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Some of my thoughts on "Health Matters", especially related to nutrition.What is the same about WATERING YOUR POT PLANTS and taking any meds or supplements? Say you had a set amount of water to give your plant at the same time(s) every day. Some days it would most likely end up with too much or too little water. Plants, like our cells, are living things and depending on the air, the sun and the soil they’re growing in, the temperature and they may need more or less water on any given day. These factors, like our environments, are constantly changing. We can grow healthy plants when we water them based on their needs, and they communicate those needs to us by how much water they suck in or let pool above the soil, by the texture and color of their leaves. It’s a give and take process, depending on the plant, as opposed to a standard “prescription” or dose of a supplement.Now think about how we take meds or even supplements over a longer term.We have to "listen" to our bodies. If our muscles are aching or weak, if our skin is peeling off, if our blood runs out too fast on a minor cut..AND we are taking some meds or supplements.. then first please consider the side effects of the meds/supplemenets. Their dose may be wrong for us, usually too high as meds are NOT a basic NEED, unlike water. Drugs are designed to help but can really only be prescribed in "average" doses. We need to "watch" how they are working on us, just like watering plants.

On the ten news tonight they mentioned a study showed glucosamine producing a diabetic state 'within' cells, and also mentioned this may led to diabetes, and also infertility on some animals in the study. At least this was the gist I thought I heard?
I looked up the channel 10 news site.. but nix. BBC where are u!!

just posting this as a reminder to myself to find out more about this as I take a glucosamine chrondritin MSM powder mix to help with my knee joints, although I'm unsure if it has any effect, BUT I have been getting this 'intense burning'(more at some times than others, but always something PN-like, which seems to match the description of diabetic neuropathy in my feet.. so I'm wondering if glucosamine is causing or worsening this?

Searching on pubmed I found these below: but there is more. I did a pubmed search on "glucosamine diabetic within cells".

Glucosamine-induced insulin resistance in L6 muscle cells

Glucosamine induces lipid accumulation and adipogenic change in C2C12 myoblasts.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2005 Mar 11;328(2):369-74.
PMID: 15694357 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Hyaluronic acid production and CD44 expression in cultured dermal fibroblasts of patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus with and without chronic ulcers on the lower extremity."We observed that diabetic fibroblasts of both groups produced more L-lactate ( approximately 30%) and incorporated more (3)H-glucosamine into the medium hyaluronic acid ( approximately 28%) than controls"
I got lost with this study, but it shows something is going on with hyaluronic acid and lactate
"Hyaluronic acid metabolism and CD44 expression are regulated by lactate, where their increased production is considered to affect the properties of fibroblasts in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus"

Will look at more later...

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Glucosamine may cause diabetic state within cells?