Until recently glucosamine supplements have been like many other supplements (isolated, refined nutritional fractions) that can only work in your body when recombined with their natural nutritional constituents. These constituents are also called nutritional synergists because they synergize or activate nutrients like glucosamine to build stronger joints. Unfortunately, most people who take glucosamine are grossly deficient in the nutritional synergists that make glucosamine work. In fact, that is why they developed arthritis, osteoporosis, or other joint deteriorating diseases in the first place.

Each time you take an isolated or synthetic nutrient like glucosamine, it will seek out and scavenge your body for its naturally occurring nutritional synergist so it can be absorbed and used. Its like a puzzle piece seeking out the other pieces.

Most arthritis and osteoporosis sufferers are already critically deficient in glucosamine’s nutritional synergists. If you are deficient and take these industrially- processed glucosamine pills or powders for a year or two, you can get in trouble by further depleting these nutritional synergists.

Other factors that make joint nutrition ineffective are low-fat diets. Saturated fat (meat, eggs, etc.) is needed to digest and absorb calcium and other minerals. Then there are those on antacids or acid-soppers which lowers stomach acid. To digest you must have sufficient stomach acid. Patients must normalize their digestion to help with proper nutritional absorption.

Building an effective glucosamine pill is no easy task. Contrary to what pill makers would have you believe, only nature makes effective nutrients. You cannot take dozens or even hundreds of synthetic or fractioned nutrients and hope to recombine them into a product that your body will utilize effectively.

These missing pieces are the ones that only nature provides-like enzymes, coenzymes, trace minerals, vitamins yet to be discovered, etc. So it becomes obvious that in order to make an effective glucosamine pill, we would have to use nature’s broad and majestic tapestry of nutrients. These would have to be maintained and processed in their natural state, unaltered by heat, steam, freezing, and chemical changes, or industrial manipulation.

Because Standard Process uses a 70 year old patented processes that no one else has, it is the only company that can get raw bone nutrients in their vital, active, unadulterated form into a pill, capsule, or wafer. In fact, they have combined all the synergistic nutrition to make this as nature would including a pain-relieving punch of the Boswellia serrata plant.

Glucosamine is a carbohydrate involved in forming nails, tendons, skin, eyes, bones, ligaments, and heart valves. Glucosamine sulfate is the supplemental form of glucosamine that helps in the body’s repair and rebuilding of cartilage. As such, taking Standard Process glucosamine when the body also has the nutritional synergists available should provide support for people with joint-cartilage problems.