[pct-l] The Desert

[Mike Chapman]

Thats what I was told,but is there a chance that the aloe has these
minerals inside? It was a supplement that my cancer patient uncle was
supplied and he beleived it extended his life. Could be a sugar
pill,snake oil thing,sorry if I was incorrect(if).

On 1/10/11, Gerry Zamora <gerry0625 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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