Hormesis in Health and Disease

There is now a large amount of data available for human beings, showing health beneficial hormetic effects of mild stresses from physical, chemical, nutritional, and mental sources. However, these data are dispersed in the literature and not always interpreted as hormetic effects, thus restricting their full apprehension and application. A comprehensive discussion of the research, this book is composed of four sections: (I) History and Terminology, (II) Evidence for Hormesis in Human Beings, (III) Molecular Mechanisms of Hormesis, and (IV) Hormesis in Risk Assessment.