Glyconutrients are effective in supporting a strong immune system.  The immune system is your bodies defense system, and defends against bacteria and other ‘foreign’ substances.  The cells involved with this defense system are neutrophils, macrophages, killer cells, and T and B cells.  

Glyconutrients can also be effective with the immunodeficient and autoimmune.  When the immune system becomes dysfunctional it can be either overactive (autoimmune) or underactive (immunodeficient). An underactive immune system occurs with conditions such as cancer or AIDS.  If the immune system isn’t able to fight viruses, bacteria, and cancers it is called immunodeficient.

Glyconutrients have been able to help immune system dysfunction regardless of whether or not it is underactive or overactive as their role is one of immunomodulating.  Immunomodulators down-regulate the overactive system and up-regulate the underactive system. Glyconutrients act as immunomodulators because the cause the DNA and the cells themselves to immunomodulate.

Autoimmunity is the opposite of immunodeficiency where the body seems to be attacking itself it’s as if it is confused about how to respond to a situation. Autoimmune conditions can be either systemic or localized.

Systemic autoimmune diseases:

• Rheumatoid arthritis (joints, less commonly lung, skin)
• Lupus (systemic Lupus Erythematosus) in skin, joints, kidneys, heart, brain, red blood cells, other.
• Scleroderma (skin, intestine, less commonly the lung)
• Sjogren’s syndrome (salivary glands, tear glands, joints)
• Good pasture’s syndrome (lungs, kidneys)
• Wegener’s granulomatosis (sinuses, lungs, kidneys)
• Polymyalgia Rheumatica (large muscle groups)
• Temporal Arteritis / Giant Cell Arteritis (arteries of the head and neck)

Localized Autoimmune diseases:

• Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (pancreas islets)
• Hashimotos’s thyroiditis, Graves’ disease (thyroid)
• Coeliac disease, Crohn’s disease, Ulcerative colitis (gastro-intestinal tract)
• Multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome (central nervous system)
• Addison’s disease (adrenal)
• Primary biliary sclerosis, Sclerosing cholangitis, Autoimmune hepatitis (liver)
• Raynaud’s phenomenon (fingers, toes, nose, ears)

There is still uncertainty whether or not MS, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia are autoimmune conditions.  Some people may have more than one of these conditions simultaneously.

Glycosylation of glyconutrients

When you supplement with glyconutrients you are glycosylating all of the cells within your body.  Your body is made up of 600 trillions cells all working in harmony together.  Some cells are being born and some are dying, some cells last hours others last years, the following table shows you the lifespan of the various cells:

How many cells become glycosylated and which cells is difficult to know, however Dr Steve Nugent in How to Survive a Toxic Planet has some suggestions.  He says that an oral dose could glycosylate 500,000 cells where 100,000 of those cells continue to live on when 400,000 of them will die.  The cells that have died would have replicated and you’ll need glyconutrients to then glycosylate them.  Therefore it can take months at minimum even years to glycosylate the cells you need for your particular health issue.  Glyconutrients can act on the areas that are most necessary, and this can be even the areas your unaware of!