Sentences with phrase «plant toxins like»

What's more, grapes contain no defensive plant toxins like oxalates, but they are a member of the high FODMAP fruit club.

Finally, carrot contains very few natural plant toxins like cucurbitacins in cucumber or tomatine in tomato, and those which do exist are extremely safe for acne.

This supports recent research suggesting that younger adult women in traditional societies avoid plant toxins like nicotine to protect infants from harmful biochemicals, but that older women can consume these intoxicants as needed or desired.»

Not exact matches

For instance, it acts like a «chemical processing plant» which transforms toxins into water - soluble substances that can be easily eliminated from the body.

Gloria Coruzzi and her colleagues at New York University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong suspected that these toxins may also be part of plant signaling system, and so they set out to see if plants had proteins like glutamate receptors.

Most plants are laced with bitter — and potentially harmful — toxins like cyanide, nicotine, and ricin to deter hungry herbivores.

Pathogens can include viruses and bacteria that damage the plant itself or bacteria like the Shiga - toxin producing E. coli O104: H4.

Bio-indicators are plants and animals that scientists use to monitor the presence of toxins in the environment (like the miners» canaries, whose lives depended on an adequate supply of breathable air).

Eventually your liver gets backed up, kind of like a sewage processing plant (yes I know, I can't help myself), and you no longer process and remove those toxins as well as you used to.

Just like seaweeds and chai seeds, it's a gelatinous plant meaning it absorbs toxins as it moves through the body and eliminates this waste.

In the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox, Dr. Steven Gundry introduced readers to the hidden toxins lurking in seemingly healthy foods like tomatoes, zucchini, quinoa, and brown rice: a class of plant - based proteins called lecPlant Paradox, Dr. Steven Gundry introduced readers to the hidden toxins lurking in seemingly healthy foods like tomatoes, zucchini, quinoa, and brown rice: a class of plant - based proteins called lecplant - based proteins called lectins.

What they don't know is that since organic coffee farmers do not use chemical sprays, the plants have no defense against toxins like T - 2 toxins, ochratoxins, vomitoxins, and rubratoxins.

Rounding out the top 10 harmful toxics to pets are chocolate, household toxins like cleaning supplies, plants, herbicides and outdoors toxins such as antifreeze and fertilizer.

Insecticides, rodenticides, people food, veterinary medications, chocolate, household toxins, plants, herbicides and outdoor toxins (like antifreeze and fertilizers) round out the top 10.

Through a combination of genetic analysis and experimentation, Berenbaum has shown that plants evolve to create natural defenses, like chemical toxins to ward off pests, and that insects in turn evolve to overcome these defenses.

Stopping 100 new coal plants has also kept thousands of tons of asthma - causing soot and smog pollution, as well as toxins like mercury, out of our air and water.

After a year - long investigation of China's giant textile industry, Greenpeace has found that hormone - disrupting chemicals and other toxins are being discharged into the country's major water systems from major plants that supply big sports brands like Nike, Adidas and Puma, as well as international fashion brands like Lacoste, H&M;, Calvin Klein and Converse.