Supplements and Herbs for Cancer (VIII)
On Supplementing, Natural & Commercial
Glyconutrients (such as Mannatech’s Ambrotose®) and Cancer
Thoughts by Ulla, creator of Healing Cancer Naturally,
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Is there a need for supplementation?
Many nutrients seem to be missing in today’s foods. The reasons are manifold, and could be “forced into a nutshell” as being the following:
unripe picking (green harvesting)
various food preservation & storage techniques incl. irradiation
etc.
Simultaneously, our baseline need for nutrients may actually have increased due to the ubiquitous onslaught of environmental toxins
and stress factors few in the Western world are able to escape. So while a raw-based organic diet & healthy lifestyle, optimized according to personal needs and coupled with proper detoxification (such as proposed in the Budwig diet & protocol), sunlight and spiritual, mental and emotional harmony will likely prevent most
deficiences, these health measures may not invariably forestall them all.
Is there a best supplement?
Due to bioavailability considerations (i.e. our body's evolutionary adaptation to assimilating elements from natural unprocessed
foodstuffs only) as well as for reasons of balance of elements I feel that it may be safest and most effective (as well as cheapest) to rely on raw seaweed as a natural and bioavailable source for minerals &
trace elements, and on fresh organic vegetables, juices and sprouts (incl. wheatgrass) for minerals plus the various vitamins, rather than on man-made products (at least for health maintenance). See The importance of minerals & trace elements for health & cancer prevention, Seaweed, On supplements, intestinal flora, cancer and
immune system: It’s not what you ingest, but what you usefully absorb and Nutrition.
There are likely some exceptions: a severely depleted body (or those who for various reasons may be unable to implement the
above-described regimen) may require an additional jump start in the form of supplements. The seemingly best ones I have come across so far are spirulina (dried algae), barley green (barley grass), Lifestar Living Food Concentrates and supplemental Glyconutrients. (I also
trust Dr. Jürgen Buche’s recommendation of colloidal minerals supplementation based on his statement that “Only organic and colloidal minerals can be assimilated and used by your body cells!”).
Introduction: glyconutrients in nature
Glyconutrients are age-old natural substances (naturally occurring plant compounds) which only quite recently became the subject of
intense scientific exploration (in the field of glycobiology) as well as commercial exploitation. Large parts of the population have thus been made aware of the importance of these natural glyconutrients
and the deleterious consequences of a diet lacking in them.
Supplemental glyconutrients & cancer
Supplemental glyconutrients produced by the Mannatech corporation and marketed by Mannatech under the name of Ambrotose® et al.
have anecdotally been reported to be cancer-healing. But there are
also cancer patients who did not benefit from Mannatech glyconutritional supplementation, testifying to their inefficiency in other cases.
Personally I feel that a very important factor in any cancer healings achieved by taking glyconutrients (as well as similar products or
approaches) alone is the placebo effect: it is well known that when we fervently believe in any particular substance or procedure to have a healing effect (and when this belief is strongly nurtured through
pertinent healing testimonials or similar means), that our belief alone can suffice to bring about the desired cure (compare Cancer: The Power of Belief to Heal or Kill I, Cancer: The Power of Belief II and Lourdes malignant sarcoma cancer healing).
One of the main appeals of neutraceuticals such as supplemental glyconutrients and many others may consist in the fact that any such
products - comparable to other easily consumable substances - meet the common and culturally ingrained belief in a magic bullet or pill which will cure our health challenges without requiring any further
efforts towards achieving greater health on the part of the afflicted patient...
Conclusion
The raised awareness regarding the importance of natural glyconutrients will hopefully allow many to find a way to step up their
intake of these essential natural nutrients, such as through wiser/fresher food choices and/or taking (self-made or other) glyconutrient supplements, juicing/buying aloe vera, (partially) growing their own food (such as sprouts which can be grown at home) etc.
I encourage everyone to aim for an optimal natural glyconutrient-rich diet and/or to make their own inexpensive glyconutrient substitute.
Also compare Should I Take Supplements and Vitamins, It’s not what you ingest, but what you usefully absorb, Cancer: The Power of Belief to Heal or Kill I and
Cancer: The Power of Belief II.
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