Articles
Understanding Your Joints
Six pieces on how joints actually work and what goes wrong in them — the background that makes it much easier to judge whether any given supplement is worth your money.
Anatomy
6 min read
What Is Actually Happening Inside an Arthritic Joint
Cartilage, synovium, bone and muscle all change in osteoarthritis. Knowing which is which explains what can and cannot be treated.
Symptoms
5 min read
Why Joints Are Stiffest in the Morning — and What the Timing Tells You
How long the stiffness lasts is one of the most useful pieces of diagnostic information you can give a doctor.
Anatomy
6 min read
Knees, Hips and Hands Are Not the Same Problem
Joint supplements are marketed at joint pain generally. The three commonest sites behave differently and respond to different things.
Mechanics
5 min read
How Much Load Actually Goes Through Your Knee
The multiplication factor between body weight and joint force explains why modest weight change makes a disproportionate difference.
Treatment
6 min read
Strength Training for Painful Joints: Why It Feels Wrong and Works Anyway
The instinct is to rest a painful joint. For osteoarthritis that instinct makes things worse.
Symptoms
5 min read
Sleep and Joint Pain Make Each Other Worse
Poor sleep lowers pain thresholds and pain disrupts sleep. Breaking into that loop is more useful than most people expect.
If you have decided to try it
Pricing, and What to Settle First
Exercise, weight and a proper diagnosis come before any capsule. If those are already in hand and you want to try this as an addition, the pricing page carries the current totals, the figures that conflict, and the interactions to check.
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