andy Wrote:Good stuff, MLCM.
Are you still taking Glucosamine? I've started taking a Glucosamine and Chondroitin supplement. Not quite sure why though.
Yep, sure am. But what I have discovered over the last couple of years is that not all glucosamines are alike. There's glucosamine sulfate (cheaper) and glucosamine hydrochloride (more expensive) and then glucosamine in combination with other things, such as the chondroitin you mentioned, which is probably the flavour of the month.
What I found works for me is a glucosamine hydrochloride/boswellia combo recommended by a naturopath I consulted (boswellia being some herb or other). I religiously take 1500 mg/day (half morning, half evening), and my cartilage has recovered wonderfully over the last year or so. All that nasty, scarey crinkling noise that it made after a run has gone. I still have a deep, low grade pain in both knees from the bone degradation, but the cartilage is fine, and I get none of the debilitating pain that has stopped me running in the past. I can't give the glucosamine all the credit of course, but it's one of several important factors in my triumphant return to the world of running.
But the stuff works, yes.
If you don't have knee problems, then you may not need it, but at our age, a maintenance dose (500mg - 1000mg/day) seems to be recommended by those in the know.
And it's also cleared up the arthritis in my hands a treat.
Sound like a bloody cripple don't I?
March maundering.
