Glyconutrients

What are Glyconutrients?
The most
i m p o r t a n t
discovery for your
immune system in
the last 100 years
is something called
glyconutrients.
Science and
medicine have long
tried to understand
the code by which
the cells in the
body communicate
with one another
in order for its
complex functions
t o o c c u r. F o r
example, how does
your digestive
system know which food components to absorb into
the blood stream and which to ignore? Or which
cells to attack and destroy and which to protect and
nurture? That code has now been broken. This role is
undertaken by glyconutrients. Researchers proclaim
it to be the most important discovery in the history of
medicine ..the key to a long, healthy life.
What are glyconutrients? Glyconutrients are plant
carbohydrates (monosaccharides). There are over 200
carbohydrates or sugars but only 8 are essential to
bodily function. These are:
•xylose
•fucose
•galactose
•glucose
•mannose
•N-acetylglucosamine
•N-acetylgalactosamine
•N-acetylneuraminic acid (a sialic acid).
These 8 essential glyconutrients combine with other
molecules eg proteins and lipids, to form glycoforms
or glycoconjugates which coat cell surfaces. When
they combine with protein molecules, they form
glycoproteins that coat the surface of every cell with a
nucleus in the human body. When glyconutrients bind
with lipids (fats) they form glycolipids which also
adhere to the cell surface.
Glyconutrients are the key to effective cellular
communication and proper cell function. This has
been established by the world's leading scientists and
researchers.
Glyconutrients are not vitamins, minerals, amino
acids or enzymes, but are in a class of their own
as nutritional supplements derived from plants.
Glyconutritional supplements are formulated based
on new understanding in the biochemistry of how the
human body maintains health at the cellular level.
Healthy cells lead to healthy tissue - healthy tissue leads
to healthy organs - and healthy organs lead to healthy
bodies.
Every cell in our body - all 600 trillion of them needs glyconutrients.
Despite the relatively recent discovery of
glyconutrients and their functions, medical doctors and
the general public are becoming increasingly aware
of their importance in treating underlying causes of
disease and in maintaining good health. As good as
allopathic medicine is, it simply has NO answer to
the increasing incidence of auto-immune diseases,
cancers and degenerative diseases in Western societies.
Glyconutrients will soon become a part of standard care
by medical practitioners for all auto-immune diseases,
cancers, and degenerative diseases. A glyconutritional
approach gets at the root cause rather than treating only
the symptoms.
Glyconutrients are however only part of what is
necessary to a healthy body. Other important scientific
discoveries of the past century highlight the importance
of a range of other dietary or lifestyle factors including
vitamins, minerals, fiber, water, essential fatty acids,
essential amino acids, antioxidants, and exercise.
Why do we need
glyconutrient supplements?
In our diet today, the eight essential glyconutrients
are often missing. Most diets today contain only two
of the eight glucose and galactose. Glucose is supplied
from such food sources a wheat, rice, and sugar
cane. Glucose and galactose are supplied through the
breakdown of lactose from dairy sources.
If we are deficient in the 8 essential sugars, the
cells will eventually lack the communication system
necessary to maintain good health.
Why are our diets deficient in glyconutrients? The
so-called fresh fruits and vegetables we buy today
have few glyconutrients (or nutritional value at all)
because they are often grown in nutrient-deficient soil,
picked before they ripen naturally, gassed, irradiated,
artificially ripened, stored for days, weeks, or months,
cooked, frozen, canned, processed, refined, pasteurised,
genetically engineered, etc. Cooking and processing
deplete glyconutrients further.
Glycobiology has also found that beneficial
bacteria in the colon breakdown polysaccharides to
monosaccharides (glyconutrients). But the bacterial
content of modern people is different from our
ancestors and so
this process is less
efficient.
Green harvesting
allows long distance
transport and allows
fruit and vegetables
to be stored for
lengthy periods, but
most of the essential
glyconutrients are
found only in food
that is ripened on
the vine/tree and
they remain in the
fruit or vegetable for
only 48 hours after
picking.
Glyconutrients
How do glyconutrients work?
Glyconutrients are sugar molecules. 'Glyco'
means sweet and so they are 'sweet nutrients'. The
sugar molecules often form sugar chains known as
glycans, and these chains of glyconutrients then bind
with protein molecules on protein strands to form
glycoproteins. The process of forming glycoproteins is
called glycosylation.
Cellular communication is literally the single most
important concept in nutrition, and when we support
this communication process we are empowering every
single cell and every single part of the body to function
the way it is supposed to.
Glycoproteins have many functions in human cells
eg:
Function
Example
Structural role
Collagen
Transport role
Transferrin
Immunologic role
Immunoglobulins
Cell-to-cellcommunication Selectins
Proteins in fertilisation
Cell adhesion molecules
Cell signalling
Many receptors
Clotting
Plasma proteins
Lipoproteins
Lubrication
Mucins
Source: Dr Robert Murray
There are many different glycoproteins formed
when sugar chains and protein chains bind together.
The function of the glycoprotein chain will be
dependent on the arrangement of the 8 essential
glyconutrients on the sugar chain, and the arrangement
of the protein molecules on the protein chain. There
are many glycoproteins and there are many functions.
Some of the processes involving glycoproteins:
•inflammation
•bloodclotting
•pepticulcers
•AIDS(HIV)
•influenza
•fertilization
•cancer
•cysticfibrosis
•arthritis
Inflammationiscausedwhenwhitebloodcellscome
outside the small blood vessels and attack bacteria in the
tissue. Glycoproteins are instrumental in this process.
Glyconutrient supplementation can increase the body's
ability to attack and kill bacteria in tissue.
TheHIVvirusbindsto2proteinsvia2glycoproteins
in its envelope. Glyconutritional supplementation may
prevent attachment.
The adhesion molecules in between cancer cells are
glycoproteins and when these weaken the cancer cells
are released to travel to other parts of the body ie the
cancer is able to metastasize.
日本發現人類容易感染之豬流感病毒
人類感染後會出現近6成的致死率之高病原性家禽流行性感冒（H5N1）
，在印尼發生由豬隻感染後，一部分變種為人類的咽喉和鼻子的細胞
易遭感染的病毒。解析出上述結果的東京大學醫科學研究所河岡義裕
教授表示，為了防備高致死率之新型流感的出現，實有必要對豬流感
加以監控。
H5N1
H5N1病毒表面充滿醣蛋白。
這項研究成果，乃河岡教授等在05-09年間共3回，在印尼的14個州隨
機選出702頭豬隻後，調查牠們的鼻涕、血液和糞便等所得出的結果。
05-07年所調查的豬隻中，有7.4％分離出了H5N1的病毒，這些豬隻均
為鄰近的雞隻中所流行的禽流感所感染。詳加調查的39種病毒中，有1
種一經接觸人類的鼻子和咽喉的細胞便會產生突變。
迄今為止所發現的H5N1，對人類來說均不易遭受感染。但根據此調查
結果，不免令人擔憂是否會出現人類易遭感染的H5N1。豬隻會感染禽
流感，也會感染人流感，故該病毒有可能係在豬隻的體內變種為使人
類易遭感染的。
文章來源：朝日新聞2010年9月1日
H1N1
(左)H1N1容易傳染但不易致命。
(右)H5N1傳染緩慢但容易致命。
註：避免H5N1感染，必須提升免疫功能，最重要須增加體內細胞醣蛋白最
外端醣鏈八種必需單醣的完整，具有足夠的辨識能力，同時增加免疫細胞
的能量供給，才能有效對抗病毒攻擊，保持健康。