Posted by BekkaH on November 28, 2002, at 17:46:36
In reply to Re: More glucosamine chondroitin questions » BekkaH, posted by IsoM on November 28, 2002, at 0:25:42
> Something few people also know about is that both glucosamine & chondroitin aren't absorbed into the blood stream. Both are very large molecules & are digested into their component parts. Yes, they are the building blocks of cartilage & are probably beneficial that way, but they don't pass unchanged into our blood & then into new cartilage for us.
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> It's like a diabetic needs to inject insulin & cannot take it in pill form. It would only be digested & unable to enter the blood, so to get directly into the blood system, it must be injected.
***********************************************Hmm. . .Very interesting. I've heard that a number of supplements contain molecules that are too large to be absorbed. Just last week, a physician told me that she had participated in some research on lecithin and that it, too, was not well absorbed. Although lecithin is not as expensive as some of the other supplements, I would hate to think that it has been a waste. I have been taking it for a while.
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