   articolul citat  din Nautilus, acestă viziune este împărtăşită, printre alţii, de David Sinclair şi Konrad Howitz, de la harvard University. n the mid-20th century, as modern medicine seemed poised to vanquish the infectious diseases of yore, some scientists turned to the degenerative diseases associated with aging. Attention fell on a class of molecules called “reactive oxygen species,” or ROS. These volatile substances could damage DNA. Degenerative diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, often showed evidence of “oxidative stress,” suggesting that ROS spurred disease. Oddly, our mitochondria, the energy factories of our cells, emitted ROS naturally. So degenerative disease seemed to stem in part from our own metabolic functi