Re: dr Leonard Horowitz/Ambrotose

[Guest guest]

Ambrotose is only a very tiny part of the whole picture. It’s just “piecemeal

nutrition”. Mannatech calls these sugars “essential”. But “essential” means that

your body can’t make them and you have to get them from food. Just look at glucose ... the idea

that we have to get glucose in our diet because we can't make it or can't make

enough of it is ... well, not correct. It's the basic fuel for our cells --

blood glucose levels are normally maintained within the relatively narrow range

of 70-110 mg per 100 mL. That happens whether or not

we get glucose in our diet, whether or not we eat at all. All sorts of things

can be converted to glucose by our liver, including amino acids.

The sugars may be essential to life, but not as single

ingredients in the diet. In the Mannatech promo piece there are some striking

contradictions. For one thing, they acknowledge we have the ability to

synthesize these substances and then two sentences later they go and label them

" essential " . Plus, they

are not from a real, food source. Get yourself some real whole food nutrition

that wasn’t put together in a lab by some scientist mixing stuff up in a

cauldron.

Sure, those 8 carbs can be helpful

in particular situations, e.g. N-Acetylglucosamine in inflammatory bowel

syndromes and other mucosal diseases. Mannose in bladder

problems, etc. Many of these

are probably assimilated by probiotics in a healthy

body, from essential building blocks, such as found in nutrient-dense whole

foods. I feel that with the foundational micronutrients available in

nutrient-dense whole foods we are able to make the sugars for optimal

health. Start at the beginning of

the nutritional support chain, instead of what Mannatech

is doing which is targeting specific sugars in the middle and end points.

Some people have trouble making nonessential amino acids,

too – so should we also call them essential?

And what do you do for the “real” 45 essential

nutrients? Ambrotose

certainly doesn’t have them.

Alanine

Arginine

Asparagine

Aspartic Acid

Betacarotene

Bioflavinoids

Biotin

Boron

Calcium

Chlorophyll

Chromium

Cobalt

Copper

Cysteine

Essential Fatty Acids

Electrolytes

Fiber

Fluorine

Folic Acid

Germanium

Gamma-Linolenic Acid

Glutamic Acid

Glutamine

Glutathione

Glycine

Glycogen

Histidine

Iodine

Iron

Isoleucine

Lecithin

Leucine

Linoleic Acid

Lysine

Magnesuim

Manganese

Methionine

Molybdenum

Niacin (Vitamin B3)

Nickel

Nucleic Acids

Omega-6 Fatty Acids

Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Pantothenic Acid/ B5

Phenylalanine

Phosphorous

Potassium

Proline

Pyridoxine (vit B6)

Riboflavin (vit B2)

RNA

Selenium

Serine

Silicon

Sodium

Superoxide Dismutase

Substance P

Thiamine (Vit B1)

Threonine

Tyrosine

Valine

Vanadium

Vitamin B12

Vitamin C

Vitamin E

Zinc

From: " SV "

<shavig@...>

Ambrotose is

from Mannatech.

I wouldn't touch a Mannatech product with a 50

foot pole. The product may be

great, but their sales tactics are hardcore and VERY pushy and relentless.

Shari