Joint care supplements

[obob]

My joints in my left hand crack when I stretch out my fingers, they now get a little stiff up until I crack them to 'free' them up. And are also slightly painful, I'm only in my early 20s. I have been looking around and there are lots of suplements you can get to help rebuild cartiledge/reduce swelling etc.

Does anybody use anything like this? Any recommendations? I was looking at Vitabiotics Jointace but there are lots of different versions!!

[didelydoo]

Cod liver oil/fish oils or similar stop me from creaking

[NotConfused]

id like to know this too, im early 20's and my kneecaps already feeling like they are giving in. I sit at a desk for 7.5 hours a day.

[Halb]

I use the seven seas lot, I alternate between the max three products, as well as a flax one as well

[Back to the top]

Try www.Healthspan.co.uk
Go for optiflex glucosamine 750 mg 2 a day , 6 months worth for £13 last time i looked - cheaper than getting the same stuff prescribed !

[anonymous-user]

Back to the top said:

Try www.Healthspan.co.uk
Go for optiflex glucosamine 750 mg 2 a day , 6 months worth for £13 last time i looked - cheaper than getting the same stuff prescribed !

Make sure you get glucosamine with chondroitin or take chondroitin as a further supplement. It's a perfect partner for glucosamine and helps the development of healthy cartilage.

[anonymous-user]

garyhun said:

Make sure you get glucosamine with chondroitin or take chondroitin as a further supplement. It's a perfect partner for glucosamine and helps the development of healthy cartilage.

Also don't buy cheap crap.

[AT]

garyhun said:

garyhun said:

Make sure you get glucosamine with chondroitin or take chondroitin as a further supplement. It's a perfect partner for glucosamine and helps the development of healthy cartilage.

Also don't buy cheap crap.

I always buy expensive crap only

[anonymous-user]

AT said:

I always buy expensive crap only

Yep - it's the only way to go

[The_Doc]

garyhun said:

Make sure you get glucosamine with chondroitin or take chondroitin as a further supplement. It's a perfect partner for glucosamine and helps the development of healthy cartilage.

Care to back that up with some proof....

Are there any studies showing Hyaline cartilage regrows with Gluc+Chond ?

[anonymous-user]

The_Doc said:

Care to back that up with some proof....

Of course not, I'm just a sufferer of gout and bad knees who finds them beneficial to me.

[Fume troll]

The_Doc said:

Care to back that up with some proof....

Are there any studies showing Hyaline cartilage regrows with Gluc+Chond ?

No. Most of the studies done however focussed on treating osteoarthritis, so perhaps they have benefits in other conditions. And perhaps they don't... certainly there's no good evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucosamine#Clinical_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondroitin_sulfate#C...
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-o... (large bubble [hype] near the bottom [appears ineffective])

Cheers,

FT.

[alfa phil]

I use Boots own high strength Glucosamine sulphate 1500mg + Chondroitin sulphate 1200mg , all come together in one box ,take one each a day. not cheap around £25 a box lasts a month, but i find them very good, used to suffer a bit with the joints and the running i do , but they all seem great now.

[E21_Ross]

The_Doc said:

garyhun said:

Make sure you get glucosamine with chondroitin or take chondroitin as a further supplement. It's a perfect partner for glucosamine and helps the development of healthy cartilage.

Care to back that up with some proof....

Are there any studies showing Hyaline cartilage regrows with Gluc+Chond ?

i'm with the doc on this one. there has been very, very little (if any) good, solid evidence on glucosamine and chondroitin. that's not to say it's not beneficial, that's to say it's not proven its worth yet.

you have to think, of that tiny, tiny amount you take, how much of that gets into your stomach, into your blood stream, to the arteries near joints and then passively diffuse into the cartilage of the joints of which you are suffering pain (cartilage is basically avascular....it doesn't have a blood supply and relies on getting nutrients effectively by a pumping action (i'm simplifying a little here).

there is no way it would help for gout, the mechanism of gout formation doesn't fit. in theory, you'd be far less likely to get flare ups if you drink less alcohol, eat well, and get those joints far away from the centre of your body warm (monosodium urate crystals become less soluble in the cold and form crystals in joints, hence the big toe is effected most as it's a "cold" joint).

Ross.

[anonymous-user]

Sorry Ross - I was not suggesting it works for gout, I have allopurinol for that as my urate levels are naturally high. But my knees have definitely been better since taking the cod liver and glucosamine and chondroitin - whether it's just the cod liver, who knows.

[Halb]

I take seven seas, with a flax one. I don't have pain in my knees but when I squat down my right knee usually has a big crack. I don't like the sound of it.

[The_Doc]

alfa phil said:

I use Boots own high strength Glucosamine sulphate 1500mg + Chondroitin sulphate 1200mg , all come together in one box ,take one each a day. not cheap around £25 a box lasts a month, but i find them very good, used to suffer a bit with the joints and the running i do , but they all seem great now.

and you know what, I can't argue with that

[E21_Ross]

The_Doc said:

alfa phil said:

I use Boots own high strength Glucosamine sulphate 1500mg + Chondroitin sulphate 1200mg , all come together in one box ,take one each a day. not cheap around £25 a box lasts a month, but i find them very good, used to suffer a bit with the joints and the running i do , but they all seem great now.

and you know what, I can't argue with that

placebo? nah, it's a fair point. there certainly needs to be a lot more research in the area.