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Sugar - the great healer?
23rd September 2005
I'm always grateful to receive emails from readers.
Sometimes they make me sad, happy AND angry, all at the same time.
Sad because so many of you must cope with ailments that make a sciatic nerve problem seem like a stubbed toe.
Happy because you seem to find my weekly investigations useful.
And angry because the establishment still won't register many of the powerful alternative remedies you have every RIGHT to try.
For example, I recently received a moving email from Good Lifer, Gerald...
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Could 'saccharides' ease the pain of chemotherapy?
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He wrote:
'I have a cousininlaw in New Zealand, aged 61, who has leukaemia and also cancer of the lymph glands.
'Needless to say, he is under the doctors and has been having chemotherapy.
'But the interesting thing is that he has chosen to take large doses each day of glyconutrition, which consists of the 8 essential saccharides essential to our well being, only 2 of which we now obtain as a general rule...'
(Saccharides are natural sugars and he is quite right about them. But I'll explain more in a moment.)
Gerald continues:
'He has amazed the doctors by how 'well' he is continuing to be, despite all their dire predictions about the ill effects the chemotherapy was going to have on him.
'He is also eating a lot of broccoli seed sprouts and taking a lot of homejuiced vegetables and fruit each day.
'It will be interesting to see how, hopefully, he gets on.'
Thanks, Gerald. I think this will give other readers some comfort and inspiration.
You also bring up a very interesting topic...
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The revolutionary science of glyconutrition
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Glyconutrition is a revolutionary new medical science that studies the healing power of sugar.
Some scientists believe it can reduce allergies... ease the symptoms of arthritis and diabetes... and improve the effectiveness of medicines in the fight against HIV and cancer.
But we're not talking about healing the sick with a bag of Tate & Lyle.
There are actually over 200 sugar compounds (saccharides) that occur naturally in plants. Eight of them are essential to optimal human health.
Two of them you know already...
Galactose is a milk sugar, while Glucose is the stuff you find in fruits and grains. Both fuel your body and brain.
And what of the other six...
Well, we simply don't consume these sugars at sufficient levels any more.
If you go back a few thousand years, 90% of our diet was made up of vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and legumes (peas, beans, etc). These foods were packed with the 6 other essential sugar compounds.
But today we barely eat enough of them. Instead we eat refined sugars in the form of processed foods. We stir it into coffee... mix it with bread... and create wondrous 'fruit' juices from it.
This is disastrous, because we desperately need those six missing sugars to fight modern diseases.
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Fight disease with the missing sugars
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Glyconutrition is now considered to be a major breakthrough in understanding the immune system... and many other processes, too.
According to, Emil Mondoa, M.D, these sugars, or glyconutrients, 'are like a Swiss army knife which the body can use for different tasks.'
Once taken into the body, the glyconutrients combine with proteins and fats to create special compounds (glycoproteins).
Glycoproteins are like symbols with which cells can communicate with each other. When the body doesn't have enough of these, it can't communicate well with the immune system.
Not only that, but the pathogens (the evil villains that cause cancer) can't flag up their identity to your immune system... and so hit harder.
But when glyconutrients flow into your body, your nerve sensors and receptors working together to combat disease.
For example, they could help you fight depression, which some believe is caused when the body is unable to manage its stress.
Without glyconutrients, the stress builds up unchallenged.
But when glyconutrients are present, these sugars get your body communicating. Now, your brain will alert your body to the stress (a bit like someone shouting 'It's behind you!' during pantomimes.)
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Bigger than penicillin!
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Scientists also believe that glyconutrients aid in the development of babies during pregnancy.
The sugars help the body know when to stop making one type of tissue, like liver, and begin making bone or kidney.
So could this be the answer to preventing many birth defects?
For cancer patients, glycoproteins can also lessen the toxic effects of radiation and chemotherapy, while boosting the body's cancer-killing abilities.
If all these claims are discovered to be true, this could be bigger than the discovery of penicillin!
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Where to find healing sugars
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In today's letter, I've hopefully explained how modern humans don't eat enough of the 8 essential sugars that allowed us to evolve.
These essential Glyconutrients exist in most fruits, seeds and vegetables. So to give yourself a natural boost, try eating fresh fruit and veg - as raw as possible.
Like Gerald's cousin-in-law, you should try getting hold of a juicer. This way you can get lots of intense, concentrated shots of fresh nutrients, straight from the source.
(Sorry if I come across like an evangelist from the Church of Juice, but it's the way I feel!)
Here are a few of those 'shy' sugars that you should try and take:
- Mannose is one of the eight essential sugars, reportedly good for your nerve cells. You can find it in cabbage, aubergine, broccoli, and seeds.
- Fucose, another glyconutrient, is active at the junctions between your nerve cell and can found in mushrooms and in seeds.
- You can find another one, Xylose, in fruits, yeast, rye and barley.
There are also some glyconutritional supplements on the market.
In my research I keep coming across the company 'mannatech'. I can't personally vouch for this US company, but I'll include a link here to give you an idea of what's available. click here
Remember that this is a new science. There's more research and testing to be done. But it looks like glyconutrition could transform the way we fight disease forever.
It's exciting stuff and, as always, when I find out more, you'll be the first to know!
Yours, as ever,
Ray Collins,
The Good Life Letter
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