Dave Saunders

Written by Understanding Glyconutrients


You say you don’t know what glyconutrients are? You are not alone. Perhaps you have heard a bit about glyconutrients but you don’t really know what they are or how they could benefit you. Understandingrepparttar rolerepparttar 135786 glyconutrients play inrepparttar 135787 overall scheme of nutrition is very important if you are interested in supporting your own health andrepparttar 135788 health of those you know and love.

Inrepparttar 135789 26th edition of Harper’s Illustrated Biochemistry, chapter 47 is a new chapter onrepparttar 135790 subject of glycoproteins. These microscopic structures are essential to all cellular function. They are constructed of building blocks of protein and eight different monosaccharide sugars. That’s right, glyconutrients are sugars. These necessary sugars are notrepparttar 135791 same asrepparttar 135792 table sugar we often think of when we look at all ofrepparttar 135793 latest diet fads. Instead these glyconutrients are needed by every single cell of your body to perform essential functions.

What are some ofrepparttar 135794 functions of glyconutrients and glycoproteins? Your body is a collection of cells. To function together, your cells must be able to communicate. Collectively glyconutrients are likerepparttar 135795 letters ofrepparttar 135796 alphabet. They form together to createrepparttar 135797 wordsrepparttar 135798 cells use to expressrepparttar 135799 instructions of your DNA. Glycoprotein structures allowrepparttar 135800 human egg to identifyrepparttar 135801 human sperm, thus making fertilization possible.

Glyconutrients also influence hormone function, where they intervene inrepparttar 135802 release and transportation of some hormones. With over 80 different hormones controlling every facet of your life, can you see how important just this one role is?

Do You Want To Look Ten Years Younger?

Written by T. O' Donnell


Do you want to look ten years younger?

Here are twelve beauty tips that are guaranteed to work, if you follow them *all*. There's no point eating fresh fruit and vegetables, and then smoking like a chimney!

1. Moisturise.

This is a misnomer, you can't actually put water in your skin. You can, however, oil it up (like leather!), and trap water next torepparttar skin.

After every wash, put an inert oil on your face. Johnson's Baby Oil is good. Put it especially on your laughter-lines (aroundrepparttar 135785 eyes), your forehead, aroundrepparttar 135786 mouth and onrepparttar 135787 neck.

You don't need expensive ointments; independent studies show these are a con.

2. Eat Good Food.

Eat plenty of fruit, fish and vegetables, drink water. A healthy diet makes for a healthy body, and health makes you look younger.

3. Sleep.

MOST IMPORTANT.

At least eight hours. A good night's kip will make you look years younger.

Go to bed before midnight, as early as possible. You've had enough when you bound out of bed inrepparttar 135788 morning, full of energy. If you don't, you need more, or you're depressed, or you went to bed after midnight.

Lack of sleep is very ageing. If you don't get enough sleep you look haggard i.e. old. Sleep deprivation is akin to being a zombie; your IQ is less, memory poorer, and your reactions slower. You become more prone to disease.

4. Don't Smoke.

Smoking constrictsrepparttar 135789 capillaries in your face. This is why smokers look pale. It agesrepparttar 135790 skin. It makes your hair lank.

A smoker is essentially in a constant state of ill-health; weaker immune system, less energy, less stamina. In time smoking can lead to serious disease. It lenghtens recovery time from other diseases. Doctors tend to write-off smokers; they know their work is being wasted.

Cigarettes contain poisons like formaldehyde, ammonia, arsenic, and benzene. The reason people crave them is because they also contain nictotine, which is more addictive than heroin. You can kick heroin in five days; nicotine can take weeks.

5. Don't Drink Alcohol.

Again, alcohol is a poison. Drunkenness is a mild form of poisoning; hence its alternative name: intoxication.

I once knew some Australian girls when I first came to in London. They used to 'party hearty'. One of them was very pretty. After 6 months she looked like she'd aged fifteen years; 20 going on 35.

When I was very young I used to wonder why adults looked so old, tired and fed up. Certainly life has its disappointments, but we help death mark our card early on.

6. Don't Sunbathe.

In neolithic times men used to cure animal hides by exposing them torepparttar 135791 sun. This wasrepparttar 135792 earliest form of tanning; they were making leather.

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