What is Polysaccharide Carbohydrate?

We have all heard about vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids. Some of you may have heard about phytonutrients too. But nature is abundant in many other nutritional substances that go beyond those ones.

Fortunately scientists have identified certain carbohydrates called polysaccharides too, which are biological sugars found in plants, fruits and herbs.

In the last two decades scientists around the world have become very interested in studying these sugars because they’ve seen their health benefits and their potential for the human body. These have been in the spotlight of a growing number of scientific publications such as Acta Anatomica, Scientific American and Science Magazine, which devoted almost a whole issue to this topic.

These carbohydrates function as building blocks to build a vast variety of complex molecules, called sugar chains. They are:

• glucose,
• galactose,
• mannose,
• xylose,
• fucose,
• arabinose,
• N-acetylglucosamine,
• N-acetylgalactosamine,
• 2-keto-3-deoxynonulosonic acid and
• N-acetylneuraminic acid.

Polysaccharide molecules can combine with each other in many ways and this is why scientists refer to the study of these as “the sugar code”. Each combination is like an intricate code that sends a specific biological message to a particular target, that can be another cell, a substance within the same cell, a protein, a hormone, a bacteria or a virus.

These sugar chains are involved in almost every physiological process including the immune system response, cell replication, growth and apoptosis (which is the programmed death and recycling of all cells of the body), nutrition, hormonal regulation, etc. They are the code of life.

Are we getting enough of these necessary carbohydrates to support good health?

Our modern diet only provides two of these saccharides readily… glucose and galactose. The chances of getting the other ones are reduced due to modern agricultural methods, green harvesting, food processing practices, chemical contamination, soil depletion of nutrients and overcooking.

Although the body can manage to make the remaining carbohydrates out of the galactose and glucose through a complex enzymatic process, certain factors such as stress, disease, and the lack of specific enzymes interfere with this whole process. The complex process of covering the cells with these sugars has to be 100% perfect.

Dr. Axford, researcher and author of two best-selling medical textbooks, is actively involved with research in rheumatology and has a special interest in the study of the relationship between these types of carbohydrates and arthritic disease.

In 2000, scientists in London, England, participated in the Royal Society of Medicine Conference and presented facts about abnormal “glycosylation” – the process of covering the cells with these carbohydrates – and its relationship to disease.

To date, ten rheumatic diseases have been studied and in every case glycosylation played a key role. At the same conference, it was explained that sugars, including, mannose, fucose and glucose have been documented to be therapeutic.

These sugars combined adhere to proteins on the surface of the cells and send signals or “cellular messages”. They play an important role in healing wounds, the inflammation process, cell growth and death and other clinical conditions.

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