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Baby Boomers and Generation Xers are continuing to look for ways to look and feel younger. Those 55 to 64 year old Baby Boomers are particularly fast growing and set to surpass 80 million by 2012. As a result they are more likely to investigate new nutritional technology if it makes sense to them. When it comes to nutraceuticals, "Baby boomers drive the nutraceutical market in the sense that they are the generation who is most likely to demand control over the course of their medical care," stated a recent consumer trend article.

The term nutraceutical was coined by the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine in 1991 as any substance that may be considered a food or part of a food and provides medical or health benefits, including the prevention and treatment of disease.

Glyconutrients fall within this definition. Glyconutrients are a class of new technological breakthroughs in the nutritional industry. Briefly, it is believed that the sugar strands attached to proteins and lipids in our body require 8 out of 200 known carbohydrates in nature, to enable the cells of our body to have the right structure to communicate with each other. Improper structure equals improper function. Its as simple as that.

Some of my colleagues in the medical profession would argue we get all the glyconutrients we need in our diet. WHO ARE YOU KIDDING? From green harvested fruits and vegetables? Grown in nutrient deficient soil? Using fertilizers and pesticides and being fed dirty water and breathing polluted air? Yes the liver is able to manufacture glyconutrients however it requires up to 32 or so enzymatic reactions and that is dependent on what? An ample diet of fresh fruits and vegetables! Glyconutrients are a food supplement and as such are not meant to cure, treat, or mitigate any disease or condition. Yet science has established in the literature that there is a direct link to poor nutrition and many disease conditions.

As more and more Boomers and Xers search the net for information, it becomes apparent who controls the disease industry. Big Pharmacy. Big Pharmacy is responsible for killing over 125,000 unsuspecting Americans each and every year according to the AMA. This being a fact, more and more people are searching for natural solutions to health challenges. Unfortunately the average lay person has never heard about glycobiology, glycomics, or glyconutrient technology.

Glycobiology is one of the newest and fastest growing fields in the science community. Notice how I said science and not medicine! Oxford University, Johns Hopkins, UC Scripps, UC Irvine, just to name a few utilizing a $34million grant by the National Institute of Health to study glycobiology. I dont see that in other fields of nutrition do you?

Glycomics, according to MIT Technology Review in 2003, WILL be one of the Top 10 technologies to change the world.

As a result of this breakthrough science, nutritional companies are using science to produce safe, non-toxic food supplements to counter Big Pharmacy attempting to synthesize, again, what is normally found in nature.

You see, every single drug ever manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry has a level, known as an LD-50 that will KILL 50% of a test group.

Food doesnt kill but there is no money in food for the drug companies. Or is there? Why then are many nutritional lines owned by drug companies? Come on folks, use some common sense! If drug companies wanted you healthy they would be broke and out of business.

While doing a search on Google you may find several companies listing glyconutrients, however to my knowledge only one company has been granted a Composition of Matter patent on the exclusive formula available for all established glyconutrients.

This becomes extremely important when researching companies.

Functional food supplements are supplements from food. When looking for supplements you need to look for supplements that are standardized. This means every pill or capsule contains exactly what the label says it does. Nothing more, nothing less.

A label should tell you everything. Whole food, Standardized, etc. When looking at vitamin and mineral supplements look to see if they contain either chealated or colloidal minerals. Then avoid them and keep looking!

Minerals are salts. Salts are rocks. Rocks are not readily or easily absorbed into the body as food with the exception of selenium. A rock is rock is a rock. Chealated minerals are rocks that are covered with an amino acid to attempt to psych out the stomach and intestinal tract that it is a food. Being intelligently designed, the body knows the difference.

Colloidal minerals are rocks crushed into liquid. So we go back to rocks.

Ever wonder why women with osteoporosis who consume calcium supplements usually continue to have poor bone density tests? The body needs calcium from FOOD!

These type of supplements are usually considered Second Generation.

First Generation supplements were synthetic derivatives, chemically altered with petroleum and coal tar products to produce a cheap product that could be mass produced. Any product that contains USP vitamins or minerals fall in this category and would probably be better off in your gas tank than in your stomach.

First and second generation vitamins and minerals are partly the reason many medical doctors say supplements only produce expensive urine.

So you need to look for Third Generation vitamin and mineral supplements.

While on the subject of medical doctors and nutrition, it blows me away when I talk with patients about supplements and they want to ask their doctor.

Naturopaths, homeopaths, and chiropractors are the experts! You would be better off asking a gas station attendant information on supplements than your average medical doctor. When researching some of our countrys most prestigious medical schools, I was shocked to learn that the average doctor in a residency program has only had up to 25 hours of total nutrition education! Most have never heard the term glycobiology. Yet every doctor graduating since 2002 has finally been introduced to this science. Harpers Biochemistry was completely rewritten in 1996 to incorporate and entire chapter on glycoproteins (sugar bound proteins). It was updated last year as well.

SO for all you Boomers and Xers just know that there is help available to heal, repair, restore, and regenerate cells within your body. When given the proper nutrient dense, safe, non-toxic, natural product, you body will finally be able to say thank you.

Then maybe, just maybe, youll be able to get off your toxic cocktails and begin to enjoy the golden years with optimal health. Then fire your health professional and find one who has your health as their only concern.

Dr. Tom has trained thousands in lifestyle improvements over the course of 9 years. As a Lifestyle Adjusting Coach Dr. Tom takes what you bring him and helps you to see the potential of your health and wealth.

Dr. Tom can be contacted at drtomt@verizon.net or 760-446-1088.