Note: Not a medical professional, with associated caveats. I don't know about this article specifically, but the importance of hormesis in medicine has come on

Note: Not a medical professional, with associated caveats. I don't know about this article specifically, but the importance of hormesis in medicine has come on fairly strongly in recent years. Specifically, that persistent, low-level damage to your cells and subsequent autophagy can actually reduce one's risk of various ailments. Antioxidants reduce the occurrence of this damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy