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Good Sugars - Glyconutrients Feed Cells By Julie Grinnell Editor-in-Chief, Living Spirit Magazine Unfortunately, the food we eat today doesn’t give us the nutrients we used to get ten years ago - and even by consuming the number of servings of fruit and vegetables recommended each day, we still don't receive the nutrition that we are educated to understand we should receive from our food to keep us at optimum health. What this means is that even though we may eat 5 - 7 servings of fruit and vegetables a day, we are still falling short of our daily nutrient intake. For example: We would need to eat 53 peaches to receive the same nutritional levels of two peaches eaten 50 years ago. But what can we do about this? Do we stop farming? Of course not. Do we eat only organic? This helps tremendously, but going organic doesn’t necessarily compensate us in receiving the nutritional levels we need. So what is the answer? This is where glyconutrients come into their own. Glyconutrients: Science -v- Myth Glyconutrients are sugars, of which there are many, but eight in particular are used in food supplements. To hear of sugars in relation to good health isn’t usual, but glyconutrients are essential sugars and it has been found that adding glyconutrients to your diet can significantly reduce cholesterol levels, break down cellulite, aid in effective safe and long-lasting weight loss, reduce inflammation, improve memory, allow the body to be able to relax and so heal and become regenerated. How Glyconutrients Work Glyconutrients are natural and assist the body by giving it what it absolutely needs to function correctly. Neither nutrition nor food supplements suppress or manipulate symptoms, but they do enable the body to behave in a different way toward coping with viruses, bacteria and injury. The object when taking a glyconutrient supplement is not to treat the symptom, but to very simply give the body what it needs to rejuvenate and rebuild itself from the cellular level. By rebuilding from the cellular level, the very foundation of your being is being re-established. From good foundations we have good communication, what comes forth from this is good health. Very simply then, if a cell is damaged, it can’t communicate with other cells as effectively and so it cannot function as it was designed to do so and as cellular communication is the single most important thing for effective nutrition to take place, when communication is improved between cells it is possible to empower and regenerate every single part of the body to function correctly. Taking the lungs as an example. The lungs have many functions, one of which is to assist in the expulsion of carbon dioxide. But what happens if a significant area of the lung tissue is damaged, say through smoking cigarettes? The carbon dioxide isn’t expelled so efficiently and the body can be poisoned which often results in asthma, emphysema and bronchitis. But if damaged areas are repaired, the issues associated with the damage will be resolved - this is how glyconutrients work, by repairing damaged cells to enable full functionality. The glyconutrient acts as a specialist food to the cell and rebuilds it. Which cells does it do this for? All cells. How can it do it for all cells? It’s a food, not a treatment system, that feeds the cells. Why aren't the foods we eat providing us with this essential requirement? Due to intensive farming techniques, even though organic is far better a choice for nutritional levels to be achieved, the soil no longer has the nutrient levels it used to have and so the plants can only grow to have the degree of nutrients as the soil provides. If you are a meat eater, think about this. Animals eat vegetation; if the animals aren’t getting the nutrition they need through the food they eat, then the meat, eggs, milk, cheese, yogurt and so on will reflect this low nutritional level. Therefore, whether we are vegan, vegetarian or an all-rounder, the food we eat, can no longer give us the established and accepted nutritional levels we know we need in order to stay healthy. Glyconutrients are a food that non-human animals can benefit from too. Glyconutrient Knowledge Glyconutrients are a relatively new science. In fact most doctors attended medical school before glyconutrient technology was published. It took until 1996 for one of the medical textbooks, Harper’s Biochemistry, to publish a chapter on glyconutrients - so it has only just become relatively well known. Glyconutrients are just food and haven’t been found to have side effects or to interact with prescribed drugs or herbal products. A glyconutrient supplement is the same as eating vegetables with the right level of nutrition. With this concept in mind, a glyconutrient will rebuild the body from the deepest level possible. Copyright Julie Grinnell 2007 |