Helpful explanation of the term "food toxin"

[Benko]

From Kessler's newsletter this morning:

In their book The Perfect Health Diet, Paul & Shou-Ching Jaminet apply the economic principle of declining marginal benefits to toxins:

    It implies that the first bit eaten of any toxin has low toxicity. Each additional bit is slightly more toxic than the bit before. At higher doses, the toxicity of each bit continues to increase, so that the toxin is increasingly poisonous. ( The Perfect Health Diet )

[FarmerD]

From Kessler's newsletter this morning:

In their book The Perfect Health Diet, Paul & Shou-Ching Jaminet apply the economic principle of declining marginal benefits to toxins:

    It implies that the first bit eaten of any toxin has low toxicity. Each additional bit is slightly more toxic than the bit before. At higher doses, the toxicity of each bit continues to increase, so that the toxin is increasingly poisonous. ( The Perfect Health Diet )

In toxicology textbooks, the phrase "The dose makes the poison" is a guiding principle.  Basically everything is toxic if taken in a high enough dose.  This principle has been accepted for hundreds of years.  That's why I'm always stunned to read some rodent study where the rodent was given 10,000 times the dose they could ever realistically get, then the researchers attempt to extrapolate the hazard that occurs at much lower and realistic exposures.  Many supposedly knowledgeable researchers as well as the EPA, Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission among other government goofballs, insist on a linear no threshold dose which completely contradicts common sense.