Unleashing the Power Within
It was a revelation so simple. If aloe vera could work
such wonders on the outside of the human body,
what might it do from the inside? What role could
this ancient plant play in the world of science and
wellness? What doors could this mysterious key
unlock?
The decision was made to find out, and in the early
1980s a research team was employed to identify and
isolate the plant’s beneficial ingredient.
Using state-of-the-art analytical research equipment,
this great team researched and experimented until
one day the discovery was finally made. The results
reached far beyond their expectations.
A long-chained carbohydrate, a complex sugar consisting
of only mannose was the key. To understand the role of
mannose, the scientists started at the beginning—the basic
building block of the body: the human cell. Soon it was
discovered that the outer structure of cells are covered with
hundreds of long-chained carbohydrates.
Never before had science validated a beneficial effect from
a sugar molecule, but aloe vera changed everything. It was
discovered that our cells communicate through cell surface
carbohydrates or sugars. Our cells use only a few vital sugars
like letters of the alphabet to make these cellular words. It
turned out that the primary sugar in these cellular words is
mannose, the primary sugar in aloe vera gel.
Nature’s Gift Goes to Market
In 1994, Man-Aloe® products were one of the first aloe-vera-
based formulas to come to market from Mannatech. Through
additional study and a global search for the finest ingredients,
the next generation of aloe-vera-based formulations was
created.