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Help Comes from the Kitchen Cupboard
In the year 2000 the World Health Organisation WHO declared the present decade to be the Bone and Joint Decade. For a very good reason: several hundred million people around the world are suffering long-term pain and physical handicaps due to diseases of and injuries to the locomotor system. The early stages for arthritis can be detected in almost one in two 35-year olds. Overall, around 15% of the world’s population live with an arthritic complaint, for those over 50 the figure is as high as 75% - and growing. Worldwide the risk of getting osteoporosis is 30 to 40 per cent for women. For men the risk is 13 per cent. These complaints, which can affect both old and young, have serious consequences for the health system. Around one fifth of the costs for all illnesses are caused by them. But we are not powerless against complaints of the joints – for example, help can come from the kitchen cupboard.
Results:
Gelatine Encourages Cartilage Growth and Smoothes Pain
The positive effects of gelatine on bones, joints, tendons and ligaments have been proved in groundbreaking research. New, as yet unpublished results have also shown that cartilage formation is clearly encouraged by gelatine. Animal experiments were used to investigate how the peptides – small protein molecules – in gelatine reach the target organs in cartilage and the skin.1 In these studies, deposits could be detected in the cartilage after as few as six hours.
In prior examinations with patients who suffered from arthritic complaints of the locomotor system and treated with gelatine, the positive effect of the natural foodstuff on bones and joints was also shown. A double blind study was carried out, where neither the doctor nor the patient knew whether gelatine or a dummy treatment was given. Among those patients who were treated with gelatine for a period of two months, the pain diminished greatly. Patients who had received the dummy treatment, by contrast, felt no improvement.2
The goal of another international and clinical gelatine arthritis study was to investigate whether the foodstuff gelatine can positively support the thera-peutic treatment of patients suffering from arthritis of the knee. Even after two months the patients felt much less pain in their knees and were thus more mobile.
Arthritis and osteoporosis can occur in very young people, although not very often. Regular dosing with the natural foodstuff gelatine is therefore very important, even at a young age.
Extra healthy: 10 g gelatine (for example, in 200 g low-fat aspics, e.g. or as a granulate stirred in a yoghurt) meet the daily requirement of gelatine to strengthen connective tissue and joints.
1 Cf. Steffen Oesser, Milan Adam, Wilfried Babel und Jürgen Seifert; Kiel University, Rheumatics Research Institute Prague, DGF Stoess AG Eberbach: “Oral Administration of 14C Labeled Gelatine Hydrolysate Leads to an Accumulation of Radioactivity in Carti-lage of Mice (C57/BL)”. The Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 129, No. 10, Oct. 1999, p. 1891-1895.
2 Cf. Prof. M. Adam, Rheumatics Research Institute Prague: “Welche Wirkung haben Gelatinepräparate?”. Therapie der Woche, No. 41, September 1991, page 2456-2461.
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