If you are looking for something to help knee arthritis, consider taking 6 - 12 mg of boron a day. I have previously posted the studies on this within the thread entitled “Nothing Boring About Boron.” A study showed that among severe osteoarthritis sufferers, most had all stiffness removed and 75% dropped all pain medicines, by the two month point. The specific form was calcium fructoborate, but other forms should work.
What about PRP injections
I’ll look into boron, my sacroiliac joint is arthritic from an injury when a drunk driver ran over me while on my motorcycle. Open book pelvic fracture.
What about oral chondroitin sulfate for arthritis? My professor from graduate school said it was helpful for animals with arthritis. At the vet school the doctors used Cosequin, but that was years ago:
At age 77 I had sprained by knee badly by twisting it while walking on a sandy beach.
The knee was hugely swollen and painful. Doctor sent me for x-rays and then told me I had bone rubbing on bone in knee.
After steroid shots and rest my pain was gone along with most of the swelling. I decided against knee replacement after talking to cousin who had both knees replaced.
Now 5 years later I have no issues in the knee. All I did was mild treadmill 5 times every week. Not only my knees got better, my body got stronger with better balance and much more stamina, enough to mow lawn during hot summers in Florida with a push mower. Exercise is the best healer.
I don’t know about injections, but I recall a study done on Japanese people whose diet was high in Hyaluronic acid - I think it largely came from some kind of yam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzurihara
(It’s pretty good as a topical skin treatment, too.)
I take boron every day and it doesn’t do anything for my knee pain. Not that I’m doubting that it helps some people. It’s the likely reason that is more of a concern. (Men should take it anyway just for prostate cancer prevention.)
Boron’s method of action regarding hormones is not fully understood AFIAK, but boron appears to raise sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) levels, changing the levels of free floating hormones in your blood. I’m betting this is one of the reasons people are seeing a change in knee pain.
The moral of the story is everyone get your hormone levels checked and manage them yourselves because 90% of doctors are retarded on the subject.
As to HYA and knees...I have no experience with the injections, but I do have experience taking high doses orally, which DID seem to help as part of a whole protocol to decrease pain in my decrepit, cracking, aging gym rat knees. That’s my clinical study of one guy...make of it what you will. It’s kickass for your skin too. How can billions of Asian women possibly be wrong? :-)
Ozone injections (Prolozone) are what I suggest looking into.
As far as supplements, getting your NAD+ levels up does a lot. Supplementing collagen is helpful.
If you’re a male on hormone replacement, ask your doctor about adding low dose Nandrolone to your protocol, as it helps quite a bit with collagen synthesis and joint pain.
I do all of those things and my knees no longer make popcorn when I climb the stairs and no longer feel like they might give way going down them. A win as far as I’m concerned.
I was scheduled for a knee replacement and gave hyaluronic acid a try. After the first injection I stopped taking pain killers and NSAIDs. Three years later and without another hyaluronic acid injection, I’m still pain free and still walking on the factory original knee.
I’m getting a second opinion on the treatment of knee osteoarthritis now that I’ve moved to a new town, I need a new doctor. I had the hyaluronic acid shot two years in a row. It’s been more helpful moving into a senior living center, using a mobility scooter, walking the small distances in an apartment area instead of my previous house, with a staff PCP doctor monitoring my pain meds.
“,,,but do it because it’s good for them”
And “them” would be the Dr.
Thanks for the joint pain info.