Sickle Cell and Trehalose
2008 October 30
When most people think of sugar they think that it is BAD. However, what we have been taught is not always right given that understanding changes with time. Trehalose is a sugar that not only has none of the negative effects associated with table sugar or sucrose and in fact has many benefits. These benefits are too many and too technical to talk about here but this short video introduces what we have seen regarding Trehalose and Sickle Cell. If you want more detailed information about Trehalose please click here or if you want to try some click here
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FYI, Sickle Cell was imported into America via slave ships. I am four generations away from that voyage and I got SCD from both of my parents. So much for migration.
Question: What is Trehalose?
Hi – I totally empathise with you – we are seeing the same problem with population migration into southern Europe and the Middle East. Sickle cell is now rife in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and Thalessemia is a common issue in the Greek and Turkish populations. What we are about is empirical (i.e. trial and error) development of a dietary strategy to, at the least, aim to produce a package of dietary advice to improve the lot of people with SC.
Trehalose is one of those things that we’ve seen help people with SC and it may yet offer some real hope in terms of the long term management of SC. It seems that Trehalose may help the body produce fewer malfolded proteins at the heart of the malformed Haemoglobin structure. Trehalose is a plant based disaccharide molecule that has some very interesting potential health benefits that I’m not prepared to talk about online. If you go to this site trehalose there is far more information.
This is just about the only hypothesis that would support the results that we’ve seen with at least a couple of people whose HG levels have risen to almost normal levels.
If you’d like to talk just e mail me (paul@pabarton.com) and we can set a time.
By the way we’d like to add your blog to our links. Please confirm if this is ok. Lets work together to raise the profile of Sickle Cell.
Regards Paul Barton
Trehalose is a unique sugar found in many types of plants and occurs naturally in very small amounts in a variety of foods such as mushrooms, honey, and foods with bakers and brewers yeast. In simple terms Trehalose is made from 2 glucose molecules that are joined by very strong bonds that are created during an enzymatic process.
These bonds are the key to why Trehalose is very different to other plant sugars.
Commercially, Trehalose is made from corn-starch which is put through a patented process that involves an enzyme. When ingested Trehalose is not broken down into Glucose nearly as quickly as corn starch, sucrose, fructose or any other starchy or sugary compound.
Compared to Glucose Trehalose has virtually no immediate or long term effect on blood Glucose levels and it is this feature that makes it of great interest to anyone struggling with blood sugar level management. Once ingested the Trehalose is only converted to Glucose in the small intestine and it is this that results in a lower blood glucose level.
Trehalose is not recommended for infants.
It supplies energy with a clean taste and half the sweetness of sucrose. As a result, trehalose is effective in enhancing – not masking – the natural flavours in different types of foods.
for more information go to buytrehalose.co.uk