Glyconutrients and Stem Cells

A nontechnical summary, prepared by TC North, Ph.D., CEO of Catalyst Consulting Group, of the presentation by H. Reg McDaniel, M.D., medical director, Manna Relief Ministries A professional abstract presented at the Third National Conference New Initiatives in the Prevention and Intervention of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects for Aboriginal Peoples of Canada.

Stem Cells

Stem cells have the ability to regenerate any other cell in the body. Thus a stem cell can become a neuron, a liver cell, a brain cell, a fingernail cell, etc.

On February 19, 2003, a remarkable article in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on research from Johns Hopkins Medical School reported for the first time that donor stem cells crossed the blood brain barrier and became neurons in the recipient’s brain. This is an important finding because neurons are the most highly advanced functional cells in the body; they control all brain and muscle functions. This is a recent revolutionary discovery about the potential to repair and regenerate the human brain.

Early research on glyconutrients (the necessary sugars) suggests that by adding glyconutrients to the human diet, there is an increase in production in one’s bone marrow stem cell production.

Until the JAMA article, Dr. McDaniel’s science team had not been unable to explain how adults with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s and children with cerebral palsy, leukodystrophy, Down syndrome, autism and FAS experience restorations in brain function with the addition of glyconutrients and other micronutrients to their diet.

Prior to this knowledge in 2003 from JAMA, there was no reasonable scientific explanation of how the many individuals with presumed permanent brain injury from strokes, trauma or neurodegenerative disorders could heal and regain lost central nervous system function that physicians and scientists had regarded as permanent and irreversible.

Our new understanding of glyconutrients stimulating the development of one’s bone marrow stem cells, which have the capacity to develop into any cell the body needs, provides us with a scientific understanding of how such unparalleled restorations of brain function can be induced by dietary supplementation of glyconutrients.

Important Scientific Questions

Do new or regenerated neurons in the brain that develop from stem cells function correctly? Consider the following case studies:

In a case history in 2002, a child who had been in a coma for three years began ingesting micronutrients. Within five days, his brain function started changing. There are also four other case histories in which parents gave these micronutrients to their children to awaken them from long-term comas. These case histories have created so much hope and interest that the pediatric neurologists who work with over 200 hopeless children in comas are beginning a pilot study on 20 of these children to better determine the potential affects of these micronutrients.

In another case study, a 6-year-old boy had been in a deep, unresponsive coma for three years. His EEG, which shows brain activity, was virtually flat in all parts of his brain before micronutrients. After six months of micronutrient supplementation, he had a phenomenal increase in activity in all parts of his brain. This increase in brain activity indicates restored neurological (brain) function associated with micronutrient dietary intake.

Another case history involves Sara, a premature FAS child with heart defects and cerebral palsy at birth. Sara’s adoptive mother began giving her micronutrients daily by rubbing a cream with glyconutrients on her entire body in the premature nursery. When Sara could drink from a bottle, the adoptive mother gave her glyconutrients followed by all of the micronutrients in a bottle. When evaluated by pediatric specialists at 4 years old, she no longer had any evidence of FAS or cerebral palsy, and her heart developed normally and required no surgery.

Photographs of Sara show that at birth her face displayed the characteristics of a child with severe FAS. By age four her face had lost all FAS characteristics and appeared “normal” and her IQ changed from less than 80 to over 100. This is an unprecedented change for an FAS child.

These individual case history reports do not provide scientific proof. However, they do give us hope and are leading to additional studies.

Summary

Dr. McDaniel’s science team has noted many unexplainable restorations of function of the central nervous system, pancreas cells, lung, kidney, and heart that defy explanation. The team has seen changes in people of all ages, including infants, children, teenagers, adults and some quite elderly, who were thought to be in irreversible health situations. The discovery of the stimulation of stem cell development in one’s body can take place within one week of adding glyconutrients. This may explain all of these medically impossible changes.

The potential benefits for supporting health recovery by using micronutrients are beyond material measure. You can purchase this study and help contribute to the research by going to www.fisherinstitute.org