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Health See other Health Articles Title: Glucosamine Slows Down Aging By Supporting Connective Tissue Glucosamine Slows Down Aging By Supporting Connective Tissue "Critical Health News" Connective tissue (CT) is one of the 4 types of tissues that form the human body. (The others are the nervous, muscle and covering or “epithelial” tissue.) The connective tissue supports all the other tissues by binding them together. The connective tissue also nourishes, oxygenates, electrifies and detoxifies all the cells of the body. The connective tissue includes bones and the internal material within which the various organs of the body are embedded. The skin gets its resilience from supportive connective tissue, that is located in the dermis. The heart sits on a framework of connective tissue. The strength and elasticity of the arteries, veins, capillaries and lymphatic vessels depends on connective tissue, while even the blood itself is a type of liquid (actually gel) connective tissue. Interestingly, the cells that compose the connective tissue are NOT connected to each other. They come close but they don’t touch. Rather, the spaces between CT cells are filled in with “grout”, which is really a type of jelly or biological gel substance, that is secreted from connective tissue producing cells (fibroblasts). This gel plays a major determining factor in the health of the connective tissue. This jelly-like material is a type of matrix and, because it is secreted outside of cells, it is called an extra-cellular matrix or ECM. This ECM is the prime determinant of the health of connective tissue and the body as whole. That’s because, the way the system works, the ECM is responsible for feeding, breathing and detoxifying cells. Once the ECM becomes defective or clogged up, with cell breakdown, death and disease begins. When we talk about connective tissue disease, when we talk about aging, when we talk about cancer, when we talk about ALL health challenges, what we are really talking about is some defect in the extracellular matrix. So, while all disease is cell disease, cell disease begins with a defective ECM. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Glucosamine HCL is the better form rather than Glucosamine and Chondroitin that we see advertised. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
To stop occasional knee pain I take Glucosamine, Chondroitin and MSM capsule.
I take MSM capsule since that is only way to get sulfur into the diet. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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