Nourish your joints daily SUPPLEMENTING DEPLETING MICRONUTRIENTS

JOINT health and flexibility greatly impacts the quality of our life. It is imperative in allowing us to be mobile and flexible so we are able to do our chores and function with ease. However, joint pain is increasingly common, especially with people engaged in sporting activities, the middle-aged (aged 55 years and over) and even younger ones in their 30s and 40s.

There are many factors that contribute to joint ailments like osteoarthritis. These include intensive sports or exercise, occupations that require repetitive use of joints, previous injuries, obesity and heredity.

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease caused by wear and tear of the cartilage. It commonly affects joints that bear most of the body’s weight such as the knees, hips and spine. Clinical symptoms of early osteoarthritis are joint pain, tenderness, stiffness, creaking sounds during movement, inflammation and locking of joints. An important micronutrient that is present in our body, which helps build joint cartilage and is responsible for lubrication of joints is glucosamine sulfate. With age and excessive use of joints, (especially those engaged in hectic and sporty lifestyles), glucosamine sulfate in our body naturally depletes. It is important for the joints to get this important micronutrient daily to build our joints, enable smoother function of our joints and maintain healthy joints.

Although supplementation of glucosamine sulfate is well practised by millions of middle-aged adults and clinically proven that our body needs 1,500mg of glucosamine on a daily basis – if taken in a single dose of 1,500mg daily, the therapeutic benefits are said to benefit joint health.

However, a large number of people on glucosamine sulfate do not see the desired benefits because they only consume sub- optimal doses. It is also possible that they do not take it consistently for at least six weeks, which does not support the required nourishment and buildup of joints on a daily basis.

A single dose of 1,500mg glucosamine sulfate helps to counter the wear and tear of joints that takes place inside our bodies, given our daily hectic lifestyles. Daily intake of glucosamine sulfate (single 1,500mg dose) facilitates cartilage protection , lubricates and nourishes collagen.