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Lectins: A Protein that Could be Undermining your Health

What are Lectins? Lectins are large proteins produced by plants. Plants have evolved over millennia to create these proteins as a defense mechanism to defend themselves against the animals that prey upon them.  You see, unlike animals, plants can’t run away from, bite, or scratch predators.  Instead, they use toxic chemicals as a defense mechanism. …

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