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DESCRIPTION: There are 800 incidents of DNA damage in our bodies per hour. Which foods help us patch it back up: apples, broccoli, celery, choy sum, lemons, lettuce, oranges, persimmons, or strawberries?
If it’s not the vitamin C, what might it be? That’s the subject of my next upcoming video Citrus Peels and Cancer: Zest for Life? (
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