Choosing The Best Joint Care Supplements
There are many joint care supplements on the market, all designed to help fortify the joints, reduce inflammation and reduce overall pain and swelling.
By and large, they all rely on Omega-3 EFA (essential fatty acids) to achieve both anti-inflammatory effects, and help lubricate the joint.
Omega-3 is an interesting collection of fatty acids that cannot be produced by the human body, and yet are vital to many processes.
Eating foods rich in Omega-3 is therefore the only way to replenish the body’s stocks and enjoy the health benefits associated with it.
One of these benefits is the use of Omega-3 as a joint care supplement – and they are usually based on fish oils, which are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids.
They are less aggressive than other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs used in traditional joint care supplements, and can be just as effective.
However, regular fish-oil based products, while effective for the relief of joint pain, swelling and stiffness, don’t offer many additional health benefits.
Enter the green lipped mussel – found in the clear waters around New Zealand, the green lipped mussel has been used as a natural supplement for centuries.
Green Lipped Mussel Joint Care Supplements
The Maori people, native to New Zealand, are lucky – they don’t suffer from arthritis, and have very few other aches and pains. Their belief is that this isn’t just luck, but a rich diet of shellfish, above all, the green lipped mussel; consumed raw.
It’s a well known fact that cooking mussels removes up to 90% of their nutrients, and an analysis of the green lipped mussel reveals that this means waving goodbye to a raft of useful vitamins and minerals.
Besides a large density of Omega-3, there are also vital natural chemical compounds, including mucopolysaccharides that help with everything from metabolism to the circulatory system.
The MPS’s actually deteriorate in the human body over time, and so it is believed that replacing them could help counteract some of the signs of ageing, as well as helping support the immune system fight off bacteria and free radicals.
Free radicals can destroy cells, and are caused by ingesting toxins in everyday life, so anything that can help counteract them must be good.
Now, people might assume that all joint care supplements that make use of green lipped mussels will bring all of these benefits. However, most processes that produce green lipped mussel extracts involve heating – cooking – the mussels, thereby removing almost all the additional nutrients.
Sure, you get the joint care, but why leave out all the additional benefits of the raw green lipped mussel?
A company called Maxalife uses a two stage, low temperature process which can turn the green lipped mussel into a 100% natural nutritious powder, in less than 30 minutes.
Equally impressive is Maxalife’s cultivation of the best mussels: they’ve chosen one supplier, and insist that the water is the purest possible, and select their mussels from that crop.
Their story, like the Maoris’, makes a good read, and is worth reading to get the inside scoop on Maxalife’s Green Lipped Mussel powder joint care supplements.
This is the product that we think is superior to all others because of their unique extracting process, which turns raw mussel into a powder without losing its nutritional value.
Have a look at their Green Lipped Mussel Guide and you will see why we recommend their product so highly.
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