Now Glucosamine Offers Way To Repair Your Joints

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Pharmeceutical-Medical )



For a long time, arthritis sufferers could not do much about their condition except take drugs that tended to relieve the pain. Now glucosamine seeks to provide treatment alternatives that help ease the pain of osteoarthritis and rehabilitate cartilage, including the joints that have suffered damage from osteoarthritis.

Your body naturally produces glucosamine, a kind of sugar which it uses in forming the cartilage that cushions bone-to-bone impact around your joints. However, your body gradually loses the capability to produce enough of this substance as you grow older. As a consequence the cartilage in your bones, especially along the load-bearing joints, is destroyed; your bone hardens and develops spurs, causing pain. This is osteoarthritis.

You could take medication to ease the pain, but unless you find a way to repair cartilage the osteoarthritis becomes a permanent condition. Now glucosamine offers a way to rebuild the cartilage. You can take glucosamine supplements, in the form of either glucosamine tablets or glucosamine liquid. These glucosamine supplements contain the sugar as a compound, glucosamine sulphate or glucosamine HCL, which the body synthesizes for its use.

Glucosamine is processed from the chitin in the external skeleton of shellfish (like shrimp and crabs). When glucosamine supplements first entered the market, they came in the form of glucosamine tablets. Glucosamine is also produced as glucosamine liquid. There is now some debate as to which form delivers the proper amounts of glucosamine needed by your body.

If you wish to try Now glucosamine, you should have your doctor determine precisely if the pain in your joints is due to osteoarthritis. You would be wasting your money on otherwise unnecessary treatments for a condition you are not suffering. Once that is ascertained, you should check for possible allergies.

Do not forget to get specific instructions about the dosage. Overdosing can cause diarrhea or nausea, and soft stools.


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