The International Aloe Science Council, Inc. July 2001

Inside Aloe The International Aloe Science Council, Inc. July 2001

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Aloe, Immunity and Health Care

Editor’s Note: Dr Bob Siegel has been very Modern laboratory technology finds gracious to the Council and has supplied much hundreds of nutrients in Aloe Vera and a specific enzymes for transport and information, most of it in the polysaccharide area. remarkably high level of mannan chaperone functions and sophisticated He delivered two papers at our last seminar. He saccharides. What are the benefits to our biosynthesis [glyco conjugations within cell also consults for aloe companies. If you wish to health when we take mannans into our organelles] building “smart” glycoproteins get in touch with him, please contact the IASC body? What is special for our health is that (GP) signal structures. office. Thank You Dr Siegel functional mannan/mannose molecules And now we are discovering the Health problems today are becoming (MMM) are found throughout the major molecular language of the first wave chronic, complex, and resistant. Our signal pathways of our innate immunity. immune defenses-especially the Lectins immune system is burdening by increasing Literally all organs in our body are carbohydrate super family---with intense toxins, stress, aging, sedentary life, financial protected by mannan glycoprotein (GP) research exploring the serum Mannan worries … which distinguish patterns of Self versus Binding Protein. And remarkably, we are No penicillin quick cure Immune drug Non Self. GP mechanisms [signal-ligands- discovering a core code of the amino acid can be found in today’s drug store. Half of receptors] identify nearly all dangerous sequence required by mannose sensitive Texas medical internist report extreme micro organisms by their membrane proteins. frustration with a practice limited to signatures – mannan-molecular badges of Therefore, the window of opportunity symptom therapy not cures. Half our identity worn by bacteria, virus, toxins, opens as Aloe Immune science now population seeks alternative health answers. tumors, disease tissue and more. translates into practical, easy to use, safe “Our health care system is broken.” Functional mannans are traced through nutrient products. Research now describes And yet, answers for our health are our immune Domains of Recognition, of clinical conditions of allergy, asthma, growing literally right under our feet. Binding, and of Activation- and through our arthritis, auto- immune suggesting an A-Z Consider aloe Vera plants acknowledged body’s innate strategies of inflammation, possibility of health care products. for health benefits across the globe… and pluripotential macrophages and acute phase Reference: Science papers by Dr Siegel through the ages. reactants, and detoxification mechanisms. Our genetic scripts map for total (MMM) presented to the Annual International What are the benefits (documented) to Environmental Conference, 1998. Suggested when we take aloe into our body? absorption’s and renal conservation, focus papers from research groups including Drs LR Tizard, I. Danhof, R. McDaniel, S. Gordon, A. Ezekowitz