Glucosamine and Chondroitin for Knee Arthritis Pain Relief Miracle Cures or Waste of Your Hard-Earned Money?

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By Dr. Paul Anderson, M.D.
Sports Medicine Expert

If you search the internet, you'll find websites claiming Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulphate are excellent for knee arthritis pain relief while others say these joint nutrients don't work and are not worth even taking.

Only 1 in 10 Get Knee Arthritis Pain Relief

The problem is people and so-called experts are mixing up the facts and jumping to wrong conclusions. The truth is that only about 1 in10 people have a powerful anti-inflammatory and knee pain relief response to joint nutrients Glucosamine and Chondroitin.

In fact, most of arthritis sufferers have only a minimal anti-inflammatory pain relief effect to these nutrients. That explains why many of you may have tried Glucosamine and Chondroitin with minimal or no success for your knee arthritis pain and why the studies vary so widely in results. To better understand why glucosamine and chondroitin are essential to joint health let's discuss...

What is Arthritis?

Cartilage is a slippery substance like Teflon that coats your knee bones allowing them to slide across each other without friction. Your knee is full of joint fluid - a thick lubricating gel.

Once you damage your knee cartilage, it causes inflammation and swelling that fires your pain nerves. Damaged cartilage creates a rough surface over which your bones no longer slide smoothly. Instead, your knee bones catch on the jagged edges, grinding off more and more cartilage.

Damaged cartilage is like having sandpaper on the ends of your knee bones, rubbing together, constantly wearing away your joint - day after day, year after year - until there is little or no cartilage left. As you grind the cartilage off, it exposes the pain nerve endings hidden below in the bones. This sets-up a constant, never-ending inflammation pain cycle. Often, you have hidden triggers that worsen this inflammation pain cycle.

All arthritis knee pain ultimately is caused by cartilage damage with inflammation and swelling which fires your pain nerves. In some severe cases, you may also lose the natural painkillers produced in your brain and spine making your pain even worse.

Glucosamine and Chondroitin Re-Grow Cartilage - Critical for Joint Health

Glucosamine and Chondroitin are the basic building blocks of cartilage and are critically important for healthy youthful joints.

These essential healthy-joint nutrients actually maintain, re-grow and thicken your knee cartilage. This re-growth effect can take up to one or two years and continues over the years. Glucosamine and Chondroitin ( along with cartilage type 2, Hyaluronic acid and MSM) keep your knee cartilage healthy and youthful.

My Personal and Professional Experience - Excellent Arthritis Relief Results!

I’ve been using and offering Glucosamine and Chondroitin supplements to my patients for several years. Only recently I’ve achieved reliable, successful knee arthritis pain relief when combining them with other natural anti-inflammatories and healthy-joint nutrients.

In my experience, Glucosamine and Chondroitin do indeed protect, strengthen and re-grow a little healthy cartilage - but they are only mild anti-inflammatories.

I found for maximum knee arthritis pain relief, anti-inflammatory and cartilage re-growth, the best joint formulas combine the cartilage-strengthening properties of Glucosamine and Chondroitin along with other natural anti-inflammatories and healthy-joint nutrients.

Miracle Cure or Waste Money?

Are Glucosamine and Chondroitin by themselves a miracle cure for most arthritis sufferers? Yes - but only when combined with other natural anti-inflammatories and healthy joint nutrients.

Are Glucosamine and Chondroitin a waste of money?

NO! If you want healthy youthful knee joints and cartilage while protecting yourself from knee arthritis as long as possible, these nutrients need to be in your diet.

How Much Should I take?

As a rough guide an adult should take 1500 mg of Glucosamine and 1200 mg of Chondroitin daily with a meal along with other joint nutrients.

I'm Allergic to Shellfish?

Most Glucosamine Sulphate is from shellfish. There are corn based Glucosamine HCL formulas. My reaserch team has never found any difference in results between Glucosamine Sulphate and HCL.

Always check with your Doctor before making any changes in your diet, supplements, medications or exercise program.

 
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