Hey I was on line looking up information on mulivitimans and Gluclosamine and Chondroitin and you know what I found? Much to my suprise I found countless articles that talked about several studies done on both by the FDA and major universities that say nither of the have any positive affects over a pacebo..... Non at all. As a matter of fact there has never been an independent double blind study to show the either of them create any benificial effects on humans!!... WFT??? Kinda confused right now I guess I just always believed the marketing I have heard my whole life. What do you think?
Mulitvitimans.... Gluclosamine and Chondroitin???
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Well I can tell you from experience that anyone that is into lifting will do their bodies (joints) some good by taking Glucosamine Chondroitin. I had a major wrist surgery a few years ago and last year I started having big time pain in that same wrist. The surgeon told me to start taking Glucosamine Chondroitin. Within a couple weeks of taking it, the pain subsided. I can stop taking it and usually no more then a week later the pain comes back. I've also suffered a broken back and taking that stuff has greatly helped with that as well.
I don't need to read any damn studies on that stuff. I'm a convinced user and that's all that matters to me!
I don't need to read any damn studies on that stuff. I'm a convinced user and that's all that matters to me!
The National Institutes of Health in the U.S.A. to fund a large, multicenter clinical trial (the GAIT trial) studying reported pain in osteoarthritis of the knee, comparing groups treated with chondroitin sulfate, glucosamine, and the combination, as well as both placebo and celecoxib.[23] The results of this 6-month trial were published in 2006, and the publication explained that patients taking glucosamine HCl, chondroitin sulfate, or a combination of the two had no statistically significant improvement in their symptoms compared to patients taking a placebo.[24] The group of patients who took celecoxib did have a statistically significant improvement in their symptoms. These results suggest that glucosamine and chondroitin did not effectively relieve pain in the overall group of osteoarthritis patients, but it should be interpreted with caution because most patients presented only mild pain (thus a narrow margin to appraise pain improvement) and because of an unusual response to placebo in the trial (60%). However, exploratory analysis of a subgroup of patients suggested that the supplements taken together (glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate) may be significantly more effective than placebo (79.2% versus 54%; p = 0.002) and a 10% higher than the positive control, in patients with pain classified as moderate to severe (see testing hypotheses suggested by the data).
