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Autoimmune Diseases & Glyconutrients
Auto immune diseases are disorders that benefit most from glyconutrition.
While women are disproportionately affected by automimmune disorders, these diseases do not discriminate when it comes to gender.
An autoimmune disorder occurs when your own immune system starts to attack itself. Mercury and other toxins can bind to the DNA of cells and to the cell membrane. Changing the cell
structure alters the cell function. Potentially, this leads to the immune system no longer being able to differentiate between invaders and healthy cells; and attacks healthy cells. This is how autoimmunity can begin.
Glyconutrients act as immune boosters.
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A few autoimmune disorders listed at the American Autoimmune Related Diseases
Association (AARDA) are multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, type I diabetes,
psoriasis, scleroderma, lupus, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and fibromyalgia.
The AARDA states that autoimmune disorders are the third major category of disease in the USA today. They estimate that 205 of the population suffer from some sort of auto-immune disorder.
The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) has a list of 65 autoimmune diseases (May, 2007):
1 Alopecia Areata
2 Ankylosing Spondylitis
3 Antiphospholipid Syndrome
4 Autoimmune Addison Disease
5 Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
6 Autoimmune Hepatitis - also called
Chronic Active Hepatitis (CAH)
7 Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED)
8 Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative
Syndrome (ALPS)
9 Autoimmune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
(ATP)
10 Balo Disease
11 Behcet Disease
12 Bullous Pemphigoid
13 Cardiomyopathy
14 Celiac Sprue-Dermatitis Herpetiformis
15 Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction (aka Yuppie Flu) Syndrome (CFIDS) - often referred to as
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
16 Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating
17 Cicatricial Pemphigoid - also called
mucous membrane pemphigoid or benign
pemphigoid
18 CREST Syndrome
19 Cold Agglutinin Disease
20 Crohn's Disease
21 Degos Disease
22 Dermatomyositis
23 Dermatomyositis-Juvenile
24 Discoid Lupus
25 Essential Mixed Cryoglobulinemia
26 Fibromyalgia - Fibromyositis
27 Graves Disease
28 Guillain-Barre Syndrome
29 Hashimoto Thyroiditis
30 Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
31 Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP)
32 IgA Nephropathy
33 Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
34 Juvenile Arthritis
35 Lichen Planus
36 Lupus
37 Ménière's Disease
38 Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
39 Multiple Sclerosis (Read a visitors account of her MS treatment with glyconutrients)
40 Myasthenia Gravis
41 Pemphigus Vulgaris
42 Pernicious Anemia
43 Polyarteritis Nodosa
44 Polychondritis
45 Polyglandular Syndromes
46 Polymyalgia Rheumatica
47 Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis
48 Primary Agammaglobulinemia
Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
49 Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
50 Psoriasis
51 Raynaud's Phenomenon
52 Reiter's Syndrome
53 Rheumatic Fever
54 Rheumatoid Arthritis
55 Sarcoidosis
56 Scleroderma
57 Sjogren Syndrome
58 Stiff-Person Syndrome
59 Takayasu Arteritis
60 Temporal Arteritis / Giant Cell Arteritis
61 Ulcerative Colitis
62 Uveitis
63 Vasculitis
64 Vitiligo
65 Wegener Granulomatosis
Other conditions that autoimmunity has been linked to, and where glyconutrients can be useful, are:
- polycystic kidney disease,
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's Disease
- asthma / allergies
- AIDS
- autism.
Glyconutrients are vitally involved in immune system cells, such as:
- T cells
- Natural Killer (NK) cells
- Stem cells.
Natural Killer cells are our first line of defense against virus infected and mutant cells. Specifically they destroy cancerous and infected cells.
Normal healthy cells are protected from destruction by the presence of glyconutrients
and their ability to communicate their identity. If these cells detect that there are diseased
or invading cells they will then attack and destroy them.
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