OK So Glyconutrients are Essential – Why Supplements?

Do you know how the food you are eating is produced? For most people the answer is probably no. The fact that most children these days do not have any idea how milk for example gets from the cow to the table (or for that matter that it comes from cows!) I find quite sad.

Having grown up on a farm myself I have firsthand knowledge of a lot of modern farming techniques. We have land that is continually cropped and filled with chemical fertilisers to enable the nutrient leached soil to raise yet another crop. A little known fact is that plants require the addition to the soil of only 3 nutrients to grow, the body needs at least 45 nutrients to function effectively. Where can we get these if not from our food?

And that is not even taking into account the genetically modified seed that many of the farms now use. The idea in this scenario is that the end product is superior and that you can produce a tougher plant that requires less chemical pesticides. Supposedly that is to contribute to a more natural environment, it just so happens that it reduces the production costs too! (and the essential sugars)

The fruits and vegetables that we do raise are picked early for transport to faraway markets and then gassed to ripen. If you drop a tomato on the floor these days it is so hard it is more likely to bounce than go splat! The all important phytonutrients in ripe fruit are never given a chance.

Of course then our food is cooked and canned, pasteurised and processed. Science has shown that cooking depletes the scant glyconutrient levels in some cases to trace amounts. There is no way that we can derive enough of the vital glyconutrients from our diet alone.

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New Scientific Validation for Glyconutrients

Beginning 15 September 2009 The Royal Society of Medicine held a 3 day event called the 9th Jenner Glycobiology and Medicine Symposium. There were eight separate studies presented with the latest scientific findings regarding the effect of glyconutrients within the body. Two of those papers focused on the only complete glyconutrient blend that can be purchased as a supplement. This product was in fact validated by the studies in ways which far exceeded the previous claims regarding the supplement.

The new studies proved beyond doubt that the addition of glyconutrients to your diet does assist with cell to cell communication – it does glycosylate your cells. This means that your cells are functioning correctly, your tissues and organs are healthier and so are you! It helps to nourish, control and support every cell in your body, something that no vitamin, mineral, amino acid or herbal can do.

The results showed that glycoprotein synthesis can be changed by nutrition: that glyconutritional supplementation is something we all could do to support our immune system thus impacting our general health and wellbeing.

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Why is it important for Cells to Communicate Efficiently?

Complete cell-to-cell communication means your cells can relay vital information and allow your body to act upon it naturally. Glyconutrients provide building blocks for healthy cells and are the foundation for the cellular communication code, your body’s ‘operating system’.

“Monosaccarides represent an alphabet of biological information similar to amino acids and nucleic acids, but with unsurpassed coding capacity.”

ACTA ANATOMICA

You can easily see what happens in this representation of the ‘cellular alphabet’ when just one shape (read glyconutrient) is taken away:

Scientists have known for years that the body has the ability to repair itself – the challenge is to provide what it needs to maintain optimal health.

The cell is where health begins, it is the basic unit of the body: healthy cells make healthy tissues that make healthy organs that make healthy systems that make healthy bodies!

Cells communicate in order to sustain good health. Adequate supplies of gylconutrients will ensure this. Each cell needs to be glycosylated. This means that you need glyconutrients in your diet every day. All cell types have different lifespans from just a few hours to many years so every day your body is replenishing 50-150 billion new cells.

Every day you need glyconutrients. The better the cells communicate, the healthier they will be and the healthier you will be.

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Glycosylation = Improved Cell Communication

“Everything man needs to sustain health can be found in nature.
It is the job of science to find them”
Paracelsus

Nutrients derived from food (or good quality supplements) are the raw materials that cells use to fight disease and to recover. Cell-to- cell communication can be enhanced by the addition of glyconutrients to your diet. The body is designed to restore, repair, protect and defend itself when it has the right tools.

Cells communicate to understand and satisfy their needs for: nutrition, cleansing, support, identification and regulation. But how do they do this? Proteins within the cell have specific biological sugar molecules attached to them. The ‘words’ used to communicate are formed when these sugar (glyco meaning sugar) molecules attach to protein stems and become glycoproteins. They penetrate the cell wall and contain the messages expressing the cell’s needs. Glycoproteins facilitate communication inside and outside the cell thus enabling cell-to-cell communication. This cell communication can easily break down when glyconutrients are in short supply.

The bottom line? Glyconutrients help support your body, allowing your cells to send and translate messages to each other enabling them to communicate clearly and operate efficiently.

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The Unmasking of Glyconutrients - Where to start??

The best place I guess is to discuss what is happening today within our environment – specifically to our food and subsequently our nutrition. No matter what the labels say on our food, studies point to the fact that there has been an overall decrease in the nutritional quality of much of the food we eat. Toxins and pollutants are a constant challenge. Much of the food we eat is picked before it is ripe: processed and pasteurised and shipped long distances to market. So while you may be eating the recommended 5-9 serves of fruits and vegetables per day (and many people are not), the nutrients may be inadequate and quantity can’t always make up for quality. Therefore we need to look at supplementation to overcome the imbalance in our modern diets.

In 1996, Harpers Biochemistry (a medical textbook) published the body’s need for and use of 8 specific sugar molecules called glyconutrients. The research also reported that of the 8 glyconutrients only 2 are prevalent in our modern diets. It showed that these glyconutrients are necessary for proper cell communication. Of course the body prefers to get these nutrients directly from food however research has also shown that in a typical diet today we are only getting 2 of these glyconutrients: glucose from table sugar and galactose from milk products. The body then has to divert its available resources to manufacture the other 6 glyconutrients - resources which could be far better utilised in maintaining overall health, protection and repair functions.

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