GLYCONUTRITION

Your body is your home - for a lifetime! Its needs are simple yet disease is virtually epidemic and we’ve never spent more money on ‘healthcare’. What is going wrong?

The answer is as obvious as it is unwelcome. It’s not to do with luck, it’s simple cause and effect. We live in an environment where the air and water are polluted, we live stressful lives and expect our bodies to support us until we die – without faltering! And all of this sustained by food that often does little more than give us energy.

Our knowledge of vitamins means few westerners will suffer from rickets, scurvy or pellagra but many of us will become sick from the effects of less obvious, long-term malnutrition – the lack of a completely new class of food called glyconutrients.

Since the 1990’s the science of glyconutrition has revealed that eight necessary ‘long chain carbohydrates’ or sugars are required to combine with proteins to form 'glycoforms' resembling antennae on the surface of every cell of your body. These enable cells to ‘speak’ to one another. Imagine the information your cells need to communicate - “see me, feed me, defend me, regulate me, repair me, cleanse me”. If these antennae are absent or incomplete, all the functions of those cells will be compromised leading to unhealthy tissues, sick organs and a diseased body. To illustrate, let’s look at our cell asking for help.........

......but missing elements of its alphabet; it can’t communicate what it needs. However, with a complete alphabet.......

........(or every necessary sugar) it can speak and is fully capable of maintaining a healthy existence.

The problem is that we no longer have access to the foods that in past times nourished us: glyconutrients, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytohormones. This is because our food is grown on depleted soils,‘green harvested’, processed, irradiated, genetically modified, transported, stored and often overcooked.

For these reasons there’s a paradigm shift under way. Every day we become more aware of the limitations of pharmaceuticals – by definition alien and toxic to the body. As a result nearly 70% of us use food supplements because we’ve decided to take responsibility for our own health rather than expecting a man in a white coat to heal us when things don’t work out. If our bodies are not properly nourished, sickness is only a question of time.

If you would like to enjoy the benefits of wellness for life, have an existing health condition or would like to find out more you can visit us at www.mannapages.com/sweetly or www.glyco.com/mannakind

Another great website for the science and to investigate how glyconutritionals work with your particular condition is www.glycotheatre.com (put 'Mannakind' in the 'referred by' slot or contact us: info@mannakind.com)