What do you think about Glucosamine Chondroitin with MSM?!
Question:
What do you think about Glucosamine Chondroitin with MSM?
Do you think it works? What has been your experience?
Answers:
I take them every day, with breakfast and dinner, and feel that they have improved my arthritis.
The medical studies have been back and forth on this. Studies found either improvement, or minimal benefits, but certainly no harm was ever found.
A large good quality study - randomized, blinded, placebo controlled - however said they made no difference compared with placebo. But if you look closer, it didn't seem to make a difference in cases of mild-moderate arthritis, but those with severe arthritis found benefits.
When you know that placebos alone generally get about a 30% response rate, then it gets clearer. The data couldn't overcome the placebo effect in mild-moderate arthritis.
Bottom line, many studies show improvements on glucosamine/chondroitin/MSM, and no problems. (Though people with shellfish allergies shouldn't take glucosamine, since this is the source of it.)