Hormetic responses are dose-dependent: lower or bounded exposure can trigger adaptive responses while larger exposure can produce different or harmful effects.

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Mattson and Calabrese/Baldwin describe hormesis as a biphasic dose-response pattern in which low-level stress or exposure can activate adaptive responses while higher exposure can produce different or adverse effects.

These reviews do not establish that every stressor produces beneficial hormesis in humans, that more exposure produces more adaptation, or that a hormetic dose can be generalized across people and contexts.

The manuscript adds recovery, readiness, spacing, and context to the practical interpretation. Those Human OS conditions are not all independently established by these hormesis reviews.

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