Ammonia sugar, this star product, is really a household name, but who mentions joint pain, waist pain, you must have an old man or friend around you will tell you, eat some ammonia sugar, slowly fine. Even when someone has osteoporosis, and some people treat it by taking ammonia sugar, can this ammonia sugar really fight osteoporosis? Have you ever questioned? Today Dr. Xie will take you to have a good chat.
Why do doctors recommend that patients take ammonia
I believe that everyone may know that the evaluation of ammonia sugar is still mixed, a large part of patients and doctors think that ammonia sugar is a placebo, and has no effect on the joints; some doctors and patients think that ammonia sugar is useful to the patient's joints, can play a role in protecting cartilage, each country's understanding of ammonia sugar is also different, some countries think that ammonia sugar is a health care product, which can be purchased in department stores, and some countries define ammonia sugar as a drug. Glucosamine sulfate in particular requires a prescription to buy, and in our country it is a combination of nutraceuticals and medicines.
The reason for such a different understanding, Dr. Xie wrote a long popular science article a few days ago, introduced to you in detail, you can search the following articles to further understand this problem.
To put it simply, the main role of ammonia sugar is to help us promote joint endocrine hyaluronic acid, better lubrication of joints, protection of joints, because ammonia sugar is one of the materials of our joint synthesis cartilage, so the appropriate concentration of amino sugar in the blood can help us promote the repair of cartilage damage, and also has a certain effect on resisting inflammatory damage within the joint.
Clinically, some patients with joint problems that are not very serious and joint cartilage wear is very light, and the symptoms are indeed alleviated by taking ammonia sugar, so the doctor will recommend or take oral glucosamine according to the patient's condition and the corresponding examination results, but this is an indication, if the joint wear is too serious, then the amino sugar will not play a role.
Because our joint cartilage is non-renewable!
See here everyone should understand it, ammonia sugar its main role is the cartilage in the joints, and then we talk about osteoporosis.
Why do people have osteoporosis?
Today Dr. Xie explained this matter to everyone, our bones are a dynamic, balanced such an organ, there are two kinds of cells that play a very important role, one is called osteoclast, it will help us to remove some aging problematic bones, this time generally takes 3 to 6 weeks, it will form a bone trap after it works, and then osteoblasts will come to the working unit, secrete collagen-rich osteotoprotection, slowly form new bones, this process is very complicated, it takes 4 ~ 5 months, this non-stop dynamic process, we call bone conversion, it is with this function, we can complete the metabolism of a bone, complete the new growth of bones and structural integrity, complete the renewal of bone structure.
If you read the previous paragraph carefully, you will find that bone resorption takes a relatively short time, while bone formation takes a relatively long time, and there is a very large time difference between the two.
It is our age, our bone formation will become weaker and weaker, and slowly we will have a kind of osteoporosis called senile osteoporosis. There are some special cases, women are in this period of menopause, due to hormonal changes, the activity of osteoclasts becomes stronger and stronger, breaking the balance between normal bone resorption and bone formation, so there will be a kind of osteoporosis called menopausal osteoporosis.
The above two types of osteoporosis are common causes in our clinic, and some osteoporosis is caused by diseases, such as thyroid problems, such as high blood sugar or abnormal renal function induced bone mass changes, this situation is called secondary osteoporosis.
See here you will understand, osteoporosis this disease has its own onset of the disease, its occurrence, development and cartilage damage is not related, so your use of glucosamine to fight osteoporosis in theory has no effect.
If you have osteoporosis, what should you eat?
If you have undergone a dual-energy X-ray examination and there is indeed osteoporosis, it is recommended that you must consult a professional endocrinologist or the advice of an orthopedic surgeon to take drugs scientifically and reasonably, rather than taking ammonia sugar to fight osteoporosis.
There are several drugs that need to be taken, the first should be bone resorption inhibitors, and now commonly used are bisphosphonate drugs (alendronate sodium, zoledronic acid, etc.), there are drugs such as destrumumab, and if your pain is particularly obvious, you can consider using salmon calcitonin.
The second category is drugs that promote bone formation, and the most commonly used are active vitamin D drugs, such as calcitriol or alphacalciferol, and vitamin K2 supplementation is also very important.
Category 3 we can not call it a drug, but should be called a dietary supplement, that is, calcium, patients diagnosed with osteoporosis, it is recommended that the daily intake of calcium should reach about 1200 mg. Here to emphasize, the vast majority of the calcium we take is a dietary supplement, not a drug, there is no need to take it on time, according to the amount of calcium contained in their daily diet, adjust the amount of calcium intake, to avoid excessive calcium supplementation.
If you want to fight osteoporosis, or even reverse osteoporosis, you also need scientific and reasonable lifestyle interventions, such as a high-calcium diet, a diet that is low in salt, low in fat and low sugar, to properly carry out weight-bearing exercise, to adhere to the sun and so on.
summary
In real life, we have a lot of misunderstandings. For example, the idea that ammonia can fight osteoporosis is particularly common, including that my parents have also asked Dr. Xie such a question.
Through today's Mr. Xie's story, you should have a further understanding of ammonia sugar, you should also have a deeper understanding of osteoporosis, in the past popular science articles, Dr. Xie wrote a large number of related science articles, if you are interested, you can pay attention to Dr. Xie, in the previous articles to find the content you need.
I am xie xinhui who insists on explaining the knowledge of complex diseases in simple language, code words are not easy, if you agree with my point of view, please help to pay attention to it or like it, if you or your family and friends also have osteoporosis or bone and joint problems, please forward this article to the need for them, thank you!