Glyconutrients / Glyconutritionals:  It's Role in People & Animals' Health and Wellness

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Over 200 sugar compounds, technically known as saccharides, occur naturally in plants. And eight of them have been identified as essential to optimal human health. Glyconutrients support the process our individual tissue cells use to recognize, and communicate with, each other. When you nourish and balance the systems, you give your body what it requires to resist, repair and overcome disease, and to achieve optimal health. Major universities are involved in the study of glycobiology. Academic institutions throughout the United States now have laboratories focusing on glycobiology research, including the University of California, University of Oklahoma, San Francisco State University, University of Wisconsin, The Burnham Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More than 30 biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies throughout North America, Canada, Europe and Japan are currently participating in glycobiology research. The focus of their research involves a wide range of possible uses including cancer treatments, anti-inflammatory and anti-fungal agents as well as treatments for influenza, asthma, and other infections.

Disease is a symptom of one or more body systems in distress. When you nourish and balance the systems, you give your body what it requires to resist, repair and overcome disease, and to achieve optimal health.Research over the past decade has demonstrated the importance of essential fatty acids and essential proteins (amino acids). Now scientists and nutritionists are just beginning to understand that there are essential sugars as well. Eight essential sugar compounds function individually as building blocks to assemble a nearly infinite variety of complex molecules known as glycans or sugar chains.  Glyconutrients research field has been in numerous peer reviewed articles and text such as Harper's Biochemistry, Acta-Anotomica (has the latest high tech grad level research in cellular biology - published in Europe), Science Magazine, Positive Health" Magazine, and more.