GOOD SUGARS - BAD SUGARS
Like fats, there are "bad" and "good" sugars, and the difference can transform you health in days—or even minutes.
Sugar isn’t only sweet to us—germs love it too. The sugar you are attracted to is a magnet for germs as well. The sugar in your body sends out chemical signals that draw them like moths to a flame. By reading the "sugar code" on your cell walls, these pathogens target cells all over your body. But what if you could turn that secret code against you microbial enemies?
Good sugars aren’t found in table sugar, but they do show up in small quantities in certain fruits, like cranberries. Their molecules are just a little different, but it makes a huge difference to germs. Instead of just waiting to be eaten, these good sugars overwhelm germs by jamming their chemical "radar" and blocking the cellular receptors these pathogens grab hold of — like coating your cells with Teflon. Germs have a hard time finding your cells—but if they do manage to locate a few, they’re too slippery to cling to. Because they can’t hang on, your body fluids wash these germs away harmlessly.
Sugar X in a nose spray can prevent the harmful bacteria from living there. Now there is a natural process for cleaning this nest that will regularly help to remove infection causing bacteria as well as the irritants that trigger allergies and asthma. Cleaning the nose regularly should be a part of our everyday maintenance—like brushing our teeth, washing our hands, cleaning our bodies and ridding them of bacteria so that we can get on with the other things we have to do. This vehicle is the only one you have to travel this road.
Xylitol is a sugar alcohol, obtained commercially from wood sugar, xylose. It is a natural substance and the body makes about 10 grams every day. It is not a drug. It is commonly used as a sugar substitute in many foods, especially chewing gum, because it prevents tooth decay. Most people are not aware of this benefit because such a claim makes xylitol into a drug, crossing a boundary not allowed by the Food and Drug Administration.
There are three reasons Nasal Xylitol Works:
Xylitol decreases the adherence of harmful bacteria to the cells in our nose and selects for bacteria that cause fewer infections.
The concentration of xylitol stimulates our own defensive washing of the nose.
The xylitol decreases the concentration of salt in the airway surface fluid which helps our own antibiotic substances there to be more effective—the problem with saline.
All of these totally are new concepts in medical practice. But they are concepts whose time has come because they provide a safe and reasonable option to some of the major health problems that we now face with infections and allergies.
The most common and accepted way of dealing with bacteria is to kill them with antibiotics. But we have to use the more expensive and potent newer antibiotics because the bacteria have become resistant to the earlier generations of antibiotics. The more antibiotics we use, the more problems we have with resistant bacteria.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS FACING US TODAY as we deal with infections. We need other options—and we have them, but they don’t make any money for our profit oriented health care system so there is no motive for studying them and few people know about them.
Before bacteria can cause an infection they have to be able to attach to our body. What they hold on to are specific sugars or sugar complexes that are on the surfaces of our cells. Putting these sugars, or other similar looking sugars, in with the bacteria fills up their binding sites and decreases the ability of bacteria to hold on to our body’s cells.
A runny nose is our body’s attempt to clean irritants from the nose. The increases we have experienced in airway problems, both infectious and allergenic, coincide with our harmful use of drugs that block our normal defensive nasal cleaning. Stimulating this defensive nasal washing is a better idea that blocking it. Supporting other defenses is also a more healthy approach.
Allergies and asthma are triggered by irritants in the nose. Regularly cleaning these irritants removes the triggers and reduces the problems.
Now you know the rest of the story. Xylitol is available at health stores and can be searched on the web. It comes in nasal sprays, sugar substitutes, toothpaste and gum.
Your local health food store is realizing that it is rapidly becoming the best selling item at our country's health food stores. You or they can order some by calling Xlear, Inc., at toll-free 1 (877) 599-5327 within the US (they can also tell you about the gum xylitol). Xlear also maintains a web site at http://www.xlear.com./ or search xylitol on the internet.
Disclaimer: All material provided is for educational purposes only in the hope of improving our general health. No attempt is made to create a doctor-patient relationship nor should the information contained be considered specific medical advice.
Sugar isn’t only sweet to us—germs love it too. The sugar you are attracted to is a magnet for germs as well. The sugar in your body sends out chemical signals that draw them like moths to a flame. By reading the "sugar code" on your cell walls, these pathogens target cells all over your body. But what if you could turn that secret code against you microbial enemies?
Good sugars aren’t found in table sugar, but they do show up in small quantities in certain fruits, like cranberries. Their molecules are just a little different, but it makes a huge difference to germs. Instead of just waiting to be eaten, these good sugars overwhelm germs by jamming their chemical "radar" and blocking the cellular receptors these pathogens grab hold of — like coating your cells with Teflon. Germs have a hard time finding your cells—but if they do manage to locate a few, they’re too slippery to cling to. Because they can’t hang on, your body fluids wash these germs away harmlessly.
Sugar X in a nose spray can prevent the harmful bacteria from living there. Now there is a natural process for cleaning this nest that will regularly help to remove infection causing bacteria as well as the irritants that trigger allergies and asthma. Cleaning the nose regularly should be a part of our everyday maintenance—like brushing our teeth, washing our hands, cleaning our bodies and ridding them of bacteria so that we can get on with the other things we have to do. This vehicle is the only one you have to travel this road.
Xylitol is a sugar alcohol, obtained commercially from wood sugar, xylose. It is a natural substance and the body makes about 10 grams every day. It is not a drug. It is commonly used as a sugar substitute in many foods, especially chewing gum, because it prevents tooth decay. Most people are not aware of this benefit because such a claim makes xylitol into a drug, crossing a boundary not allowed by the Food and Drug Administration.
There are three reasons Nasal Xylitol Works:
Xylitol decreases the adherence of harmful bacteria to the cells in our nose and selects for bacteria that cause fewer infections.
The concentration of xylitol stimulates our own defensive washing of the nose.
The xylitol decreases the concentration of salt in the airway surface fluid which helps our own antibiotic substances there to be more effective—the problem with saline.
All of these totally are new concepts in medical practice. But they are concepts whose time has come because they provide a safe and reasonable option to some of the major health problems that we now face with infections and allergies.
The most common and accepted way of dealing with bacteria is to kill them with antibiotics. But we have to use the more expensive and potent newer antibiotics because the bacteria have become resistant to the earlier generations of antibiotics. The more antibiotics we use, the more problems we have with resistant bacteria.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS FACING US TODAY as we deal with infections. We need other options—and we have them, but they don’t make any money for our profit oriented health care system so there is no motive for studying them and few people know about them.
Before bacteria can cause an infection they have to be able to attach to our body. What they hold on to are specific sugars or sugar complexes that are on the surfaces of our cells. Putting these sugars, or other similar looking sugars, in with the bacteria fills up their binding sites and decreases the ability of bacteria to hold on to our body’s cells.
A runny nose is our body’s attempt to clean irritants from the nose. The increases we have experienced in airway problems, both infectious and allergenic, coincide with our harmful use of drugs that block our normal defensive nasal cleaning. Stimulating this defensive nasal washing is a better idea that blocking it. Supporting other defenses is also a more healthy approach.
Allergies and asthma are triggered by irritants in the nose. Regularly cleaning these irritants removes the triggers and reduces the problems.
Now you know the rest of the story. Xylitol is available at health stores and can be searched on the web. It comes in nasal sprays, sugar substitutes, toothpaste and gum.
Your local health food store is realizing that it is rapidly becoming the best selling item at our country's health food stores. You or they can order some by calling Xlear, Inc., at toll-free 1 (877) 599-5327 within the US (they can also tell you about the gum xylitol). Xlear also maintains a web site at http://www.xlear.com./ or search xylitol on the internet.
Disclaimer: All material provided is for educational purposes only in the hope of improving our general health. No attempt is made to create a doctor-patient relationship nor should the information contained be considered specific medical advice.
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