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  • Hey, guys. Dr. Axe here, founder of draxe.com and doctor of natural medicine. In this video,

  • I'm going to share with you how to use glucosamine, the many benefits, the dosage, and also give

  • you some surprising facts, because a lot of people are not using glucosamine like they

  • should. Also, there is an incredible superfood that most people have no idea that it's packed

  • with glucosamine and it's an effective way to get glucosamine in your diet for a fraction

  • of the cost that you can get it in normal supplements today.

  • Now first off, glucosamine is part of a family called glycosaminoglycans, and glucosamine

  • is so beneficial for supporting the health of many different areas of your body, whether

  • it be your joints, your bones, your cartilage. It really helps in healing these areas, even

  • your digestive track. And I want to start off talking about really how it benefits your

  • joints. If you have any joint problem such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, joint

  • pain, pulled tendons and ligaments and muscles or torn rotator cuff, or any of those different

  • areas, glucosamine is a supplement you should be taking. And recent medical research shows

  • that glucosamine works by increasing the fluid in the joint and helping actually also with

  • circulation.

  • So part of the healing process in inflammation is bringing new nutrients into an area, and

  • flushing toxins out of an area and really helping out with your intracellular and extracellular

  • fluid. Well, glucosamine helps with those things, and so if you have an injury and you

  • want to heal it more quickly, glucosamine helps with joint repair. So any joint issue

  • you have, glucosamine is an absolute must in your diet because it also helps with your

  • synovial fluid which is so important especially for knee injuries as well as shoulder injuries.

  • You've got to be taking glucosamine for those reasons.

  • Also, glucosamine is incredible for the health of your digestive track. If you're suffering

  • with an issue such as leaky gut syndrome, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, IBS syndrome,

  • or any type of inflammatory bowel or digestive issue, glucosamine helps with tissue repair.

  • So again, if you have damaged tissues like it happens so often with leaky gut, glucosamine

  • is one of those things along with L-glutamine and proline which helps heal your damaged

  • gut lining.

  • And here's a really unique thing about glucosamine. It actually sends signals to your body to

  • bring in certain minerals and amino acids to start to repair the damaged areas. So it

  • actually helps with cellular communication. So glucosamine, if you've got any digestive

  • issue, it's something you absolutely want to be taking, and actually, a recent medical

  • study done about 10 years ago found that it actually helps in healing Crohn's disease

  • and ulcerative colitis. So we know glucosamine, very beneficial for the digestive system.

  • Also in recent medical studies, they found that glucosamine helps with bone repair. So

  • if you break a bone or have any bone or joint or ligament or tendon tear, so again, if you've

  • ever torn your ACL or you've broken a bone, whether it's you or someone else, you immediately

  • want to start taking glucosamine for that reason as well. And a really unique study

  • they found, and this leads to my step number four or number four benefit, they've also

  • found that glucosamine is very beneficial for TMJ, so that's pain of the joint of your

  • jaw. And so if you ever get pain while chewing or you get jaw clicking or any problem like

  • that, you want to be taking glucosamine.

  • And a recent medical study found, if you are supplementing with about 500 to 1,500 milligrams

  • of glucosamine a day, it was just as effective as taking a medication in NSAIDs such as aspirin

  • or ibuprofen and naturally relieving pain. So again, also it's great for TMJ and joint

  • pain relief. So whether your joint pain is from a condition such as fibromyalgia or injury

  • from a sporting event, or arthritis, no matter what your pain is from, or TMJ, we know glucosamine

  • is very effective. And now here's one of the biggest secrets I want to share with you.

  • You can buy glucosamine in a supplement form, and if you do so, you want to be taking about

  • 1,000 to 1,500 milligrams a day. But you can also get glucosamine in bone broth or bone

  • broth protein powder. So again, bone broth, and that's where you take the animal parts

  • such as chicken feet and you simmer them over time, that releases minerals as well amino

  • acids, as well as glucosamine into that liquid. So bone broth especially chicken bone broth

  • is loaded with glucosamine.

  • And so, rather than spending money on a pricey supplement, you can get all of this glucosamine

  • in the form of bone broth. And what I recommend my patients do, is get bone broth protein

  • powder. So you can go and buy bone broth protein powder, do a scoop of that in a smoothie,

  • and not only are you getting glucosamine to heal your body, you're also getting other

  • factors as well that really support the natural repair of the body.

  • So again, there's bone broth protein, there's collagen protein powder, it's also gray. But

  • again, bone broth protein is very high in all of these factors. So again, if you want

  • to heal your body fast, whether you've got pain, whether you're struggling with TMJ,

  • digestive issues, you need tissue or cartilage repair or arthritis, all of those issues taking

  • bone broth in liquid form, or taking a bone broth powder is a great way to start healing

  • fast.

  • And hey, if you want to learn more about how to overcome any of these issues I mentioned,

  • check out my website, draxe.com. And if you want to learn more natural remedies to heal

  • fast, make sure you subscribe here to my YouTube channel. Again, use glucosamine for all the

  • benefits and bone broth as well, I know you're going to reap the benefits for it.

Hey, guys. Dr. Axe here, founder of draxe.com and doctor of natural medicine. In this video,

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