Balance=Wellness

What does it mean to be healthy anyway? Health is a state of complete physical, mental and well-being and not merely the absence of disease. Health promotion is the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health. Being healthy is about being in balance. Balance = Wellness.

Did you know that 80% of American children and 68% of American adults fail to consume the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables each day?

To strengthen your immune system, you must address the needs of the systems in your body starting at the cellular level. A strong immune system is essential for health. The human immune system is a very complex system of the human body. The immune system involves your skin, intestines, nasal mucosa, blood, lymph, white blood cells, stem cells, b-cells and many other organs and tissues. Factors that impair the immune system include nutrient deficiencies, contaminated air, water and food, unhealthful lifestyles and too much exposure to harmful microbes.

The immune defense system is a body-wide network of organs, tissues, cells, and protein substances that work together to defend the body against attacks by "foreign" invaders. Those invaders are primarily germs—tiny, infection-causing organisms such as bacteria and viruses, parasites and fungi.

The immune system is amazingly complex. It can recognize millions of different enemies, and it can enlist specialized cells and secretions to seek out and destroy each of them.

Medical research acknowledges that eight glyconutrient sugars are needed at the cellular level for optimum immune system function. Considering that six of these glyconutrients are often lacking in modern diets, Mannatech sought new and better sources of the nutrients. The effort culminated in the Ambrotose complex. Twenty patents – including one from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office – have been issued to Mannatech for technology related to the Ambrotose complex.