Bell-curve responses are a thing I wish didn't exist. Stupid body! Counter-intuitive crap. More should mean more.
Anyway, I'm curious as to the reason these responses form. My hypothesis is that if you take a low enough dose the body's detoxifying pathways are not mobilized against the foreign substance as strongly; it gets treated as low priority. Whereas the reason you might reproduce an equally strong response with an acute dose is via a concentration gradient overriding the body's attempts to remove the substance. And then the dosing that falls between these two extremes gets the weakest response, hence the curve.
No idea if I'm on the right line of thinking however. Anyone else got any insights?
