Cancer, regardless of the type, is the result of two occurrences:
- Mutations of our genetic material (DNA and RNA).
- Failure of our immune system to detect and destroy the resulting genetic mutation.
Everyone has thousands of pre-cancerous cells occurring all the time. In most people, their immune systems are healthy enough to detect and destroy these before they grow into cancer. The cancer patient's immune system is not doing this job properly. The latest research tells us that when levels of one or more of the eight necessary glyconutrients (mannose, fucose, xylose, glucose, galactose, n-acetyl-neuramic acid, n-acetyl-glucosamine, and n-acetyl-glalactosamine) become low, cancer can result.
For example, abnormal mannose and N-acetylglucosamine sugars have been found in breast and colon cancer cells. In addition, a lack of these glyconutrients have been linked to the spread of cancer cells throughout the body. What we now know is that we are all deficient in dietary glyconutrients today, thus opening us up to cancer, and other diseases.
- Glyconutrients stimulate macrophage and immune killer cells to destroy cancer (this is the first line of defense).
- They increase the production of substances like interferon to target and destroy malignant cells.
- They activate T-cells to recognize invaders and destroy them (second line of defense).
- They help to regulate when cells die off (apoptosis). When this safety mechanism fails, cancer cells are allowed to keep replicating.
There are some top oncologists who are using glyconutrients in their daily practice -- insisting that their patients get on these life-changing supplements. The discovery of glyconutrients and how cells communicate just occurred a few years ago, long after your doctor left medical school. Unfortunately, glyconutrients are not in the educational program by pharmaceutical companies presented to your doctor because they are natural supplements, not drugs. The American Medical Association, AMA, has sanctioned continuing medical education seminars so doctors can begin learning this vital new information. The AMA have never sanctioned seminars for any natural supplement technology before -- that's how important the medical community believes glyconutrients to be.
1. Cancer is largely a dysfunction of your body’s ability to remove the cancer cells from your systems because of immune and cellular system dysfunctions. Cancer is an underactive immune system where the natural killer cell functions are depressed resulting in your immune systems inability to recognize cancerous cells.
Cancer is epidemic everywhere in the westernized cultures. We see the issue of cancer in the last 25 years skyrocketing and continuing to increase. If it continues to increase the way it has, it is forecast to increase by 70% by the year 2010. The last 10 years it increased by 28% and in the next 10 years by 70%.
Glyconutrients do not cure cancer they supply necessary nutrients that you must have to make glycoforms on the cells surface. With an inadequate amount of glyconutrients in your diet you will have cellular dysfunctions which can lead to the development of a disease like cancer.
Glyconutrients are absolutely essential for optimal health. There are many other nutrients that you must have to support other biological functions to maintain health and optimize your health so your body can protect you from the onset of cancer and other diseases.
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Posted at 5:48PM on Jun 3rd 2006 by Robert