Cartilage is the shock absorber for where our bones meet each other at our joints. Over time our cartilage breaks down, so our bones become more susceptible to rubbing and bumping against each other. This in turn leads to sore and swollen joints along with stiffness. This usually comes with age and sometimes to younger athletes who put great demand on their bodies. Having done much karate training in younger days, I suffer from “creaky knee syndrome” myself. It must be the karate because at 46 years young, I’m far too youthful to have age related problems 
Urrrm . . . . no . . . . that’s not me.
The most successful nutrient for treating joints is glucosamine. It is derived from the shell of ocean shrimps and is the basic building block for the larger molecules in cartilage. Numerous studies demonstrate that glucosamine stimulates cartilage cells to produce protioglycans and collagen which helps to repair cartilage. This in turn soothes aching joints and helps to keep them strong. Who’d have that the the humble shrimp would save the world.
Many baby boomers, senior citizens and even athletes already regularly use glucosamine for joint relief, whilst a growing number use it as a prevention.
Knee joints are particularly vulnerable as the average able bodied person walks every day, even if they do not work out. The knee joint is actually a bad design that is load bearing and in constant use, no decent engineer would ever design a joint like it.
Apart from glucosamine, keeping the muscles strong around your joints can help too, as strong muscles stabilise the joint. However, you need to be careful what exercises you chose though. For example if you do squats with a weights to strength you thigh muscles, the extra weight can actually make your bones grind against each other more than normal. Get advise from a qualified trainer, preferably a more mature trainer as they may be better able to relate and have personal experience compared with a youngster straight out of college.
Nutronix provide an advanced glucosamine product called NuFlex, which combines glucosomine with 7 other nutrients to maximise easing and possibly recovery of aching joints. This includes MSM, boswellia extract, chondroitin sulfate, tumeric, quercetin and methionine. To find out more go to the main Nutronix website, click on “Products” near the top, then click on “Joint Health” in the left have column
Categories: Health
Tagged: arthritis, athletes, baby boomers, bowellia, cartilage, chondroitin, glucosamine, joint problems, joint relief, msm, osteoarthritis, painful joints, quercetin, stiff joint
A study has shown that Vitamin D significantly increases levels of intracellular glutathione. The hormone glutathione in turn helps to remove mercury from the body.
Furthermore, Vitamin D assists in inducing giloma cell death, which could makes it of possible use for the management of brain tumours. To elaborate on this point, when healthy cells divide one cell will mature and die, whilst the “daughter” cell will continue to grow maintaining a balance. Cancer cells do not mature like ordinary cells do, so whey they divide both resultant cells continue to grow and divide again (hence no cell death leading to tumour growth). At first glance, assisting cell death may not sound good, but in the context of cancer cells it is a very good thing.
A key principle of the Dr Clark anti cancer protocol is the removal of all heavy metals (especially mercury) from the body and has used Vitamin D for many years. Dr Budwig’s anti cancer diet, whilst emphasising on use of healthy oils to maintain cellular health is based on allowing the cancer cells to divide and fully mature so as to allow them to die naturally (whereas other cancer therapies are based on preventing cell division).
Vitamin D is not very readily available in out diet, with fish liver being the only significant source. The main source of Vitamin D is UV sun-light direct on our skin. It is ironic then that over the last couple of decades, too much sun-light has been associated with causing cancer and the suntan lotion industry has thrived. Being 46 myself, we hardly bothered with it as children, whereas parents today are very cautious with their children when the sun comes out. It has been suggested that the official guidlines on exposure to sun-light (and blocking it out with lotions) are almost certain to be revised as research into Vitamin D continues. In the meantime, I think the key word has to be the much used advice by wise people the World over and that is: “moderation”.
Incidentally both Dr Clark and Dr Budwig recommended getting as much sun-light as reasonably possible (obviously without burning yourself).
Other research into Vitamin D has found that it can prevent or treat infections & inflammation, depression & neurological disorders, colds and flu, diabetes, osteoporosis, tuberculosis and much more.
Categories: Cancer · Health
Tagged: Cancer, Dr budwig, dr clark, Health, sunlight, treating tumour, tumour, vitamin d
