In this season of giving gifts and thanks, let us take a minute to honor the sweet foundation of Mannatech’s success: Manapol aloe vera gel extract. Manapol extract, Mannatech’s very special polysaccharide, is a long-chain carbohydrate consisting mostly of the simple sugar mannose. It was licensed to Mannatech in 1994 when we first introduced the [...]
The brain is an exceedingly complex structure, a vital component of the central nervous system that is essential for life. It is well known that nutrition, especially early nutrition, plays a key role in the development and function of the brain. This being so, it would be expected that appropriate nutritional supplementation, one of the [...]
Did you know that 95% of vitamin/mineral supplements sold in North America today are synthetic?1 In most cases, that means you’ll find rocks, petroleum and coal tar in the supplements you’re taking to help you maintain a healthy life. A bit shocking, isn’t it? It’s a mantra that we at Mannatech® have placed at the very center [...]
It is generally accepted that health doesn’t just miraculously appear. Rather, it is the end result of a process that begins at the cellular level in the body and cascades through tissues and organs to ultimately be identified at the clinical level. To be clinically healthy, it is essential that the process start with healthy [...]
An international group of vitamin D experts recently published the Endocrine Society’s (ES) Vitamin D Clinical Practice Guidelines, which challenge some of the key findings of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) recent vitamin D Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) and tolerable upper limit (UL) recommendations¥2. The Endocrine Society also challenged the IOM’s [...]
Here at Mannatech, understanding the science behind our products and exploring the numerous ways in which our products benefit health are practices that are extremely important to us. To share our research with our Associate base and consumers, we developed our very own science-based website—MannatechScience.org. In case you aren’t already aware of this great resource, [...]
From where I sit in Mannatech’s Research and Development (R&D) department, I see many things that make me proud. First and foremost, I’m proud that Mannatech makes great products.
I have two dear friends—we’ll call them Julie and Sara—who both recently faced decisions about their health. Julie, an accountant, lives here in Dallas, Texas. Sara, a biologist, lives in another state. Because of the nature of my work here at Mannatech—evaluating science that investigates associations between nutrition and health—it has been hard for me [...]
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