Are you wondering what vitamins or supplements you might try out if you have a torn meniscus, or
if you're recovering from a meniscus surgery. In this video, I'll be giving you my honest physical
therapist opinion about 11 supplements that might help you heal a torn meniscus. Now that all the
supplements are right here for you, I'll go into them in just a moment. But before we do that,
let me just tell you the best reason to be using supplements for a meniscus problem. The number one
reason is that you should be taking supplements to improve the healing environment for your
meniscus recovery. The focus of these supplements is twofold. One is to decrease inflammation, many
of these supplements are anti inflammatory, and then two is to increase the amount of chemicals
that make up cartilage. And the fluid around the cartilage inside the joint that's called synovial
fluid, or joint fluid is probably more commonly known. Now have some advice when taking these
supplements. Number one, make sure you talk to your doctor. Don't do this without your doctor's
supervision, you need to make sure that they know what you're doing so that this doesn't interact
with any medications you might be taking. If you're pregnant or nursing, you need to make
sure this is okay for your baby. And generally you want to take these supplements with a meal they
just digest better, they get absorbed better when you take them with a meal. Now add one supplement
at a time, don't take 11 supplements all at the same time. Some of these are combined. So you
might you're gonna have to take them combined, obviously. But if you only have one at a time,
what that does is you can track in case you have an adverse reaction, some problem with it,
you can track it down to the one that you added rather than if you take a bunch all at the same
time, it's hard to tell which one was the cause of the reaction. And along those same lines,
you should probably get some bloodwork done before starting these supplements because you want to see
what your baseline numbers are for your typical bloodwork. And as you start adding the supplements
need to make sure that they're not harming in any way. In fact, they're improving you because many
of these supplements don't just help you for your meniscus health, but they help for other
problems like heart conditions, blood pressure, all those other things can be helped by some of
these supplements as well. But it would be prudent of you to make sure that you're not having any
harmful effects on your bloodwork. Now since these aren't high power medications that like
a pharmacist would give you these are generally pretty safe things are naturally derived many of
them. A couple of them are synthetic, but they're generally pretty safe for normal consumption.
These don't come with childproof lids, at least a couple of them do these two right here. No,
actually this one doesn't as well. So they're easy screw top lids, which make them accessible
to children. And these are often safe for children to take in case you decide to give these to kids
for some reason. The issue though, is that for small children especially, these are some pretty
big pills to swallow. So there they are choking hazards and small kids might be able to open these
so just make sure you keep these in a safe place so that your kids are safe. Right now with all
that base information out of the way. Let's get into each one. The first one I'm going to tell you
about is core sittin now of course it's an is an anti inflammatory. So the whole point of this is
to reduce any inflammation that you have from your meniscus tear after your meniscus surgery. This is
a natural way to do it. This one comes with STC which is a form of vitamin C that helps with the
absorption of course attend courses it is also known to help with seasonal allergies. So if you
suffer from that problem might be a two for one for you. And the way you take this as you take one
tablet per day with a meal. So I'm going to add a tablet to my plate over here so that you can see,
as I go through all of these just how many supplements you might end up taking all
together in a day. So there's that one, and the next one is vitamin C. I've got vitamin C here.
And by the way, these are all from Sol gar I'll tell you a little bit more about them at the end,
except for this one I'll explain why as well. This is 1000 milligrams Vitamin C. Vitamin C is
a well known anti inflammatory antioxidant type substance. So that just means that it's getting
rid of bad stuff in your body. And it helps with decreasing inflammation. This is commonly taken
when you're thinking you might get sick can see they're pretty big pills as well. 1000
milligrams is what's recommended per day. So one of these will help you out and we'll put that on
my plate. Next up we've got vitamin D. Now this comes in vitamin d3, there's different types of
d3 is what you're looking at here. And this one you just need one of these and there's smaller
vitamin D is known to help with muscle function and bone health. So that's why you would take this
it's not commonly known as an anti inflammatory or you know, helping the joint directly but the
reason why I included vitamin D in this list even though it's not directly anti inflammatory
or directly helping cartilage or joint problems, it's helping the muscle and we need the muscles
to be operating their best possible so that they can be used to help your joints take the pressure
off your meniscus So I think it's worthwhile. Plus it has other effects like anti depression effects,
anti anxiety effects. So there's other reasons to take vitamin D as well. Next up is spirulina. And
this one's really interesting. This comes from plankton or an algae that grows in water. This
is a well known superfood. And I think this one's so cool because NASA has endorsed this one that
NASA actually gives their astronauts, spirulina, which is a big deal, because you don't see very
many government agencies advocating for certain supplements. I mean, they're not announcing it to
everybody. They're not plastering it out and advertising it. But the fact that astronauts
are taking spirulina in space must mean that it's pretty good stuff. So they recommend you
take for the and what this does, it's packed with nutrients, vitamins, it's known to help with joint
health with cartilage health. There's there's a lot of anti inflammatory components in here,
magnesium, vitamin A vitamin B, it's kind of like a Centrum or like a multivitamin, but in a natural
form. So that's why I like this one a ton. It's not as synthetic. So you're supposed to take four
of these. Let's take them out of these for some reason to come with a childproof now we're on to
number seven here we've got Omega three fish oils so this is a well known anti inflammatory these
are the large pills these are the ones that I worry most about with kids now that the nice
thing is they're not tablets, like the hard stuff they their gel caps, so they technically pop and
dissolve and it should be okay case it gets a kid gets a hold of it. And I bring up kids because
I have four and they're all small, so I they're always on top of my mind. But I'm going back to
Omega three fish oil, it's it's a well known anti inflammatory helps for heart health for the lining
of tissues in your body. So you definitely want to have this to make to reduce the inflammation
inside your knee joints on the meniscus especially this also helps with cell membranes. And if you
had a tear or if you just had surgery on your meniscus or some time in the past you had surgery,
then your meniscus is injured and chances are their cells in the meniscus that are ruptured
or broken torn. And so you need something like this to make sure that your cells are the best
health possible so that your meniscus is gonna work for you the best in the future. So you're
supposed to take two of these daily, it says to take them apart with a meal but
I just take them together because then I'll forget later on. So I'm gonna put those on my
plate a combo one so here's the last two are gonna be combos here. This is glucosamine and
hyaluronic acid can Dryden and MSM altogether. I'm gonna talk about each one individually for
a moment. Glucosamine is well known to be helpful for cartilage and ligament problems inside joints
and often people are taking it for arthritis osteoarthritis issues, but the meniscus is a
type of cartilage so it makes sense to be taking glucosamine in order to help you're torn meniscus.
And glucosamine is often paired with conjoined, which is another thing that helps meniscus tissue
the cartilage tissue to heal. Conjoined is also found in the fluid inside the knee joints. And
when we're talking about the knee joint. Now this doesn't show the capsule but the capsule
is a bunch of ligaments that surround the knee joint and hold fluid inside and there's in the
lining of the capsule, there's cells that generate the fluid, they make the fluid and that they can
also increase the amount of fluid to where you have too much they help to regulate it. But they
create a capsule that holds the fluid and that fluid directly touches the meniscus and helps it
to heal and it gives it nourishment. It's well known that the meniscus does not have the best
blood supply compared to other tissues other parts of the knee. So how does it How does it live? How
does it stay healthy, how does it heal while it gets it from the fluid that's inside your
knee joints. So you need to make sure you have all the chemical components necessary in the fluid in
your knee joints so that you can heal as fast as possible and make sure to stay healthy for
the long term. So using conjoin is definitely going to help you out now highly uronic acid is
next and that's another substance it's also found inside the fluid of the knee joint hydronic acid
has grown in popularity is helping connective tissue and there's connective tissue all over
your body but but it's especially found inside cartilage and ligaments. And so you want to take
this if you have any problem that's why they've combined all these then the next one is MSM and
I'm going to read this off my list here because I always mispronounce this methyl sulphonyl methane
is what this stands for MSM I'm gonna get it closer to you right there MSM and that
one is a known anti inflammatory as well and specifically because of the sulfur part of the
methyl Suffolk sulphonyl methane that is known to help with joint health. So that's why they've
put all four of those components of supplements into this one mega supplement for joint health
and cartilage health. I would definitely be taking This if I had a meniscus tear,
or if I just had a meniscus surgery, and the nice thing is you don't have to worry about
purchasing each of these individually, they all come in the same one. So you take three a day,
you're pretty big, careful. Put those in there. The last two here, we have tumeric, and curcumin.
Now Tumeric comes from a root plant, and you can buy it in its raw form. In most grocery stores,
it's often there in the produce section. But of course, it's ground up and they sell ground
Tumeric anyway, it's usually it's often used as a seasoning or a flavoring in certain cultural
foods, which I love. But it's known to have anti inflammatory benefits. So that's why I
recommend taking Tumeric because it's going to naturally bring down your inflammation. Now,
Curcumin is also replant and they're the from the same, the same family, but they're slightly
different. And they also is an anti inflammatory. So that's why they've paired these together.
And you can see at the bottom of this is with ginger root, sometimes they pair it with black
pepper. And the reason for pairing it with either ginger root or black pepper is because it helps
with absorption because turmeric and curcumin alone are a little bit difficult to absorb,
it's usually with other stuff. So they'll always put it with ginger powder, or with black pepper.
This one's ginger powder, you're gonna want to take two of these per day with the meal along with
the other supplements build up to it, of course to make sure you don't have any reactions and make
sure your doctor is okay with all that. So there you go. There's your all your supplements that
you might take in try out if you have a meniscus tear, we've got a total of 14 tablets and capsules
here that we can take to help us out and as long as taking this to the meal should be just fine in
your tummy. Now let me give you my honest physical therapist opinion about using these supplements
for a meniscus problem. I think it's a no brainer. If you have a meniscus problem, whether you had
surgery or just had a tear, and you're trying to help it without surgery, why not take all
these supplements that can improve the environment for healing inside your knee, so that you can set
yourself up to have the best healing possible. Now, of course, if you have any reactions,
or if your doctor said Naga dia for whatever reason that relates to your specific situation,
maybe a medication, you're pregnant, your nursing or some other health conditions you might have,
of course, follow your doctor's instructions, but see what you can take because maybe you can take
some of these and still help you out and always try one out at a time, give it a week or two, make
sure that you're okay. If you have any adverse reactions, stop taking it immediately. Check with
your doctor, make sure that there isn't something else that you did that's causing that reaction.
But I want to warn you of something with these supplements. Although they're great for improving
the healing environment inside your knee, you can't rely on just taking supplements and expect
your meniscus problem to go away 100% for the pain to go away and percent, and for the integrity
of your meniscus to remain healthy for the long term, so that you can get back to doing whatever
you want. This helps to take care of the chemical side of things. But there's also the mechanical
side of things. And what I mean by that I mean how the joint is moving. So if you look at the knee,
your knee bends and straightens out, you've got all these muscles that are layered on they're
not visible in this model. But there's muscle imbalances that are often at the root problem
of meniscus tears. And those need to be addressed so that you can get the right pressures happening
through your meniscus. And if you haven't corrected that, even if you've had surgery,
they don't fix your strength. They don't make you weaker, it doesn't fix the way that you move.
You've got to address that root muscle imbalance so that you have normal pressures going through
your meniscus so that you can offload it and give it the best chance for healing and staying healthy
not reentering it for the long term. That's what we focus on talking about here on this channel,
fixing problems for the long term. And we focus mainly on the mechanical side of problems. Me
being a physical therapist, that's what I can speak to the best. So down in the description
below. I've linked all our meniscus help videos in all our meniscus surgery help in case you've
had surgery, you go find playlist full of helpful videos for those topics. I've also got for you a
knee meniscus recovery program, which is a 100% online program that you can watch at your own pace
to learn exactly what you need to be doing it all the different phases of healing, in healing from
meniscus injury, whether you've had meniscus surgery, or you haven't had surgery and you're
going at it to try to prevent having surgery. This program is a comprehensive step by step program
that I've developed in order to help you out you can go learn more about that in the description
below. And you'll find it the description below as well. Links to Amazon for each of
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