Natural help for pain & stiffness

Last week I wrote about magnesium and how important it is for healthy muscles. This week I am moving onto the joints and I am going to have a look at some of the best natural anti inflammatories available. There are many people who are looking for a natural anti inflammatory, often because they are unable to take doctors anti inflammatories as they upset their stomachs. These days there are actually quite a few products available on the market which are aimed at helping to reduce the pain and discomfort associated with joint problems. One of my very favourites is a product called Celadrin. I have written about Celadrin in this column a few times now, because it is a product which we have seen quite a lot of great results with. Celadrin is a natural oil based product, which is said to have a number of benefits for the joints. Firstly because it is oil based, it has a great lubricating effect, which could help to improve mobility and movement in the joint and reduce all the crunching and clicking that a lot of people with problems like arthritis notice. Secondly celadrin has been reported as have 3 different anti inflammatory actions on the joint tissue, to help reduce pain, inflammation and stiffness. Finally, celadrin apparently may also help to make products reported to have a joint reparative action, such as glucosamine, more effective, by helping them get into the joint more effectively. We have quite a number of people who swear that Celadrin has made them more mobile and reduced their pain significantly. One lady told me only last week that she was convinced that it was celadrin which had reduced the pain and stiffness in her knees and improved her mobility. She said that since she had started taking the product three weeks ago she had noticed great improvements and as she had not changed any thing else she didn't see what else it could have been that had helped her. Another gentleman tells us that before he started using celadrin every day he used a stick for walking all the time and that now, for short distances he does not feel that the stick is as necessary! Yet another customer tells us that she is convinced that it is the celadrin which had given her back the mobility in her hands. Before she started on the celadrin, she had lost the ability to grip anything properly and her hands were always painful, now she tells us that her hands work properly again and are pain free, for the first time in years! There are as always different types of celadrin available on the market and in our experience, some products which are significantly better than others. If you want to try some celadrin for yourself I would suggest making sure that you buy a capsule which contains celadrin in it's liquid form. There are quite a lot of products available which contain instead the powder form of celadrin, but we have found that the people who try the liquid filled capsules tend to come back with more positive reports. Indeed I had one lady who switched to the powder filled capsules because they were cheaper, but came back a month later to switch back to the solgar liquid filled capsules as she had found them to be much better for her. Next week more natural anti inflammatories. For more details or to order please see our website at: www.helpmebehealthy.co.uk

Complete support for healthy joints

When the weather is cold as it has been recently, joints can start to seize up and ache. Knees and hips can become painful and many people come in to see us to see if there is anything they can try to help improve their joint health and reduce their stiffness. Last year we were introduced to a new product, based on some of our favourite joint remedies, made by a company called Lamberts the product is Glucosamine Complete. Now before you switch off, thinking that I am just writing about glucosamine again - please bear with me! This is actually quite a different kettle of fish to most of the other things on the market! How different can it be, I hear you ask, it's just Glucosamine! Well no! Let me explain. Many products out there combine glucosamine with other ingredients for joint health, but when you look at them they contain very little of the important ingredients. Others which contain decent amounts are horribly expensive. Glucosamine Complete manages to provide decent levels of the important ingredients at a pretty reasonable price. For example, if you take the suggested dose you will get 1500mg of glucosamine plus 300mg chondroitin (many combination products only have 100mg or less of this) plus MSM, another important component in joint health. On top of this the Glucosamine Complete also provides good doses of Quercertin, Ginger and Rosehip. It is the addition of these ingredients in meaningful amounts which really makes the difference to this product in my opinion. Quercertin is a brilliant, natural anti inflammatory, we have used it for years, in fact years and years ago, quercertin was responsible for a dog getting his mobility back and continuing an active life for several years more than expected. Ginger is also a well known natural anti inflammatory, but ginger is also said to help boost the circulation, which improves the flow of nutrients to the affected joint. Finally Rosehip has been used quite successfully for the last few years on its own to help reduce pain and stiffness, so mixing it with other natural joint ingredients seems a great idea. We have had some fantastic reports on this product. Several people have told us that they have seen improvements in the mobility and reductions in their joint pain within the first bottle! One lady came in for the first time asking what she could take for her painful knees. We suggested that she try the Glucosamine Complete, which she did. When she came back at the end of her first bottle she told us that she had noticed improvements in her pain and stiffness within weeks of starting to take it! I have also been using this product myself recently. I injured my foot a few months ago and it became very stiff and painful. No one seemed to be able to tell me what was wrong with it so I decided to try and do something about it myself and thought I would try the Glucosamine Complete for myself. I have to say that I was very happy with the results. As a woman who likes to wear a heel, I was most upset when my painful foot meant that the only shoes I was comfortable in we're my scruffy flat boots! The good news was that after a month on the Glucosamine Complete I was back in my normal shoes in comfort again. I have now got my mum trying it for her bad back - I hope she gets as good a result as I have! To order the Glucosamine Complete for only £9.99 with free p&p, call: 01524 413733 and say you saw it on the blog.