The Role of Supplements

Ask most nutrition experts and they’ll tell you they’d prefer people to get their vitamins and minerals from foods rather than supplements. But sometimes this isn’t always easy. There are proven circumstances where supplementation is essential. For example, women are advised to supplement their diets with folic acid both before and during pregnancy. And other nutrients that can be lacking, and require supplementation, include calcium and vitamin D for the prevention and management of osteoporosis, and fish oils for heart disease. The same principle applies to glyconutrients. To fill this nutritional gap, Mannatech developed Optimal Health.

It’s a family of four key supplements: the “flagship” glyconutritional supplement. Ambrotose: a multivitamin/multimineral called Catalyst; Ambrotose AO, which provides optimal amounts of water-soluble and fat-soluble dietary antioxidants; and Plus, which provides precursors, molecules for synthesis of essential hormones within the body.

Other glyconutrients exist, but Mannatech’s have a key difference. “Ours are not based on synthetic, non-food sugar structure,.” explains Robert Sinnott, chief science officer and vice president of research and development of US based Mannatech, a company that specializes in glyconutritional science. “They are formulated with rich sources of essential sugars isolated from real plants.”