Does anyone have any experience with Shark Cartillage? My wife was diagnosed with Degenerative Discs in the lumbar region and a herniated disc. Along with PT, nerve block, swimming, etc. she started taking Glucosamine and Chondroitin, and we were wondering if shark cartillage would have any benefits too?
Henk
I take this stuff called “MSM” that my massage therapist recommended. Seems to help. What the hell is it? Are there ground up sharks in there?
Yeah, I read the label (I’m not that stupid) is was rather cryptic.
Pure quackery. It’s been tested under clinical conditions and found to have no cancer fighting or other health benefits.
I love sharks, believe it or not. I dived with them. We’re killing them in ridiculous numbers for quack cures and other reasons. Please, let’s leave them alone.
Hey Henk! Good to hear from you…I moved further south last fall, BTW, in case you didn’t know.
Shark cartilage is VERY GOOD, for SHARKS. They need it badly.
I’m with cerveloguy on this one…MSM, Glucosamine Sulfate (supposedly much better than the Glucosamine HCL…which may have it’s good effects not due to he Glucosamine, but due to the sulfate…which is the “S” in MSM, I really don’t know), and Chondroitin, MAY offer some benefit. It probably won’t be much, but, if it’s any, it’s better than nothing. I know a couple of Western Medicine MD’s that recommend the stuff, and, no, they didn’t sell it in their offices! Scads of non-MD’s recommend these…and most of them DO sell it in their office. Go figure.
Oh, I take glucosamine Sulfate, chondroitin and MSM all wrapped up in one foul-looking brown suppository-like capsule. I don’t think about it a lot, or it’s really hard to swallow… It is either helping, or I’m just feeling better lately, don’t know exactly which, but, I’m not going to stop right now to find out.
Agree on the shark cartilage. It doesn’t work and no studies have shown any efficacy. And worldwide we are exterminating one of Nature’s oldest predators due to our stupidity.
I do take and would recommend Glucosamine as it HAS had studies showing efficacy.
Would not recommend Chondroitin, as studies have also shown zero efficacy. Also, the source is bovine (processed cow connective tissue) which, in the age of mad cow, I would not trust.
Don’t know much about MSM yet.
I think Shark Fin soup is killing them faster.
I’ve found that shark nipple extract is more effective although it is a little harder to find.
Sorry to hear about the wife, disc problems can’t be much fun.