Glycobiology: The New Category in Preventive Medicine and Nutrition

Glycobiology: The New Category in Preventive Medicine and Nutrition
by Victoria Arcadi, DC, DICCP

Finally, there is a category that truly will embrace preventative medicine, and especially chiropractic. This new category is called "glycobiology" or "glycoscience." This happens to be the most exciting new science that has ever hit medicine. The good news is that what we are dealing with are foods - foods that are nontoxic and are simply the building blocks of carbohydrates called monosaccharides or glyconutrients. They are nontoxic at any level, and I believe it to be real nutrition that goes inside the cell.

Countless papers are being written and published on this new science. These building blocks or glyconutrients (monosaccharides), of which there are eight essential monosaccharides, are responsible for the formation of glycoproteins, which attach to every cell wall and are responsible for cell-to-cell communication in the body. Without these glyconutrients or monosaccharides (single sugars or sugars), the cells in the body literally cannot talk to one another. You will then see conditions like autoimmune disease, which as we know, are the cells attacking the healthy cells of the body. Not to mention that the body cannot identify any invader cell, virus, infection, or for that matter, cancer cells, if these glyconutrients are not present in the glycoprotein structure.

More on the link above!

Dynamic Chiropractic
July 30, 2005, Volume 23, Issue 16

There is much more information on glyconutrients in this blog and on my web-site at www.artsplace.ca/health