You know how important cartilage is for healthy joints, right?
It’s the cartilage that acts as a cushion so your bones don’t rub together every time you twist, bend or move. When that cartilage deteriorates, as it often does with age or due to repetitive stresses or injury — ouch! Joint pain is virtually a given.
There’s a good chance, however, that you haven’t heard about chondrocytes, which are the cells that form the cartilage in your body.
Chondrocytes are also responsible for the biosynthesis of three crucial factors for joint health:
- Type II collagen
- Hyaluronic acid (HA, which acts as a cushion and lubricant in your joints) and…
- Chondroitin sulfate, which I’ll explain below.
In people with severe knee pain, autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) is a recognized medical treatment that involves culturing chondrocyte cells (sourced from cartilage elsewhere in your body), and then implanting them into the damaged area.
The idea is that by injecting chondrocytes back into the cartilage, it may help to repair and heal the area by essentially growing new joint cartilage.
Chondrocytes are essential for healthy joint function as they are the only cells that produce cartilage tissue.
However, your body must have the proper building blocks available in order for chondrocytes, and therefore your cartilage, to flourish.
If you have joint pain, that’s a sign your body is not meeting the nutritional requirements necessary to sustain cartilage, let alone repair and strengthen it.
How to Stimulate Your Body to Produce More Chondrocytes — Hydrolyzed Type II Collagen
ACI surgery is not the only way to get your body to build new cartilage. A far less invasive option is to supplement with hydrolyzed type II collagen.
By strengthening cartilage and replenishing the synovial fluid that helps lubricate your joints, hydrolyzed collagen improves joint comfort and mobility.
Hydrolyzed collagen is important, in particular, because it contains glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) such as hyaluronic acid (HA) and chondroitin sulfate, which help promote joint cushioning and lubrication.
Further, hydrolyzed Type II Collagen may even help rebuild cartilage because it stimulates the production of chondrocytes.
Only hydrolyzed type II collagen stimulates collagen biosynthesis, which stimulates the cartilage-making chondrocytes as under natured collagen fails to do so according to at least one study[i].
Collagen in its native or unhydrolyzed form has a large molecular structure too difficult for your body to use and absorb.
Type II collagen is important because it is specific for the articular, or joint, cartilage (type I collagen is found in your bones, skin, tendons, blood vessel walls and organs).
Two Additional Nutrients for Healthy Chondrocytes
Glucosamine is found naturally throughout your body, but especially in your cartilage. In your joints, it acts as a building block and helps provide structure to your cartilage while maintaining healthy joint function and mobility. Glucosamine helps your body’s chondrocytes repair damaged cartilage and slow the rate of cartilage breakdown.[ii]
Chondroitin sulfate is another building block necessary for chondrocytes to build new cartilage, and is naturally found in the cartilage around your joints. It is known to work synergistically with glucosamine and has been shown to improve symptoms of joint pain[iii] and possibly even reverse joint deterioration.
Nature’s Best Source of Hydrolyzed Type II Collagen
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But that’s not all. Super Joint Support® also contains the synergistic joint nutrients chondroitin sulfate, hyaluronic acid, glucosamine sulfate potassium and more. Plus, it’s all packaged in a formula that contains 72 ionic trace minerals to ensure rapid absorption and assimilation into your body.
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