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December 21, 2001

The New Nutrition and Doubting Doctors

Dear Doctor:

Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to introduce you to a monumental discovery in Healthcare, only recently acknowledged (1996) in Medical Journals and Textbooks.

When I first heard about G l y c o n u t r i e n t s 2-1/2 years ago, I was closed-minded-- call it skeptical, dubious, or cynical- as you and the rest of our Medical profession would have been, and are. I was, however, receptive enough to read the pertinent Medical Journals supplied to me, and I must admit I was a little jarred at the implications of what I read. I began to look into what turned out to be an overwhelming amount of related literature: Carbohydrate Metabolism is suddenly a hot subject--over 20,000 papers in Medline 1996-1998, and an equal number since. 

"Carbohydrates were always acknowledged to be just for energy. Not any more!! Of the 200 known simple saccharides), there are 8 now recognized to be essential to all cellular function. They are glucose, galactose, mannose, xylose, fucose (not fructose), N-acetylneuraminic acid ( also called sialic acid), N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylgalactosamine. 

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What could possibly be the common denominator of all these? Immune System Dysfunction! Why? Something is missing! ...

Glyconutrients are not a treatment, mitigation, or cure for any disease, but if these food supplements are supplied in the diet, the body can heal itself of virtually anything wrong! ...

These 8 monosaccharides are in and on the surface of every cell in the body. They are necessary as the glyco of glycoproteins on the surface of every cell, as transmitter or receptor, of all the vital reactions between cells: defense, repair, regulation, nutrition, and apoptosis

This is the Universal Code of Life, equivalent to the Microsoft Operating System, which runs all computers! This is extremely complicated and has to be, not 99.9999% perfect, but 100%, or there is dysfunction, disease, or death! I have studied it intensively, still know so little, but yet enough to be awed and excited by what I have witnessed! 

Cell-to-cell communication via a “Zip code” has been studied & researched.

Dr. Robert K Murray, Senior Editor of Harper's Biochemistry (Appleton and Lange,1996) wrote the chapters 56 through 65 on: Glycoproteins; The 8 Essential Monosaccharides; The Extracellular Matrix; Muscle Metabolism; The Immune System; etc. I now have the 2001 revision, and am poring over the awesome biochemical reactions, newly-discovered, in this explosively growing segment of Biochemistry: Glycoscience, Glycobiology, and Glycomics!

The new Biochemistry: Glycobiology, Glycoscience, Glycomics: Glyconutrients!

For those who might be interested in my “pedigree”, I have BA and MD degrees (1939) University of Colorado: (Phi Beta Kappa, and Alpha Omega Alpha, Honor Medical Society). Lt. Col. Medical Corps. Army of US, WW II; Diplomate American Board of Internal Medicine; Fellow American College of Physicians (FACP); Fellow American of College Cardiology (FACC); Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Tulsa; Past Chairman Medical Section, St John Medical Center and of St. Francis Hospital; past Vice-President Medical Staff St. John Hospital; past President Medical Staff St. Francis Hospital.

Please be open-minded, for your own sake, and for that of all your patients. And in so doing you will honor the aphorism of that wise old Doctor, Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, whose first concern with his patients was “Primum non nocere.” Above all, do no harm! And his next was “Let your food be your medicine, and let your Medicine be your food.”            

                 What goes around comes around! 

                      Rayburne W. Goen, Sr. MD

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