Aldi supplements - Glutamine - fish oil tablets

[MDL]

Hey wondering weather Anyone has tried the Glutamine tablets and fish oil tablets from aldi? The Glutamine is only $10 that was the only reason I was looking at them.

MDL

[Mustang]

It may be an idea to compare the concentration of the glucosomine,? I saw a comparison the other day of two products that looked the same, one brand you only needed 1 x pill, the other you needed 9 x pills daily.

[scotto]

at that price try em and see. they do as much good as harm anyway

[MDL]

Yeah I think it was 1000 not 1500 so not quite as strong as the blackmores but still works out a little cheaper

MDL

[scotto]

does strength matter ?
there's not enough real evidence on the use of fish oil / glucosamine etc, let alone appropriate dosage. hence try it and see if it helps you more, less or the same.

[MDL]

Well it pick up some of the glucosamine, $6.99 for a month and a half.

MDL

[gorilla monsoon]

does strength matter ?
there's not enough real evidence on the use of fish oil / glucosamine etc, let alone appropriate dosage. hence try it and see if it helps you more, less or the same.

Funny about that evidence thing. Two doctors I see regularly both recommended fish oil and so did a surgeon I have been seeing for a knee problem. A naturopath asked my wife to increase her dosage.

Ditto glucosamine.

[ghunt04]

Hey guys,

Just noticed the conversation turned from "Glutamine" (in the OP & title) to "Glucosamine"

From my understanding

Glutamine is more for aiding recovery (repair muscle). A PT has told me he suggests it for guys looking to cut weight instead of using a protein powder. This most likely comes in the form of a powder.

Glucosamine is for joint cartilage, eg sore knees. Which are in the pills you picked up.

Thanks.

[Wayfarer]

Funny about that evidence thing. Two doctors I see regularly both recommended fish oil and so did a surgeon I have been seeing for a knee problem. A naturopath asked my wife to increase her dosage.

Ditto glucosamine.

My doctors say neither of them do anything, and my doctors could beat up your doctors
But really, there's no proof supplementing something your body naturally produces (glucosamine) will do anything but pass through. I guess what i mean is, if you have problems, you need to get them fixed properly, not throw some pills and hope it goes away.

[nutsack]

does strength matter ?
there's not enough real evidence on the use of fish oil / glucosamine etc, let alone appropriate dosage. hence try it and see if it helps you more, less or the same.

Glucosamine is no better than placebo.

http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c4675.full
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/304/1/45.full

Glutamine is a different substance. (I haven't looked into it yet).

Fish oil I believe helps but i haven't sighted compelling evidence.

The majority (if not all) of natural or over the counter remedies are no better than placebo and should be labelled and sold as such.

[gtfpv cycler]

glucosamine made my knee pain worse , i took it for 6 months . i told the docs , they just said keep taking it for life . the chemist said it starts working in 3 to 4 months . i actually stop taking it and the knee pain reduced , this was before any exercise . by the way the only thing the mri picked up was softening of the knee cap cartalidge . there is no eveidence that it works except for payments to doctors to recommend it imo . the theory is that glucosamine is made out of cartalidge from crustacians , crab shells and prawn shells , the theory is that if you eat it it might repair cartalidge . it is naturally in egg whites and merrangue as well .
on the other hand fish oil is proven to lower cholesterol ,tha'ts a given, but germans, french, greeks and russians all have higher cholesterol than westerners and a longer life span with less heart attacks .
its one of those things i guess .
i'm no doctor so what i said is backed up with nothing / no evidence . just my opinion . do your own research .

[Wayfarer]

glucosamine made my knee pain worse , i took it for 6 months . i told the docs , they just said keep taking it for life . the chemist said it starts working in 3 to 4 months . i actually stop taking it and the knee pain reduced , this was before any exercise . by the way the only thing the mri picked up was softening of the knee cap cartalidge . there is no eveidence that it works except for payments to doctors to recommend it imo . the theory is that glucosamine is made out of cartalidge from crustacians , crab shells and prawn shells , the theory is that if you eat it it might repair cartalidge . it is naturally in egg whites and merrangue as well .
on the other hand fish oil is proven to lower cholesterol ,tha'ts a given, but germans, french, greeks and russians all have higher cholesterol than westerners and a longer life span with less heart attacks .
its one of those things i guess .
i'm no doctor so what i said is backed up with nothing / no evidence . just my opinion . do your own research .

Well seeming as doctors wallets are payed by pharmaceutical companies I'd tend to agree Forget not that the Germans and French do plenty more exercise than we westerners (well noone on this site particularly, but as a general consensus). Y'know exercise lowers cholesterol more than any dietary supplement possibly can?

[Aushiker]

Yeah I think it was 1000 not 1500 so not quite as strong as the blackmores but still works out a little cheaper

I take high strength fish oil tablets but was having a small problem with my right knee and decided to try Glucosamine and it does appear to work for me. However, I find that with my taking the 1,000 tablets (they where cheap) that if I miss a day or two the pain comes back fairly quickly and it takes a week to get it under control again. I will I think try 1,500 tablets next time to see if it makes any difference.

Andrew

[nutsack]

Well seeming as doctors wallets are payed by pharmaceutical companies I'd tend to agree Forget not that the Germans and French do plenty more exercise than we westerners (well noone on this site particularly, but as a general consensus). Y'know exercise lowers cholesterol more than any dietary supplement possibly can?

I hope the smiley means you are kidding, otherwise the comment is ridiculous.

If you want to complain about pharmaceutical kickbacks ask your local pharmacist why he/she pushes a certain generic companies product over anothers, or from pushing a natural product/placebo. I can assure you your local gp gets nothing out of recommending treatments. Not even a pen or a 3 pack of logo golf balls since legislation was introduced couple years back.

[gtfpv cycler]

Well seeming as doctors wallets are payed by pharmaceutical companies I'd tend to agree Forget not that the Germans and French do plenty more exercise than we westerners (well noone on this site particularly, but as a general consensus). Y'know exercise lowers cholesterol more than any dietary supplement possibly can?

I hope the smiley means you are kidding, otherwise the comment is ridiculous.

If you want to complain about pharmaceutical kickbacks ask your local pharmacist why he/she pushes a certain generic companies product over anothers, or from pushing a natural product/placebo. I can assure you your local gp gets nothing out of recommending treatments. Not even a pen or a 3 pack of logo golf balls since legislation was introduced couple years back.

well thats good to hear . try finding some conclusive scientific medical evidence that this stuff works . some orthapedics push it , others say its useless .

[Wayfarer]

Well seeming as doctors wallets are payed by pharmaceutical companies I'd tend to agree Forget not that the Germans and French do plenty more exercise than we westerners (well noone on this site particularly, but as a general consensus). Y'know exercise lowers cholesterol more than any dietary supplement possibly can?

I hope the smiley means you are kidding, otherwise the comment is ridiculous.

If you want to complain about pharmaceutical kickbacks ask your local pharmacist why he/she pushes a certain generic companies product over anothers, or from pushing a natural product/placebo. I can assure you your local gp gets nothing out of recommending treatments.

oh really? Lets do a quick google search; http://www.watoday.com.au/national/paid ... -2ufe.html

"Many leading specialists are being paid generous fees to peddle influence on behalf of the world's biggest drug companies,"

Regardless of your opinion though, it's undeniable that doctors do not monitor patients over a long period of time to see if rubbish like glucosamine or fish oil actually work or help; what they recommend comes from a text book or journal article, and most of the time, they couldn't give half of two stuffs whether or not it actually works. If we're talking about a physiologist who does long term care, different story.

If glucosamine supplementation did work, it wouldn't be a secret. It'd have many articles written about it, without any fishing through rubbish half-articles about how it 'may' work. If it worked, osteoporosis wouldn't affect 1/3 Australians, and all our cartilage problems would be solved. No more knee replacements. It's that simple. Unlike creatine; it works, and everybody knows it does, end of discussion, no beating around the bush or 'clinical trials', or any other rubbish.

No freebies?

It's a blatant example of a pharmaceutical company trying to boost profits by swaying the professional decisions of clinicians - something that also happens here in Australia - whether it's drug company freebies like the branded pens and notepads that litter doctors desks, or industry sponsored conferences and education sessions

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/nationalintere ... 683547.htm
and my personal favorite
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/he ... 5837527835
Big expensive parties for doctors? I want a party.

[aldifan]

If you search the Cochrane reviews you will clearly see that there is conclusive evidence that Eskimos eat more fish than we do and have fewer heart attacks. The obvious conclusion from this is that we should all wear fur, sleep in a freezer and get chased by polar bears on a regular basis or we will all DIE!!!!!!

Seriously though, eat a varied, nutritious and hopefully tasty diet and you should not need too much else.

Oh and ride your bike a bit.(This is a cycling forum after all.)