Short Biography

Harley Reginald McDaniel. M.D.

Dr. McDaniel was born in Texas and received all his education in the state.  He graduated from Southwestern University with Honors with a double major in chemistry and biology.  Medical School was complete in 1962 at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas.  Boards in clinical and anatomic pathology were completed in 1966 at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas.   The private practice of pathology was conducted from 1966 to 1994.  As the Chief of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories at Dallas-Ft. Worth Medical Center, he was director of medical education at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Grand Prairie for five years and on the clinical faculty as an instructor at Southwestern Medical School since 1966.

In 1976 Dr. McDaniel was introduced to the value of aloe vera gel by Ivan Danhof, M.D., Ph.D., gastroenterologist who saw refractory ulcerative colitis patients respond to the natural prodcut.  In 1985 he was recruited to be the physician member of a research team that developed the active glyconutrients principle of aloe vera.  A multi-disciple team of scientists was assembled by Carrington Labs to inquire into why 8 patients with AIDS reported major benefits for their health status upon consuming daily amounts of aloe leaf gel.     Dr. McDaniel is a co-inventor with Bill McAnalley, Ph.D. along with other research team members on the patents for Manapole, i.e. polymannose, the totally non-toxic complex carbohydrate, a glyconutrient,  found to be the bioactive antiviral molecule in aloe vera gel.   Initial patents were filed in 1996 for Ambrotose, a blend of known glyconutrients designed to support cellular synthesis while serving as the medical director for Mannatech Inc. for 8 years.

1996 saw Dr. McDaniel share in the American Naturapathic Society annual recognition award for the biochemical discovery of the year.   In 1999 Dr. McDaniel was by invitation asked to lecture on the pediatric value of glyconutrients to the Staff of the Surgeon General.  The anticancer benefits of phytochemical micronutrion was presented to the Comprehensive Cancer 2000 Conference sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.  The 17th International Congress on Nutrition was addressed by invitation of the United Nations Office on Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy,  speaking on How Micronutrition can Improve World Health at an Unparalleled Low Cost.  This was followed by a presentation to a House Hearing on Bioterrorism in November 2001 on how glyconutrition provides an economical and effective means to support general body defense mechanisms and block bioterrorist infectious agents.  The 9th World Congress on Clinical Nutrition was addressed in 2002 on the benefits seen in terminal AIDS patients with multiple drug resistance.   On request, the Tribal Council of the Lakota Sioux was brief in August, 2002 on restoration of children with fetal alcohol syndrome, diabetes and cancer by use of micronutrients.   Additional medical forums and medical school grand rounds have been addressed on the value of micronutrition in hepatis C, reversal of the aging process, fetal alcohol syndrome, behavior problems and vascular developmental lesions in children.

In July 2002, Dr. McDaniel became the medical director for MannaRelief Ministries that has a mission to make the micronutrients available to children whose families could never supply the dietary supplements to their chronically ill children. 

To obtain additional educational material or documents handed-out at the above presentations and more conferences, information can be obtained at  the Fisher Institute for Medical Research    Helen@fisherinstitute.org and video tapes at duplipack@aol.com     For scheduling lectures contact jimillick@mannatrelief.org

Posted 6-20-05

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