Glyconutrients!
Eight sugars, from among the over 200 sugars available in the human diet, are used in the body for cell-to-cell communication. They combine with proteins to form “letters” that attach to the surface of cells to identify the cells condition. They wake up the immune system.
I took some notes from here:
A few of the eight sugars are rare. Here are the foods you should eat to get them: shiitake, shark or bovine cartilage, kelp
The eight sugars are:
Mannose: aloe vera (fresh, or specially stabilized), fenugreek or carob (galactomannan: galactose and mannose), shiitake (KS-2: mannose bound to an amino acid)
Glucose: kelp, but also extremely abundant in the diet, so don’t worry about it.
Galactose: fenugreek, apple pectin
Xylose: kelp, psyllium
N-acetylglucosamine: shiitake, Bovine cartilage and shark cartilage
N-acetyl-galactosamine: Bovine cartilage and shark cartilage, also in a red algae called Dumontiaceae (Cryttosiphonia woodii) that appears hard to get except in Japan.
Fucose: kelp (fucoidan which contains fucose, xlyose, mannose, galactose, and glucose), beer yeast
N-acetylneuraminic acid (sialic acid): whey protein, egg
Lecithin may enhance absorption of glyconutrients.
Here is a recipe:
Glyconutrient Jam and Glyconutrient Powder Recipe: An Inexpensive Way of Getting “Essential” sugars
The “Best” Glyconutrient Product (to which I think I would want to add brown kelp from pure water and a good goji berry powder product.)
