Chondroitin (Was: RE: [at-l] new to the list and a bad knee)

["Amy Friends" <coelura@hotmail.com>]

>does that stuff work???

Not short term.  It's not like aspirin or anything - you generally have to 
take it for a few months before you notice any improvement.

Do remember me at the Ruck, not last year but the year before?  I could 
barely walk the 6 miles of our hike and I had no pack on.  Now (at least, 
before I hurt my back) I'm able to run 15 miles, and I did that 20-mile 2 
day hike with Woodelf... I believe it's at least partly attributable to the 
glucosamine sulfate I took (often sold as a combo pill of the sulfate and 
chondroitin, but some sources say the chondroitin molecule is too big to 
really be absorbed by the body, so I paid my money the single component).

Some people say it's a placebo effect, but the stuff was developed for 
animals who have no expectations of it.  My mother's dog took it for some 
time for arthritis.

Sandpiper

--
Where you've been is dead and gone
all you keep's the getting there.
To live is to fly low and high
so shake the dust off of your wings
and the sleep out of your eyes...
Townes VanZandt


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