[pct-l] The Desert

[Gerry Zamora]

Brick your right it is more sugar based I didn't see a single salt listed
not saying the product isn't good just not as described on here.
Gerry
On Jan 10, 2011 1:34 AM, "Tom Hudson" <vertigelt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never heard of ambrotose until 10 minutes ago, but one trivial bit of
> the college biochemistry I remember is that compounds ending in "-ose" are
> sugars. Glucose, Dextrose, Sucrose, etc. They aren't usually ionic in
> nature, and therefore aren't salts.
>
> As for whether Abrotose has any nutritional value at all... web searches
> lead one through a gallery of articles that are very critical of its
> manufacturer, Mannatech, or through a maze of gobbledygook, fluffy science
> sites that all eventually point back to the manufactuere. Not a single
> source I'd consider credible is featured prominantly One good blog post I
> found on why this might be is here:
>
> http://blog.glyconutrientsreference.com/?p=13
>
> On every site that criticizes the legitimiacy of the suppliment or any
> peer-reviewed journals to support it, there are a number of respondants
who
> make incredible claims as to how they've been helped (almost miraculously)
> by the "glyconutrients" in the product. But, unsubstatiated, unverifiable
> claims posted by God-knows-who on the Internet are meaningless.
>
> The one credible source I could find was cancer.org. They basically say
> that many claims regarding the beneiftsof glyconutrients have been widely
> made, and that there is zero evidence to support those claims.
>
>
http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/glyconutrients
>
> Glyconutrients are eight sugars that are used to make glycoproteins, which
> are very important to cellular communication. But it is exceedingly rare
> for humans to be deficient in those sugars, and so supplementing them has
> absolutely reasonable means of providing benefit.
>
> Anyways, from my cursory search... it's snake oil.
>
> /Tom
>
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Brick Robbins <brick at brickrobbins.com
>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Mike Chapman <altathunder76 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I would like to add that there are 3 types of salt your body really
>> > needs,I advise a supplement called ambertose,its very costly,but
>> > athletes and celebritys and even cancer patients use it.
>>
>> Ambertose is a very expensive, multi-level marketed (think Amway)
>> blend of plant sugars.
>>
>> I don't see anything about mineral salts in the description
>> http://chetday.com/glyconutrients.htm
>>
>> In water, salt breaks down into electrolytes
>>
>> The two that are lost in sweat the most are
>> * sodium (Na+)
>> * potassium (K+)
>>
>> They both typically come with chloride (Cl-)
>>
>> The others you need are
>> * calcium (Ca2+)
>> * magnesium (Mg2+)
>> * bicarbonate (HCO3-)
>> * phosphate (PO42-)
>> * sulfate (SO42-)
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