Why Do We Need Glyconutrients?

By 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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Why Do We Need Glyconutrients?