How do Phytonutrients Protect Against Disease?

Phytonutrients may:

• serve as antioxidants
• enhance immune response
• enhance cell-to-cell communication
• alter estrogen metabolism
• convert to vitamin A (beta-carotene is metabolized to vitamin A)
• cause cancer cells to die (apoptosis)
• repair DNA damage caused by smoking and other toxic exposures
• detoxify carcinogens through the activation of the cytocrome P450 and Phase II enzyme systems