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Steve Nugent
Chief Science & Health Officer and Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board, MANNATECH INC

Glycan 4Fx Dr Steve Nugent

📅 Jul 01, 2026 TheGlycans 10 MIN 1 SEGMENTS · 1 SPEAKERS

What Steve Nugent said

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Steve Nugent, Chief Science & Health Officer at Mannatech, introduced Lycan 4FX, a new mobility product using proteoglycan extracted from fish collagen. He explained that proteoglycan, a type of glycan, provides cushioning by retaining fluid in joints. Two placebo-controlled studies showed that combining proteoglycan with phosphatidylserine (PS) yields significant results in 4 days for most participants, compared to 30 days with proteoglycan alone. Nugent highlighted the product's patent-pending exclusivity and the inclusion of Ambrotose or Mannatech to enhance effectiveness. He emphasized the business advantage of a 'feel-good' product that users can recommend quickly. Nugent, a former US Marine in his early 70s, personally uses the product and recommends it for people over 40, though he advises starting younger. He expressed high confidence in the science and ingredients, including magnapole, and expects it to be an easy sell for associates.

Key takeaways

  1. Lycan 4FX combines proteoglycan from fish collagen with phosphatidylserine, yielding significant mobility results in 4 days for most users.
  2. Two placebo-controlled human studies support the product's efficacy, with proteoglycan alone showing results in 30 days.
  3. The product is patent-pending, offering exclusivity for Mannatech associates.
  4. Nugent personally uses Lycan 4FX and recommends it for people over 40, but advises starting younger.
  5. Combining Ambrotose or Mannatech with Lycan 4FX enhances its function, based on decades of experience.

Numbers and commitments

FigureWhat it refers toTypeAt
4 days Time to significant results with proteoglycan plus phosphatidylserine timeline 0:00
30 days Time to decent results with proteoglycan alone timeline 0:00
1995 Year Nugent started working with Mannatech timeline 0:00
over 40 Age group most likely to need mobility help other 0:00
early 70s Nugent's current age other 0:00
Steve Nugent 0:00 ↗
Well, this new product, Lycan 4FX, is really a step forward in terms of mobility. It's a different kind of approach than we've done before. I like the science, I like the ingredients, and I like the results. I like the really quick results with this. It's really pretty impressive. It's good science. It's been studied for quite a long time. So, what we're doing now is we're using proteoglycan, which is extracted from fish collagen. So, you do have the collagen structural benefit there. But, the proteoglycan, although proteoglycans do give you some amount of structural benefit, the really exciting thing about it is the fact that this is more for cushioning. And I know that sounds really good. If you've been having mobility problems, you're thinking about, 'Yeah, some cushion would be kind of good there.' Well, we're talking about being able to retain the right kind of fluid in the right places in your joints, so you have a lot more cushion. Now, the cushion, obviously, is going to make you feel better, and it's going to allow you to be more mobile and, hopefully, more active as well as a result of feeling that sort of cushion in your step, if you will. So, think of glycan as the big umbrella. Okay, a glycan is the big thing under which everything else falls. One of those things would be proteoglycans. So, a proteoglycan is a glycan also, but it's different in its structure. The proteoglycan by itself has some really strong properties to help with mobility. And by itself, it's a very good mobility ingredient. What could make it better? Well, there've been two studies. And these are good studies. These are placebo-controlled studies. And in the studies, they tried to have people just on the proteoglycan alone, the exact same one that we're using. And then they also had a group that had the proteoglycan combined with something called phosphatidylserine. Now, you may see this listed in a lot of literature simply as PS, just the letters PS. So, phosphatidylserine, what is it normally used for? Well, if you were going to look it up on the internet, then inevitably everyone will, you're going to find lots of references to brain function, memory function, cognitive function. And all that's true. And that's what phosphatidylserine has been studied for the most. But, everything in nutrition, so many people don't realize this, but everything in nutrition has at least one cofactor that makes it work better. So, what you want to do is find out what's that cofactor that you want to combine to ingredient A to get the maximum possible results from ingredient A. Well, as the studies went on, they found that what we want is phosphatidylserine or PS. So, when you combine phosphatidylserine with this very special proteoglycan, which is extracted from fish collagen, when you combine those two, the results go from good to great. You start as an example, proteoglycan alone, decent mobility results in about 30 days. Proteoglycan combined with phosphatidylserine, really significant results in 4 days. The majority of the people studied, not 100%, nothing's ever 100%. But the majority of the people studied significant results in only 4 days. That's astounding. I mean, that's amazing. So, this has got me pretty excited just because these results are so fast. And you know in our industry, what really helps is if people can say, 'I feel the difference.' And the faster you feel the difference, the more likely you are to call up your friend, your co-worker, your neighbor and say 'You know what? I really feel a difference with this stuff. In fact, I felt a difference with this in just a few days.' So, that makes it an even better product. Now, of course, from as a health care practitioner, I'm very, very concerned about how does it function, how does it perform to help people with their health. And this clearly does. But on the other side of that, on the business side of that, feel-good products really help you build your business. There's no question about that. And there is there's no amount of literature, there's no amount of video that you can watch from some scientists like myself that will be as good as somebody calling up their friend and say 'You know what? 4 days, I felt terrific. You got to try this stuff. I don't know how it works. Who cares? It works.' So, that's what people will be saying when they use this product. Now, to be fair, they tested this product. They did the first test for results at 4 days and then at 7 days and then at 14 days and then again at 30 days. And they saw different results as they moved up the scale. But the result of having the majority of people feeling the difference in their joints in only four days, that's astounding. I mean, that's something I've never heard of before. Now, the Mannatech pulls in it because we know, you know, I've been working with Mannatech since 1995. I have so much confidence in that product because I've seen what it can do for all these years. If you want anything to work better, well, combine some Ambrotose or Mannatech with it. If you want anything to have the full potential to function the way it was designed to function, add Ambrotose or Mannatech to it. That's what I've seen repeatedly for all of these decades. It's amazing stuff. So, what a combination. By the way, this is patent pending. And of course exclusivity is something that for the business builders, they have to love that. You want exclusivity. You don't want to sell something that anyone else can sell. That's boring and that's not a good way to build a business. But exclusivity, science that nobody else has, yes. That's what you want. That's the story. That's the way to tell people what you have and it can be exciting for them, not just for me as a science guy. So, this is a great product like Lycan 4FX. It's just a super product for mobility. Realistically, people of probably over 40 are going to be saying this is my product because I needed help with my mobility. And of course, the older you go, the more people are going to say that, but I'm telling everyone, if you're smart, you should be doing this at a much younger age. Get a head start. It's going to be worth your while as you get older. It's hard to convince anybody of that if they're not older yet. But trust me on this. I'm an expert in this area, and of course I am unfortunately older. And I have felt the difference. I can tell you the difference that in my personal mobility that has changed from when I was 30, 40, and of course where I am now at in my early 70s. Heck, I was a US Marine. I was there wasn't pretty much anything I couldn't do physically. Not really the case anymore. Now I do need some mobility assistance, and this is a great product for that. I'm loving this product. I've been taking it myself. This has been tested as I say in the placebo-controlled human tests, two of them. We are very confident about how this product functions, and very confident about this combination of ingredients with this special exclusive proteoglycan, and phosphatidylserine, and magnapole, all combined. So, this is I don't know. I can't say enough positive about this. I love the science. I love the combination of ingredients. I love the function. I love the way it functions. And I love, especially for our business, that it's a feel-good product. You cannot go wrong with a feel-good product. Anybody who says, 'Oh, well, I have trouble I've been talking to my friend or my neighbor, and they don't want to listen to me, and how about if you just say, "You know what? I know that you've been having some mobility issues. Here, here's a bottle of this great product from Mannatech. Give it a try. In fact, give me a call in 4 or 5 days, and let me know how you feel." Are you talking about an easy sell? Oh my gosh, it is so easy. And I'm looking forward to this for all of our Mannatech associates, not just for all the people that I want to see improve their health because they've improved their mobility.

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Nugent, S. (2026, July 1). Glycan 4Fx Dr Steve Nugent [Interview transcript]. TheGlycans. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1058918/

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Steve Nugent. "Glycan 4Fx Dr Steve Nugent." TheGlycans, 1 Jul. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1058918/.

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  title        = {Glycan 4Fx Dr Steve Nugent},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, TheGlycans. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {jul},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1058918/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
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