Sugar works out miracles
Mar 21, 2005
FOR long, we believed that sugar’s only role in our bodies was for energy. However, apart from energy giving, sugars also protect us from diseases.
By Barbara Ajilong
FOR long, we believed that sugar’s only role in our bodies was for energy. However, apart from energy giving, sugars also protect us from diseases.
Research shows that sugars are involved in cell communication. “The language of life,†is what Dr Bill McAnalley, a researcher, calls it.
“When the body gets sick, the cells make a word and these are expressed on the surface of the cells, warning the immune system of disease. This is cellular communication and these words are put together by sugars,†Dr McAnalley says.
There are about 200 different sugars from plants. Of these, only eight have been proved to be essential to our bodies. However, we get only two of these sugars in our meals, missing out the other six sugars.
These sugars can be obtained from plants. They have been developed by scientists like Dr McAnalley into glyconutrients. “Glyco means sugar. These are sugar molecules developed into supplementary nutrients.
According to Dr Benjamin Akenga, a Kenyan surgeon who has actively used these glyconutrients in the treatment of various diseases including HIV/AIDS, the immune mechanisms are made stronger by these sugars.
“These sugars are the molecules found on every cell. A microscope shows that every cell has hair-like substances that coat the cells. These hair-like substances are the sugars,†Akenga says.
“The body can convert the sugars rather slowly when required but when a disease strikes, it doesn’t give the body time to manufacture those sugars for protection.†It is the presence of those essential sugars that the cells are protected.
Dr Akenga used these glyconutrients three years ago on HIV/AIDS patients. “I used glyconutrients on HIV patients in Kenya,†said Akenga. “The patients had many clinical manifestations of the HIV/AIDS and were bedridden,†he says.
Akenga says within two weeks, all the patients who received the glyconutrients had recovered. “They were walking. They were prescribed ARV drugs, which would have been denied to them because of their poor state of health. medical conditions.â€
Akenga, who is engaged in a clinical research in Kenya on glyconutrients believes this category of nutrients is critical to Africa’s battle against HIV/AIDS and other health challenges.
Glyconutrients are not designed to cure diseases but to provide unique support for the body’s defense and recovery systems. They are more useful on patients with asthma, rheumatoid arthritis. They also inhibit growth of tumor and certain types of cancer, regulate blood glucose levels and insulin release.
Dr McAnalley found these sugar molecules in the Aloe Vera plant. “The Aloe Vera helps with burns and ulcers. So I decided to find out its components,†McAnalley says. The first sugar was extracted from the Aloe Vera but Dr McAnalley believes that they can be gotten from other plants.
FOR long, we believed that sugar’s only role in our bodies was for energy. However, apart from energy giving, sugars also protect us from diseases.
Research shows that sugars are involved in cell communication. “The language of life,†is what Dr Bill McAnalley, a researcher, calls it.
“When the body gets sick, the cells make a word and these are expressed on the surface of the cells, warning the immune system of disease. This is cellular communication and these words are put together by sugars,†Dr McAnalley says.
There are about 200 different sugars from plants. Of these, only eight have been proved to be essential to our bodies. However, we get only two of these sugars in our meals, missing out the other six sugars.
These sugars can be obtained from plants. They have been developed by scientists like Dr McAnalley into glyconutrients. “Glyco means sugar. These are sugar molecules developed into supplementary nutrients.
According to Dr Benjamin Akenga, a Kenyan surgeon who has actively used these glyconutrients in the treatment of various diseases including HIV/AIDS, the immune mechanisms are made stronger by these sugars.
“These sugars are the molecules found on every cell. A microscope shows that every cell has hair-like substances that coat the cells. These hair-like substances are the sugars,†Akenga says.
“The body can convert the sugars rather slowly when required but when a disease strikes, it doesn’t give the body time to manufacture those sugars for protection.†It is the presence of those essential sugars that the cells are protected.
Dr Akenga used these glyconutrients three years ago on HIV/AIDS patients. “I used glyconutrients on HIV patients in Kenya,†said Akenga. “The patients had many clinical manifestations of the HIV/AIDS and were bedridden,†he says.
Akenga says within two weeks, all the patients who received the glyconutrients had recovered. “They were walking. They were prescribed ARV drugs, which would have been denied to them because of their poor state of health. medical conditions.â€
Akenga, who is engaged in a clinical research in Kenya on glyconutrients believes this category of nutrients is critical to Africa’s battle against HIV/AIDS and other health challenges.
Glyconutrients are not designed to cure diseases but to provide unique support for the body’s defense and recovery systems. They are more useful on patients with asthma, rheumatoid arthritis. They also inhibit growth of tumor and certain types of cancer, regulate blood glucose levels and insulin release.
Dr McAnalley found these sugar molecules in the Aloe Vera plant. “The Aloe Vera helps with burns and ulcers. So I decided to find out its components,†McAnalley says. The first sugar was extracted from the Aloe Vera but Dr McAnalley believes that they can be gotten from other plants.