Based on latest research made known on Oral glucosamine, often marketed for joint pain has no more influence than a dummy pill. At both three-month and 24 months follow up points which data of analysis of randomized controlled trials be made public, the result was in relieving hip or knee pain from arthritis there was no effect.
Senior study author Sita Bierma-Zeinstra of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands said: “Even analyses of the results for subgroups of study participants, such as overweight people or those with high inflammation, found no benefit with the supplements.“Most recent guidelines conclude there is an overall lack of efficacy of glucosamine, however, we knew that osteoarthritis could affect sub groups differently,”
The Osteoarthritis Research Society International and the U.S. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence freshly dispensed regulation about the absence of indication for glucosamine as a cure for joint pain.