Glyco-Medicine: The Sugar-Centric Treatment Protocol

A Detailed Review of Archaeodiagnostics, Functional Syrup, and ClinicalIntervention. Glyco-medicine is the understanding of the glycocode in living organisms—the complexsystem of sugars that reside on cell surfaces and proteins, and which carry information aboutidentity and state. This paper presents the sugar-centric treatment protocol as a consequenceof this understanding. Two tools are defined: archaeodiagnostics, which reads the cell’sstate through the glycans on its proteins, and functional syrup, which uses specific, raresugars as probes in biological systems. The protocol is applied in place of antibiotics andworks by preventing adhesion, neutralizing antigens, and dissolving biofilms. Sepsis-8 ispresented as a detailed example of a sugar-centric protocol for Gram-negative sepsis. Thearticle concludes with a discussion of the perspectives for a systemic, information-basedapproach to health and disease.