Healthy joints

Healthy and properly functioning cartilage is critical to a normally functioning joint and to pain free movement. Cartilage, while a metabolically active tissue, undergoes a slow and constant structural turnover. Consequently, articular cartilage has a low intrinsic ability to repair itself. Effectively, this means that once a cartilage cell is lost it is not replaced.¹

This is the reason preservation of normal cartilage is so critical. The use of nutraceuticals plays an important role in the preservation of cartilage function by maintaining cartilage structure and inhibiting the degradative enzymes that destroy cartilage.

 

Reference

1 Beale BS. Use of nutraceuticals and chondroprotectants in osteoarthritic dogs and cats. The Veterinary Clinics - Small Animal Practice. 2004. Volume 34: Seiten 271-289