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Old 15-01-2008, 04:14 PM
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Re: Glucosamine....Anybody else using it?

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Originally Posted by KIDSTYPIKE View Post
After my recent problems I have started to use glucosamine on a regular basis. After speaking to a local herbalist he advised that for the first month I should take 3 x 1000mg tablets per day to "build up levels", and then to drop the dosage to 1 x 1000mg per day.
I was wondering if anybody else was taking Glucosamine and what their thoughts on the dosage were.
I've only been taking them for a week or so, so it's too early to say if they are doing any good just yet.
Dave
I was recommended a similar regime and followed it to the letter,again my surgeons comment was that it "could do no harm "
I tend to stick with fish oils and folic acid, as my father suffers from
osteoporosis,with vitamin'C'+zinc when my workmates start coughing and
sneezing
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