Why Do We Need
Glyconutrients?
Craig Broussard
Food
is obviously among our most essential and basic needs to
maintain life. However, the way that we live our
lives these today is desperately lacking in fresh
foods. Fruits and vegetables – even when we do eat
them – do not contain the nutritional value that was once
available within them. This is a result of the way
that we grow and distribute such foods. Fruits and
vegetables are growing in nutrient-deficient soils and are
picked before they can ripen naturally so that they do not
spoil before they reach the consumer. They are then
gassed, irradiated, and artificially ripened before they
are stored for days – in warehouses or on trucks – before
they are available to the people who actually eat them. Not
too appetizing! It is also the reason that our diets
are so badly lacking in the vital nutrients that we require
to maintain optimal health.
Among the most
lacking of the nutrients we need is glyconutrients.
These are the parts of nutrition that allow our cells to
properly communicate with one another within our
bodies. When they are lacking – which they are in
almost every person – our cells are not as capable of
correctly performing their
functions.
Glyconutrients
are also responsible for the increased enzyme production
and activity, which allows our bodies to detoxify
carcinogens and prevent them from entering cells, while
they restrain malignant changes in cells that have
experienced carcinogen exposure.
Every person can
benefit from supplementing their diet with
glyconutrients. They are especially important,
however, to people with decreased immune system function,
increased oxidative stress, poor cellular regeneration or
repair, and those people experiencing diminished or faulty
neurotransmitter function.
It is the latter
that involves people suffering from ADD/ADHD. By
taking glyconutrients, the neurotransmitters in the nervous
system and in the brain are able to function on a better
level, reducing the symptoms of ADD/ADHD, as well as the
indirect results of having ADD/ADHD, such as depression and
anxiety. For this reason, it is becoming increasingly
common for ADD specialists and experts to recommend
glyconutrients in conjunction with behavioral therapy and
emotional counseling in order to treat ADD in a more
natural and less aggressive way than with traditional
stimulant medications.
The results have
been extremely positive, with miniscule risk of negative
side effects, and no chance of dependence or misuse as is
the potential in some cases when stimulant medications are
used.
The true power of
treating ADD with glyconutrients is the fact that they
function by allowing the body’s own capacity to heal and
sustain itself to create a better quality of life to its
users.
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