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Originally posted by Flashlightboy:
Let me weigh in before the, "It work fors me!" crowd drowns the conversation.

I've deposed many orthopedic doctors a great number of which are the team phyicians for pro sport teams, local competitve colleges and in some cases, former pro sports players. This is their unamimous opinion - It doesn't work on people but has a great placebo affect. If you think you feel better then by all means continue to take it but don't waste your money on name brands but go to Costco or Walmart instead.

The doctors all say that they're in charge of joint health for sports teams and if all it took was daily uses of pills to keep the joints healthy that's what they'd prescibe or recommend but it's not a viable treatment with proven results beyond placebo.

The ingrediants are the right stuff but by the time it's absorbed into your system and the body starts circulating the goodies, there's no possible way for this stuff to target specific joints or even if it could, do so to a prevantative or curative level. The science simply doens't support the hype.

One doctor was a little kinder and said that if there's a benefit science hasn't found a way to measure it yet.