"Fruits and Vegetables are Trying to Kill You"

Should we really be taking antioxidants? Here is an article that made me question what I always thought was established truth. The author offers reasons to believe that antioxidant supplements may actually interfere with nature's plan for protecting us. He makes the case that we do best to eat plants that have been subjected to stressors such as grazing or drought and developed compounds to survive these threats. When we consume these plants, they stress us as they would other grazers and we are strengthened as a result. "Eating food from plants that have struggled to survive toughens us up as well.....We’re in this together, the plants and us.” It's good food for thought: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fruits-and-vegetables-are-trying-to-k...