{"id":449,"date":"2006-12-02T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2006-12-02T00:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T00:57:00","slug":"does-glucosamine-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/does-glucosamine-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Glucosamine Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Guest Blogger: <a href=\"http:\/\/windowmanager.blogspot.com\/\">The Window Manager<\/a><br \/>One for us old-timer karate folks, a follow-up question about glucosamine:<br \/>\n<b>Followup: Does Glucosamine Work?<\/b><br \/>A reader finds <a href=\"http:\/\/windowmanager.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/glucosamine-does-it-work.html\">my earlier entry on glucosamine<\/a> and wonders if it worked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I found your site by searching on &#8220;glucosamine&#8221; and &#8220;tae kwon do&#8221;; I&#8217;m a middle-aged tae kwon do student (7th gup, after about 1 year or so of classes) with crappy flexibility, also trying glucosamine. I&#8217;d be interested in what you found. I don&#8217;t see your follow-up. Did you post one?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIn one of those little life coincidences, I was looking at my bottle of glucosamine and thinking about writing a followup entry about an hour before I saw this email. Weird.<br \/>\nAt any rate I have to say this: my flexibility definitely improved after taking glucosamine. This wasn&#8217;t a scientific test, but it seemed to work for me. And this is was after seeing a big improvement in my flexibility which seemed to plateau.<br \/>\nWhen I first started taking Tae Kwon Do two plus years ago I could barely touch my toes. My flexibility gradually improved, but the improvement seemed to stall. The glucosamine did seem to help, and today I can sit with my legs out straight, cup my hands beneath my feet, and put my forehead on my knees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Guest Blogger: The Window ManagerOne for us old-timer karate folks, a follow-up question about glucosamine: Followup: Does Glucosamine Work?A reader finds my earlier entry on glucosamine and wonders if it worked: I found your site by searching on &#8220;glucosamine&#8221; and &#8220;tae kwon do&#8221;; I&#8217;m a middle-aged tae kwon do student (7th gup, after<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/does-glucosamine-work\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}