Cell-to-cell Communication

Cell-to-cell Communication: A new health Frontier

The human body is comprised of over 560 trillion cells, each of which has a specific function that must be performed properly, and at the right time for the body to work as a whole. For cells to work properly, they must be in constant communication with the rest of the body. But cells don't have their own nervous systems. They don't know how to feed themselves, how to fight off invaders, how to secrete enzymes or hormones, or how to make repairs. All of these vital functions are controlled by intercellular communication.

So what is controlling the body's extremely complex nutritional switchboard of cells?

For many years, these questions stymied medical science. The human brain is capable of amazing things, but it simply isn't directly connected to every cell of the body. In 1999, renowned scientist Gunter Blobel won a Nobel Price for finding the answer to these questions. Blobel discovered that the human body's cellular communication network is based on some very special nutrients: essential saccharides, or sugars. And research continues to this day to reveal the responsibilities of these crucial nutrients and their effect on human health.