Download or read book Hormesis in Health and Disease written by Suresh I. S. Rattan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some mild stresses have positive effects on survival and aging as shown in animal models. There is also a large body of research that demonstrates these hormetic effects on aging, health, and resistance to severe stresses and diseases in human beings. However, the data are dispersed in the literature and are not always interpreted as hormetic effec