What are Glyconutrients, and how they help with ADHD?

Of the last eight Nobel prizes, four have been awarded for reasons relating to glyconutrients.  These eight essential sugars are proving to have incredible possibilities in the areas of both health and medicine.  This makes them a part of a group called Nutraceuticals – meaning that they are a combination of nutrition and pharmaceuticals.

Nutraceuticals are natural, food-based substances that have been designed to have pharmacological effects on the human body.  The term was coined by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine, in order to take in all of the natural, standardized, non-toxic dietary supplements that are used in order to better a person’s nutrition.

To understand the word “Glyconutrient”, it can be broken down to its sub-parts.  “Glyco” means “sweet”, and is therefore used to refer to a carbohydrate or sugar molecule.  “Sugar,” “carbohydrate”, and “saccharide” are all terms that are used equally and interchangeably.  Nutrients are the parts of food that provide the body with essential nourishment, such as vitamins, fats, carbohydrates, sugars, and minerals.  Therefore, glyconutrients are the types of foods and nutritional supplements that provide sugars and other glycoforms (the large carbohydrate molecules that bond with proteins or lipids to coat the surface of all kinds of living cells) that are essential to the body.  Unfortunately, however, these glyconutrients are rarely adequate in most diets today.

These glyconutrients impact the body in a substantial way, having a very positive effect on the immune system.  Several diseases, disorders, and symptoms are currently being treated with great success by glyconutrients.  For example, when used in conjunction with surgeries, chemotherapies, and/or radiations, they have shown to reduce the undesirable side effects of such treatments so that the patient can heal and recover more rapidly than with the treatments alone.

The sugars contained in all glyconutrients are also an important part of the functioning of the brain and nervous system.  On this vein, they have been found not only to help with sleep problems, but will also provide comparably successful results among ADD/ADHD patients, without the negative side effects and possible abuse and habit formation seen in the typical treatments that involve stimulant medications.

In fact, among the results seen in ADD/ADHD patients is not only a reduction in hyperactivity and increase in focus, but also a decrease in other symptoms related both directly and indirectly to ADD, such as anxiety and depression.

The potential of glyconutrients is absolutely astounding, and scientists are currently racing to keep up with the possible uses that they offer.  For the ADHD community, it is a breath of fresh air – the same kind of discovery that penicillin offered the rest of the world.

 

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