New discoveries in medicine are always exciting, when the results of these discoveries can potentially bring a wide range of benefits to a broad spectrum of society. This is particularly true in the case of glyconutrients.
A number of high profile tests carried out at leading biology research laboratories around the world have demonstrated that glyconutrients can:
- Increase muscle mass
- Increase bone density
- Decrease cholesterol levels
- Speed up the healing process
- Ease the symptoms of allergiesThe medical world has seen the discoveries relating to glyconutrients as being so important that they have been behind four recent Nobel Prizes.
So What are Glyconutrients?
Glyconutrients have recently been identified as the supplement needed to create the eight monosaccharide sugars necessary for good health. Glyconutrients enable the different cells in the human body to recognise and communicate with each other.
Glyconutrients help the brain and nervous system to function by providing the sugars that are required for cells to communicate with each other. As a result, glyconutrients can alleviate sleep related disorders along with depression and anxiety.
Glyconutrients also appear to play a part in helping the body to break down fat and cholesterol by lowering low-density lipoproteins and triglycerides and raising high-density lipoproteins levels. When people refer to the benefits of oatmeal in reducing cholesterol, what they do not normally appreciate is that it is the beta-glucan sugars in the oatmeal that is responsible.
Essential sugars produced by glyconutrients are also needed to retain muscle mass and bone density. This is because the sugars created by glyconutrients help the body to heal itself.
Research has shown that glyconutrients have a powerfully positive effect on the immune system. For example, glyconutrients lessen the side effects of chemotherapy when taken in conjunction with it. They also seem to help the body to heal and recover more quickly from surgery and illness.
Elizabeth Harfleet is a leading a UK based nutritional therapist specialising in glyconutrients [http://www.wellbeing-nutrition.com/glyconutrients.htm]
