AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a disease characterized by the destruction of the human immune system. When your immune system cannot function properly and protect your body from disease, all it takes is a common cold to start a disastrous chain of events that leads to many illness and deaths of people affected with AIDS.

Normally, the immune system does a great job of keeping people healthy and preventing infections. Those infected with AIDS, however, have many complications with which to contend. The immune system is the system of specialized cells and organs that protect an organism from outside biological influences. In a broad sense, almost every organ has a protective function (e.g., the skin). When the immune system is functioning properly, it protects the body against bacteria and viral infections, destroying cancer cells and foreign substances. If the immune system weakens, its ability to defend the body also weakens, allowing pathogens, including viruses that cause common colds and flu, to grow and flourish in the body. The immune system also performs surveillance of tumor cells, and immune suppression has been reported to increase the risk of certain types of cancer.

This is where glyconutrients enter the scene. Glyconutrients provide essential nutrients your body requires to modulate (balance) your immune system. The most important function of the immune system begins at the cellular level.

Glyconutrients are nutritional, plant-based carbohydrates (saccharides). When they are consumed in sufficient amounts, they provide what your body must have in order to produce the cell surface structures called glycoproteins for every cell in your entire body.

This is how the human immune system begins to communicate the vast amount of intercellular information that is required on a millisecond basis (the human immune system is truly amazing when it is supported properly). It's all about balance. For example, hormones need to be in the right ratios for defense mechanisms to function properly. Likewise, the body's delicate ph balance cannot be too acidic or too alkaline. These functions are all carefully controlled by microscopic cells of the immune system. When this system breaks down, disease results.

Your immune system begins at the cellular level! The most important thing you can do for your health is to restore the proper function to your cells, and this can only be achieved by restoring cellular health!

In 1984-85, a group of symptomatic HIV-1 positive patients reported that oral aloe juice alleviated their AIDS symptoms. It was found that the active, anti-viral ingredient in aloe leaf gel was polymannose. This is a micronutrient that supports synthesis of innate defense molecules that destroy multiple types of infectious agents including bacteria and viruses. The mechanism of action is not that of antibiotics that poison or block the metabolism of micro-organisms. The biochemistry and immunology supported by this glyconutrient type of micronutrient-based defense is based on the up-regulation of innate, natural mechanisms for protection against and destruction of micro-organisms. Thus, antibiotic resistant organisms are destroyed by this enhancement of natural defense mechanisms through optimal dietary supplementation. The exact site and step in glycoprotein synthesis within the cell where mannose of aloe origin is utilized has been defined. This led to recognizing and formulating a mixture of natural saccharides (dietary sugars) known to be necessary in the golgi to provide a more efficient cellular synthesis of defense and tissue repair molecules.