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Publish or perish.
I use about 1/2 the suggested amount and it really makes a difference.
Always curious about the funding of this type of research. Seems like a pretty random study - OR maybe a drug manufacturer designed a study to scare seniors out of using a more natural treatment. That said, moderation with supplements is probably a good rule to follow.
I take a couple a day since MERSA ate up my wrist. Makes all the difference in the world. What I can’t figure out is this: Those are BIG pills, shoving 10 to 20 of those babies down a mouse would seem to be a bit extreme and I would think would cause more problems than reported!
oh crap
bttt
“In our experiments, we used doses five to ten times higher than that recommended by most manufacturers, or 1,500 mg/day.”
A poorly composed sentence.
Please note that 1,500 mg/day *is* the recommended dose, not 5 to 10 times the recommended dose, which would be 7,500 or 15,000 mg/day.
A “double-strength” glucosamine tablet has 500 mg. The recommended dose of 3 tablets a day is for *prevention* of joint problems. For *active* joint problems, a typical dose is 4 tablets a day, in two doses, for a total of 2,000 mg/day.
So for a human to get a dosage equivalent of causing harm “in vitro”, which means directly applied to cells, *not* yet shown to happen in even animal testing, would be to swallow between 15 and 30 of these pills a day.
That’s a lot of pills.
sfl
Not too sure about humans, but works great in aged dogs.
“The key point of our work is that glucosamine can have effects that are far from harmless and should be used with great caution,” concluded Professor Picard. “
ANY supplement can have effects that are far from harmless and should be used with great caution. My husband has very bad knees and is stalling his inevitable knee replacement surgery with glucosamine use, recommended by our doctor. Works wonders for him.
Would like to see more studies.
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OMG we are all going to die....I have taken 1000 mg a day for over 10 years and so has my dog....getting sick and tired of all the warning we are subject to.....
I tried it — it made my joints ache. So I stopped using it. Colloidal minerals has worked for my joint pain in the past. Then the pain goes away, I stop taking a capful every morning, and...