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Glycosylation or the Attachment of Glycoforms to the Cell Membrane

 

Glyconutrients are necessary for every cell of your body and when you take glyconutrient supplements you are attempting to glycosylate (attach a complete glycoform to a cell membrane) all of the cells in your body. How fast will it work and which cells will be glycosylated?

Our body is made up of over 600 trillion cells. Cells are constantly being born and dying and cells have different life spans ranging from hours to years.

LIFESPAN OF SOME CELLS IN THE HUMAN BODY

CELL TYPE

LIFESPAN

Granulocytes:eosinophils basophils, neutrophils

10 hours to 3 days

Stomach lining cells

1-2 days

Sperm cells

2-3 days

Colon cells

3-4 days

Epithelia of small intestine

1 week or less

Platelets

10 days

Skin epidermal cells

2 - 4 weeks

Lymphocytes

2 months - a year (highly variable)

Red blood cells

4 months

Stomach lining cells

2 days

Macrophages

months - years

Endothelial cells

months - years

Pancreas cells

1 year or more

Bone Cells

25 - 30 years

 

When we take glyconutrient supplements we don't know which cells will be glycosylated or how many at that time. We "glycosylate" at random times. According to Dr. Steve Nugent in How to Survive a Toxic Planet, it is theoretically possible to take an oral dose of glyconutrients, which glycosylates 500,000 cells, as an example, and have 100,000 of those cells continue to live on when 400,000 of them will die. The cells that expired are being replaced by cells which also need to be glycosylated and you may or may not have sufficient glyconutrients available at that moment to get that job done. With this in mind it will, in most cases, take around 5 months at a minimum to glycosylate the cells you need for your particular health issue.

 

Our body has the ability to use the glyconutrients on what it considers to be the most pressing health issue - and this may be one we aren't aware of (eg cancer takes many years to become evident).

 
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