Glyconutritionals? Ambotose?

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Hi! I am looking into alternative treatments for my daughters ADHD-In type. I have been reasearching glyconutritonals and Ambotose. Has anyone tried this ?
Right now I am trying Natural Health...it is amino acid supplement....seem to work a little but my daughter doen't really like to take it.
Thanks for any help.
nat

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Ambrotose is pretty expensive stuff! Its "glyconutrients" are plant saccharides...in other words, it's sugar. The only published research on glyconutrition and ADHD has been conducted by Mannatech (who makes and sells Ambrotose), and it's only a couple of studies, and they are not very current).
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9594355

Even on their own website promoting the product, there are no research citations relevant to ADHD other than what was conducted by the gentleman who did the above study.
www.glycoscience.com/glycoscience/section_viewer.wm?SECTION=NUTRITIONALS&MAIN=glyconutritionals

There's a rather interesting article on the junk science, faked science, and questionable scientific theory behind Ambrotose here:
www.masmith.inspired.net.au/docs/mannatec.htm

The National Council Against Health Fraud warns against placing your confidence in Mannatech and outlines the company's history of less-than-truthful marketing and the CEO's history of legal trouble surrounding those less-than-truthful claims.
www.ncahf.org/articles/j-n/mannatech.html

For an interesting approach to glyconutrition, you might want to check out an article written by Dr. Bird, a clinical nutritionist, that lists dietary sources of the simple sugars found in Ambrotose, provides recipes for your own sugar powder, and for a glyconutrient jelly.
www.lis.net.au/~dbird/glyconutrients.htm

And if you do try the Ambrotose...who knows, it just might help. The whole field of research into glycoproteins and their functions is pretty underdeveloped so there's a lot we don't know. Taking sugar pills (or sugar powder) won't hurt you. So this is pretty much a no-risk treatment to experiment with. If you do try it, I know we'd love to hear about your results.

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:)Thanks so much for your reply. i skimmed over every one of the links you showed and I am going back to read them more thoroughly. I think it is good to see both sides before you try anything. I am reallly hoping to find an alternative to meds to help my daughter.
i appreciate all the time you took to reply and post those links.
nat605