Every Day - A "Glyco-Day"

Excerpt from 'The Missing Nutrients' by Dr. Steve Nugent.
'What you have learned thus far about so-called alternative medicine (or what I prefer to call complementary medicine) you've learned with a Western biomedicine thought process. For instance, take the use of herbal medicine. As the name implies, this is when an herbal substance is used as a medicine. You have a symptom, you take the herbal for relief of the symptom. When you help support your body with that herbal (which is far less toxic than pharmaceutical drugs), your body, as long as it receives everything else it needs, can respond to the challenge and defend, heal and restore you.

Vitamins and minerals are essential for the process of assembling healthy cells as well as many other functions of the body, but glyconutrients and their corresponding proteins, are essential for cell-to-cell communication. If your cells cannot communicate, you have no function and, therefore, no hope. It's that simple and explains why glyconutrients were the most important health discovery (by Mannatech Inc.) of the 20th century.

Your doctor was probably taught that cell-to-cell communication was facilitated through amino acids...... The problem with the old theory is that amino acids can link in only two ways. A and B can link as Ab or BA. But glyconutrients are what biologists call ring structures. They have a carbon backbone and O (oxygen) and H (hydrogen) molecules attached. This allows sugars to link with a virtually infinite variety of combinations. This process is also the only thing that can facilitate cell-to-cell communication since it's the only way you can spell virtually every "word" necessary to communicate from one cell to another.