I have become interested and mildly fascinated by glyconutruents.
Here's a video describing what they are and how they work.
I am not a scientist so I don't know if this video is perfectly accurate or just physiological propaganda. To find out, I have asked the experts at the Metabolism Society if indeed it is or not. I'll send the answer to you when I receive it. Still it's worth the looksee. As far as I am aware, the sugars they talk about are made by the human body so you don't need to ingest them to create them per se.
But if it is accurate, this is an important message to eat real food. It's such a simple switcheroo to pick up an apple instead of a bag of Soy Crisps or a banana in favor of a Ring Ding.
It also has led me to think about the role of antinutrients found in most grains and beans and how these proteins called lectins disturb and trick our bodies into attacking the good proteins as well as the bad.
Leaky gut syndrome, the process by which foreign proteins seep into our blood stream via microscopic lesions in our intestinal walls, allows our immune system to get baffled and results in our bodies attacking what it shouldn't.
To learn more on this click here.
Putting the two concepts together, I realized that both increasing glyconutrients and decreasing the ingestion of lectin proteins could serve as a power packed method of improving and perhaps curing autoimmune disorders.
In sum, eat real foods and not processed foods and remove grains and beans form the diet. If you suffer form anything that your doctor calls 'autoimmune' first try this route before taking the drugs they suggest.
Hey, ya never know!
