Nutraceuticals 101
By Eugene Fox

This may seem a bit dull at first, but read on and you will likely find it exciting. Harper's Biochemistry Textbook (Murray et al., 1996 edition) lists eight monosaccharides* (starches/ sugars) as essential for optimal health.   Only two of them are found in our diet - glucose and galactose.  The other six are rare or absent.  The purpose of all eight is to combine with proteins on the surface of our cells to give full cell-to-cell communication.  All cells have to function in cooperation with each other to give us optimal health.  That cannot happen without full communication.  Optimal health is having abundant energy and no disease symptoms.

Without the missing six factors, no one can enjoy the full level of health that is possible with them.  More seriously, without them we will have a suppressed immune system, making us vulnerable to disease. All eight of those very special starches/sugars are essential.  A dictionary definition of essential is: "...necessary to the constitution or existence of a thing ... important in the highest degree; indispensable..."  So then, those eight factors are necessary, indispensable and important in the highest degree for optimal health.  Obviously we do not need all eight to exist, but we do need them for full, optimal health.  This is the foundation for understanding nutraceuticals.  (More on this later.)

Now let's think more about the immune system.   It is the body's natural defence against disease and premature aging.  Instead of being robust, it can be suppressed, and in most people it is.  That's why so many are unhealthy, getting so many diseases.  Those eight essential saccharides can build us up and maintain the immune system, enabling us to overcome things that wear us down and make us sick.

Let's illustrate that.  What is required to keep a car operating? Just putting gas and oil in it?  If that were the total maintenance, you can see that a car would be in the process of destroying itself even while it is still running well.  The day you decide that only adding gas and oil is your total maintenance is the very day trouble begins, even if it doesn't show up until very much later.  Applying that to the human body, if we do not get all those eight essential monosaccharides, trouble actually begins long before it is detectable.  It is really important to grasp this. The root of much sickness and degenerative conditions is a dietary deficiency, brought about when the body is denied the full eight essential monosaccharides, even though it may be years before the actual problems appear.  How are we doing so far?

Now let's talk about stress.  We are under stress all the time, 24 hours a day.  Some is emotional, caused by the pressures of life and work. Some is from the toxins everywhere in our environment, causing tremendous disease-promoting stress.  (Sorry, just reading that likely put your stress level up!)  Is it any surprise, then, that there are many new diseases running rampant in society--diseases hardly known a generation ago?  Included are allergies, arthritis, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, colitis, fibromyalgia, lupus and more.    Furthermore, they are not drug related--it was not a lack of drugs that caused them, and so drugs will not cure them.  The better approach is to provide for the body's deficiencies in the way that it needs.  Reasonable, isn't it?

Drugs are very necessary.  We need them for crisis management.  But they only put down symptoms, they do not cure diseases.   Pharmaceuticals go after effects, not causes, so at best they are only part of the answer.

This brings us back to those eight essential starches/sugars.  They are nutraceuticals - not vitamins or minerals, but highly specialized food derivatives that serve essential needs of the body.  They are phytochemicals - chemicals made by plants that are natural, safe and non-toxic, with a scientifically-proven specific therapeutic value, providing the basis for optimal health.    They are classified separately from other supplements, those which do not have the science to establishes their pharmaceutical-like effectiveness.   Nutraceuticals deal with the causes of diseases, and are primarily intended to prevent disease before it ever begins.

The eight saccharides combine to make a powerfully effective nutraceutical.  Without hesitation, Dr. Stephen Nugent, a world authority, declares this is "the greatest discovery in health care history."   He can say that because of his full grasp of the science involved and the abundant clinical evidence he has seen when this nutraceutical has been taken. 

Now let's get very practical.  Knowing our diet is lacking six of the eight essential monosaccharides, how would you expect your immune system to respond if it got a full supply of all eight regularly?  How would you expect your body to handle aging and disease?  Obvious, isn't it. But also exciting!  Those eight simple essential sugars combine to give your body full cell-to-cell communication, setting it free to heal and protect itself in amazing ways, producing full optimal health. Currently about half our population is looking for safe, non-toxic natural alternatives to care for themselves.  They're really looking for nutraceuticals.  And now that you have read this, you have the knowledge they need.

There is more - much more.  This wonderful gift of God is much more amazing than we've been able to discuss here. The deeper you look, the more amazing this will all become.  Frankly, this is either too good to be true, or too good to miss.

* They are glucose, galactose, mannose, fucose, xylose, n-acetylglucosomine, n-acetylgalactosamine and n-acetylneuraminic acid.

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