Guest guest Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Now that you've learned about what glyconutrients are and their importance to your health, the question is how much do you take? That's not as simple as you might think. Most people have been conditioned in the modern world with the drug mentality. If, as an example, you have a bacterial infection, you might be prescribed an antibiotic to take, let's say at 500 mg 3 times a day for 10 days. That is an average based on scientific study. The pharmaceutical will work on a synthetic pathway, and be far more predictable than a natural substance. However, unexpected reactions to properly prescribed pharmaceutical drugs, not doctor error, are the fourth leading cause of death in North America. Even pharmaceutical drugs, synthetic and highly predictable, are not fully predictable in terms of dose and time. How can we expect a food to be dosed precisely? Glyconutrients are necessary for every cell of your body. And it would be nice if all of your cells were born on the same moment and died on a given predictable moment. But that's not the way it works. When you take glyconutrients orally, you are attempting to glycosylate all of the cells of your body. Cells are constantly being born and dying. The trillions of cells have different life spans. Some of them, as you can see on the cell chart, live for hours and some live for years, and virtually every time period in between. LIFESPAN OF SOME CELLS IN THE HUMAN BODY CELL TYPE LIFESPAN Granulocytes:eosinophils 10 hours 3 days basophils, neutrophils Stomach lining cells 2 days Sperm cells 2 - 3 days Colon cells 3 - 4 days Epithelia of small intestine 1 week or less Platelets 10 days Skin epidermal cells 2 - 4 weeks Lymphocytes 2months more than a year (highly variable) Red blood cells 4 months Macrophages months - years Endothelial cells months - years Pancreas cells 1 year or more Bone Cells 25 - 30 years We cannot predict which cells will be glycosylated with each dose of glyconutrients, nor can we predict how many will be glycosylated. It is theoretically possible to take an oral dose of glyconutrients, glycosylate 500,000 cells as an example, and have 100,000 of those cells continue to live on when 400,000 of them have just expired. The cells that expired are being replaced by cells, which also need to be glycosylated 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. The other issue is that the body will, if functioning correctly, work on whatever it thinks is most important to your health. You may recall that various diseases can be working in the human body, and the individual with them is totally unaware. Breast cancer was an example I used earlier. That is because most people know someone, knew someone, or will know someone with breast cancer. Those individuals will tell you that they felt fine. They were symptom free of the breast cancer for the 5 to 30 years it took for the breast cancer to form in their body. It is possible, for example, that someone might have fibromyalgia, which they are painfully aware of. They also may have breast cancer brewing in their body. Of course they are unaware of it, and until it reaches a certain point, it cannot be diagnosed. With this in mind, they may be taking glyconutrients daily and their fibromyalgia does not seem to improve. What may be happening, in this case, is a shifting of glyconutrients by the body to the fight against a more serious foe, and little or none is helping the condition of fibromyalgia. For more than eight years, I've seen individuals with Fibromyalgia who experienced a quality of life enhancement in a matter of days. I've also seen some cases where it took months before they experienced the same level of enhancements. I strongly suspect in those cases that something more serious was going on in their body than they were aware of, or that we could diagnose. You could make that theoretical scenario with virtually any type of illness you wish. So, how long should it take? Many people will take glyconutrients for the first few days and have tremendous and seemingly miraculous results. Many will not. This is because we are each biochemically and genetically unique. I would recommend that you go to glycoscience.org and get a paper off the site called " How Soon Should I Expect to experience the effects of dietary supplements " Hope this is informative, Wes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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