text:  lots of benefits glucosamine takes quite a while to kick in msm is a wonderful sulfur compound and again it's an anti-inflammatory as are many things like fish oil so these are all wonderful but they're not dealing with the origin of the problem the origin of the problem is the loss of cushioning in the joint and if we can just replace this if we can find a way to get that cushioning back that's what we call youthfulness that's what we had when we were young here's david writing to me for