"GLyconutrients will help you by giving your cells the building blocks they need to fufunction so that your body can heal, protect and repair itself as it was designed"
LIFESPAN OF SOME CELLS IN THE HUMAN BODY
CELL TYPE LIFESPAN
Granulocytes: eosinophils
basophils, neutrophils 10 hours to 3 days
Stomach lining cells 2 days
Sperm cells 2-3 days
Stomach lining cells 2 days
Colon cells 3-4 days
Epithelia of small intestine 1 week or less
Platelets 10 days
Skin epidermal cells 2 - 4 weeks
Lymphocytes 2 months - a year (highly variable)
Red blood cells 4 months
Stomach lining cells 2 days
Macrophages months – years
Endothelial cells months – years
Pancreas cells 1 year or more
Bone Cells 25 - 30 years
Glycosylation
Glyconutrients are sugar molecules. 'Glyco' means sweet and so they are 'sweet nutrients'. The sugar molecules often form sugar chains known as glycans, and these chains of glyconutrients then bind with protein molecules on protein strands to form glycoproteins. The process of forming glycoproteins is called glycosylation.
Glyconutrients are necessary for every cell of your body. When you take glyconutritional supplements you are attempting to glycosylate all of the cells in your body. How fast will it work and which cells will be glycosylated?
Our body is made up of over 600 trillion cells. Cells are constantly being formed and dying and cells have different life spans ranging from hours to years.
When we take glyconutrient supplements we are not certain which cells will be glycosylated or how many. According to Dr Steve Nugent (Naturopathic physician in Detroit Michigan) in How to Survive a Toxic Planet it is theoretically possible to take an oral dose of glyconutrients, which glycosylate 500,000 cells, as an example, and have 100,000 of those cells continue to live on when 400,000 of them will die.
New cells, which also need to be glycosylated, are replacing the cells that expired and you may or may not have sufficient glyconutrients available at that moment to get that job done. With this in mind it will, in most cases, take months at a minimum to glycosylate the cells you need for your particular health issue.
Our body has the ability to use the glyconutrients for what it considers to be the most pressing health issue - and this may be one we aren't aware of e.g. cancer takes many years to become evident.
Immune system
The immune system is the body's way of defending itself against bacteria and other 'foreign' substances. The fundamental protective actions involve neutrophils, macrophages, killer cells, and T and B cells. The specific actions of these cells, and how glyconutrients can support their function is explained below.
Other terms we often hear are immunodeficient and autoimmune, but what do they mean?
Immune dysfunction can result in the immune system being either overactive or under active. An under active immune system shows itself in such conditions as cancer and AIDS. If the immune system seems to be doing nothing to fight viruses, bacteria, and cancers it is called immunodeficient. Whatever the dysfunction, whether overactive or under active, glyconutrients have been shown to help, acting as immunomodulators. Immunomodulators down-regulate the overactive system and up-regulate the under active system. In fact, the glyconutrients are not the primary immunomodulators - they cause the DNA and the cells themselves to immunomodulate.
On the other hand autoimmunity is the opposite of immunodeficiency and is evidenced in the body seemingly attacking itself as if it is confused as to how to respond. Autoimmune conditions can be either systemic or localised.
There is still some debate whether MS, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia are autoimmune conditions.
In some cases, a person may have more than one autoimmune disease, for example, people with Addison's disease often have type 1 diabetes, while people with sclerosing cholangitis often have either ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease.
