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Glucosamine, chondroitin and collagen for Osteo arthritis and more
Glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM, have been used to support bone structure, reduce pain and swelling in elderly for osteo arthritis for many years. I have not looked at the types and collagen much till now.
My father who is now 88, is in need of an alternative products to medical anti-inflammatory and Cortisone. He cannot eliminate medications well, and cortisone made him retain so much water that he ended up in hospital, unable to move due to water retention.
Now, has he also was so much in pain, that I decided to look into alternative products to suggests.
Glucosamine, chondroitin an MSM are excellent for OA and any arthritic condition. Now he does not take any type of medication, and so he can take the high dosage of the products. If you are taken any blood clotting medication or any life saving medication, you need to consult your doctor for that, as MSM can eliminate your medication quicker and hence cause some problems.
Now the reason for OA in elderly, is that from the time we reach 40 years of age our collagen start to decline, and the rebuild is much slower. In some is slower than others.
Nutritionally, vitamin C foods and supplements, with zinc, drinking adequate water, can slow down the process of collagen decline.
If you are vegetarian and vegan the above vitamin, needs to be taken in supplements to make it slower. Collagen is only in animal products, such as meat and fish. And any products of collagen are meat or fish derived. Greens, salad or any other vegetarian or vegan sources do not contain collagen.
Now, having looked at some of the research for glucosamine and chondroitin, the dosage in studies where it made a difference was quite high, from 800 mg for chondroitin and higher. So if you are taking that, is good to take in a good dosage.
To take extra collagen for the non vegetarian, is worth knowing that there are few types. Our body has about 28 types of collage. The most common ones are Type I, II, III, V and X.
Hyaluronic acid and elastin are part of collagen. Collagen I is most prevalent and important for skin, bone, tendon, cornea and vascular ligature. Type II is found in cartilage and vitreous body (eye). Type III is in skin, uterus, intestine and vessels. Type V is found in placenta (so important for pregnancy), in bones, skin, cornea, hair and cell surfaces (essential for all your cell membranes as a protective layer, yep this is how important it is).
Collagen type VI is also found in bones, skin and cornea, and collagen type VII can be found in skin, bladder, mucous membranes, amniotic fluid and umbilical cord (again this is essential for your baby if you are pregnant).
Collagen Type VIII is found in the skin, heart, kidney, brain, bones, cartilage and vessels. Collagen Type X, XI and IX are found in cartilages.
What food contains high collagen: bone broth, legs and feet of chicken, meat, fish will have higher collagen.
Supplementing your diet with vitamin C every two hours if you are healthy, taking extra zinc, drinking plenty of water as collagen contain and needs water to form.
© Maria Esposito BSc (Hons) R-Nutritional Therapists – NAET – R-Craniosacral therapist – NLP practitioner – PCI NLP Health coaching – Certified Angel Guide – Mindfulness Meditation teacher – The resilient Heart (Heart-Math) meditation and 12.5 hours CPD in Trauma for professionals – M-Bant – M-CSTA – CHNC registered
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Preparing for pregnancy
Preparing for pregnancy: Nutrition and connections for having a human being!
Making a human being, needs to be thought and prepare the vessel, or a woman body, as well as the man sperm, to make sure that the human being that you are making, is healthy, and stays healthy in their adult life.
And it is true that sometimes, the grandmothers health is as important as the parents themselves. That is because the eggs of the women are already there since birth. So the health of the father or the mother, has been determined in some way already by the health of their mothers.
The second stage of your baby health is the parents body health. For the man, if they want a healthy sperm, they need to prepare at least 3 months before to even started to have a baby, as the cycle of the sperm take almost 3 months to complete. So for the sperm to be healthy the man needs to start giving up alcohol, and increase their exercise and healthy eating at least 3 months before.
For the mother, again if they smoke (or both parents smoke, ideally start reducing or giving up, without the vape either, as that is pure nicotine, 6 months or a year before hand).
The mother vitamin A needs to be there stored in the liver. Vitamin A is essential for fertility for both parents, cell division and replication, when there an insemination and then for implantation of the embryo, as well as for the eyes health.
For the vegetarian form, beta-carotene during pregnancy does not convert well to Retinol, so might be important that a supplement of vitamin A, or retinol, before falling pregnant is essential for vegetarian and vegan mothers.
Iron status also needs to be at optimum level for mothers, so that they do not fall too low during pregnancy. Iron is essential for many functions and growth during pregnancy for the mother and the baby.
Vitamin D is also essential to be at optimum level for mothers prior to pregnancy, as well as vitamin E. Vitamin D for calcium uptake for mothers and babies, and vitamin E a anti-oxidant for both.
Vitamin B12, is also essential to be at optimum level prior to pregnancy as essential for many function during pregnancy, especially for vegetarian, vegans and any one that had eating disorders, or disorder eating in the past.
Zinc also essential in many function during pregnancy.
Other essential vitamins for everyday health and fertility are the water soluble vitamin Bs, all of them, and in particular B3 and B6. Water soluble vitamins like the B vitamins and vitamin C and iodine, do get eliminated everyday, so you need to eat food that has them every day.
Also your thyroid is essential for you to get pregnant, so make sure that your thyroid is in good health. You might need to take kelp or iodine if you are low, to fall pregnant. The thyroid is essential to maintain the metabolism and your energy during pregnancy and after, and it is the one that is quite tired at the end of pregnancy and during breastfeeding.
There are lots more vitamins and minerals, as well as carbohydrates, fat essentials and non essential, and proteins, that are in need to be in a balanced way, before, during and after pregnancy. If you had multiple pregnancy before, than you might need to top up on some of the nutrients before you have your next one!
and ALSO
Connecting to your baby when you are pregnant will make so much difference to that baby landing to the outside world. There are more and more studies now, (if you are want proof), that baby do feel if the mother touches their belly, or talk to the belly, even at an early stage, and if you explain to your baby in your belly, that one day you were upset or stressed or overwhelmed, and that way of being had nothing to do with the baby, that whatever they are feeling or sensing, is something that you as a mother were going through, the baby will come out in this world understanding that what he/she felt was not his/hers and hence they do not hold on to it through their lives!.
Talk and communicate with your baby, before they are born or certainly when they are born. Communications is the way a baby will understand you, and when they cry is the way they communicate with you that something is not right with them.
Most of all when they are born, do cuddle them, hold them, go to them when they cry, kiss them and tell them that they are so precious and important. Sing and laugh with them, from conception to birth and beyond! Enjoy the little ones!
You can book an appointment with me by email me or call me to make sure that you are preparing nutritionally and mentally for your first baby or multiple babies.
Craniosacral therapy is a perfect combination of a healthy body and mind and connecting to your beautiful baby or babies, during pregnancy. North London clinic
Craniosacral Healing /Nutrition NAET/Mindfulness living/ NlP health coach /mind body and soul 