Mannatech’s Ambrotose Complex: Glyconutrient and Dr. McAnalley
Mannatech’s patented glyconutrient complex, Ambrotose Complex (En Español) is perhaps the greatest wellness discovery in the last 50 or 100 years, in the opinion of this humble author.
Here’s why…
The story of Ambrotose, sometimes misspelled ambertose, begins with Aloe Vera. In the 1980′s, Dr. Bill McAnalley, a young research pharmacologist, was determined to identify the active component in Aloe Vera. After many years he discovered the functional component in Aloe Vera that is responsible for its health-promoting properties. To his surprise, the active ingredient was a carbohydrate with many mannose sugar molecules attached together.
He found that Aloe products were not effective unless the active carbohydrate molecule had been stabilized, and he developed a special, patented process to maintain that effectiveness. Today that substance is protected by over 100 patents in numerous countries. The dietary supplement form was named Manapol. At the time of this writing Mannatech had just acquired all rights to Mannapol and its patents.
The positive feedback from the extensive use of Manapol was overwhelming. Further investigation revealed that whenever two or more living cells interact in a specific way, cell surface carbohydrates were involved. These cell surface codes told every other cell who they are, what they do, and whether or not they were healthy, and the alphabet for that communication was made up of carbohydrates. This code system is basic to human life today, but at that time was essentially unknown.
In 1996, an edition of Harper’s Biochemistry identified eight essential carbohydrates necessary for the creation of cellular words. When Dr. McAnalley saw that mannose, the carbohydrate in Manapol, was listed as one of those eight essential carbohydrates, it all started to make sense. He realized that the proper cellular words, “glycoproteins” were essential for the the body’s genetic code, or human blueprint, and that proper cell-to-cell communication could have a crucial role in literally every health issue on the planet.
Since only two of the eight carbohydrates identified in Harper’s Biochemistry were found in even an extremely healthy modern diet, McAnalley decided to find good plant sources of all essential carbohydrates associated with cell-to-cell communication (including Manapol) and combined them into one single dietary supplement – Ambrotose Complex.
These nutrients are called glyconutritients. McAnalley called his new product “Ambrotose” because the Greek word, ambrosia, means “nectar of the immortals.” He added the “e” at the end of the word because in chemistry, a substance that is a sugar ends in “ose.” These carbohydrates were actually sugars, though not in the normal sense you and I think of sugar.
In his early days of discovering the effectiveness of carbohydrates in immune support, McAnalley was often laughed at…to think that carbohydrates played such an important role in optimal / optimum health was ridiculous…or so many health professional thought. Today, however, the importance of carbohydrates is well established, and research in the field of glycobiology is accelerating at a torrid pace. In fact, today the field of Glycobiology and the importance of carbohydrate technology has been written about in hundreds of scientific journals around the world.
The cover of a recent issue of Science Magazine shows a picture of carbohydrates on the surface of a cell, and contains a section of articles on Carbohydrates and Glycobiology, including one piece entitled “Saving Lives with Sugar.” One page in particular proudly displays the structures and names of…”eight sugars”…the eight saccharides already available in Ambrotose.
The most exciting part of the story is what so many people around the world believe Ambrotose Complex is doing for them. Apparently, millions believe this “nectar of the the immortals” is something pretty special.
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Cell surface signalling and recognition are not the only critical biologic structure and functions supported by Ambrotose. Increasingly the importance of epigentics is being seen as the key to understanding genetic expression, and monosaccharides are key molecules in the internal operations of cells, for example, providing signalling functions to organells, and critical protein synthesis folding functions, to name just two.
That dietary ingestion of glyconutrients affects these functions is no longer merely inferred. The “proof” gap is closing. From the Mannatech web site, “Unmixing Mixed Messages – Max International | 31 December 2009″:
“At the most recent international glycobiology symposium, The Jenner Conference held in Brussels, Belgium in September 2009, two of the twelve papers presented focused on Ambrotose complex research. The first study presented showed, through gene array analysis, how Ambrotose complex turned on specific genes that help modulate the immune system. The second paper addressed our scientific critics’ biggest assertion, which is that there has never yet been any study linking the oral intake of plant polysaccharides to a change in glycoprotein structures at the cellular level. But now, a dose-response study conducted by St. Georges University in London, England, shows that glycosylization patterns on cells are absolutely influenced through the intake of Ambrotose complex. †
Through studies like these, we are just beginning to get a glimpse of the awesome potential of Ambrotose complex. There is simply no other nutritional technology that is helping to lead an entire segment of science like Ambrotose complex is. Let alone one that is also proprietary and based on patented technology.
Please remember this: All new meaningful discoveries go through three phases. First ridicule, then violent opposition, and finally it becomes self-evident. We wouldn’t want to be anywhere else when the true value of the discovery of glyconutrients becomes self-evident.
† Study was at least partially funded by Mannatech. In some cases, this means that Mannatech donated the product that was studied. In other cases, additional funding was provided.”
This is now added to the other studies showing that Ambrotose positively affects cognition, memory, mood, antioxidant protection, and is a synergistic prebiotic.
We are not allowed to disclose the results people get with this product. They are much too dramitic and disruptive. This is still “violently opposed”, but many of us already see how self-evident this is, and we are walking proof of it.
Where can I get Manapol?
Why would you purchase Mannapol and get only one glyconutrient. Carrington Labs owned the patent and I believe Mannatech now has the sole legal ownership and use of Mannapol. Why wouldn’t you purchase Ambrotose Complex and get all 8 compounds in the world’s original glyconutrient complete complex? There is only one. That’s why everyone is racing to try and copy it. http://mannastorefront.mtexpro.com/goland2