Over the past few years, stem cells have been getting a lot of
attention. What makes them so interesting is their ability to
stimulate the production of many types of healthy cells. That
means that a single stem cell can turn itself into brain cells,
liver cells, skin cells, pancreas cells, and so on. 

In February of 2003, an article about stem cells was published
in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). A
team of researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Center reported,
for the first time, that undifferentiated donor stem cells were
able to cross the blood brain barrier and morph themselves into
neuronal cells. 

This was an especially important finding because, of all the
cells in the body, neuron cells are the most advanced and
complicated. This is significant because it means that if stem
cells can morph themselves into brain neurons, then, chances are
they can transform themselves into other types of cells too. 

In a separate but related area of science, there is a growing
body of evidence that a specialized area of nutrition called
“glyconutrition” is causing the body to manufacture its own stem
cells from its own bone marrow. This research is being overseen
by Dr. Reg McDaniel M.D. at the Fischer Institute. 

Until the JAMA article came out, Dr. McDaniel’s team were in
quite a quandary as to how people with varying neurological
disorders such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Children’s Cerebral
Palsy, Down’s Syndrome, and Autism, were all experiencing
increases in brain function when glyconutrients and other
micronutrients were added to their diets. 

After the initial discovery that stem cells stimulated the
growth of neuron cells, researchers wanted to know if these
newly created neuron cells worked correctly. To do this, they
turned their attention to children in comas. One was a boy who
had been in a coma for three years. Glyconutrients were added to
his feeding tube and within five days his doctor started seeing
changes in his brain function. 

All this is became more noteworthy when it was discovered that
this wasn’t an isolated case. Other cases have been reported in
which children have been awakened from long-term comas after
receiving glyconutritional supplements introduced through
feeding tubes. 

Following up on these findings, a group of pediatric
neurologists have begun a glyconutrition study on 20 children
who are in comas. 

In yet another case study, a six-year-old boy had been in a coma
for three years. During that time his EEG measurements were
virtually flat. Glyconutrients were introduced into his diet and
over a six-month period, his EEG activity increased
significantly. Here again was a clear connection between the
introduction of glyconutrients and restored neurological brain
function. 

In another case study, Sara, a premature infant with fetal
alcohol syndrome, who also had heart defects and cerebral palsy
at birth, underwent a dramatic turn for the better when
glyconutrients were introduced to her regimen. In this case,
Sara was born prematurely and the only way to introduce
glyconutrients into her little body was to rub a special
glyconutrition cream into her skin. This went on until she was
well enough to go home from the hospital. After that, her mother
regularly added glyconutrients to her formula. 

When she was four years old, she was examined by her pediatric
specialist. Amazingly, he found no evidence of fetal alcohol
syndrome or cerebral palsy. Even better, her little heart had
developed normally and no longer required surgery. 

One of the interesting aspects of this particular case history
is that Sara was photographed when she was born and her face
showed the obvious distorted characteristics of a child with
severe fetal alcohol syndrome. By the time she was four years
old, all of her facial anomalies disappeared. Her IQ also
increased from less than 80 to over 100. For a child born with
fetal alcohol syndrome, this type of recovery is virtually
unprecedented. Now, while these individual case histories are
quit remarkable, they do not in and of themselves constitute
scientific proof. However, they have generated a lot of hope and
more importantly, have stimulated interest on the part of the
medical community to conduct new studies and research in this
exciting and fast growing area of nutritional technology.

David Lear