A two-year study of how well glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate slows cartilage loss in patients with arthritis could not show that the popular nutritional supplements worked any better than sugar pills. Geez, I hope Bob Wilson doesn’t read this post cause he swears by the stuff!
“We don’t have good evidence that it slows (disease) progression,” says rheumatologist Allen Sawitzke, professor of internal medicine at the University of Utah and lead investigator.
Glucosamine & Chondroitin
The combination glucosamine chondroitin is very popular amongst bodybuilders and competitive powerlifters and is the sixth-top-selling supplement in the US, with annual sales of $831 million in 2007. This study is a follow-up to a 2006 study that looked at whether the supplements did a better job than sugar pills or the arthritis pain medication Celebrex in diminishing pain in patients with osteoarthritis. Researchers continued to give patients the supplements, sugar pills or Celebrex, and measured whether the space between their knee joints decreased (a measure of whether the cartilage was breaking down). The two-year study didn’t show that anything worked better than the placebo to slow the progress of the disease.
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin Ineffective?
Started By Rider, Jun 26 2010 07:32 AM
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Posted 26 June 2010 - 05:12 PM
Honestly, I could never tell if it was helping me or not...I took it for almost a year and then gave up on it..I started to feel like it was a waste,,but I have friends that swear by it as well...PH
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Posted 26 June 2010 - 08:06 PM
QUOTE(Purplehaze @ Jun 26 2010, 05:12 AM) 
Honestly, I could never tell if it was helping me or not...I took it for almost a year and then gave up on it..I started to feel like it was a waste,,but I have friends that swear by it as well...PH
Yeah, I hear you! I used it but I don't think it did anything for me other then make my wallet lighter, lol!
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Posted 08 July 2010 - 03:36 AM
I take it from time to time with the hopes that it is giving me the nutrients I need to maintain what little I have. I did like the Knox gelatin though. It is cheap, but the draw back for me is it took 2 months to notice anything and it was powder and it had to be mixed. I get really tired of powder mixes so I never keep it up.
Alfutop did work well for me though.
Alfutop did work well for me though.
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 01:08 AM
Glucosamine never did seem to do anything at all for me, same with MSM, but chondroitin seems to help, if marginally.
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