Holy Grail of Crop Health: Plant Secondary Metabolites - by Jerry Brunetti

How you farm sets up your crops for internal production of a class of compounds called plant secondary metabolites. Science is increasingly quantifying the astounding benefits these compounds play in all stages of health: crop, livestock, human. Primary plants metabolites are the proteins, etc. that everyone is familiar with. Secondary metabolites are those compounds which have medicinal, modulating or drug-like properties. These compounds are found in all plants and serve as protection mechanisms. Because plants are immobile and cannot run from the enemies of UV light, insets, fungal and viral attack, and grazing animals, they must build internal protection. These very compounds are generic and incorporate themselves into livestock and human cells as well. Learn the latest on how to produce and tap into the true "alchemy of nature."
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