Interviewer: What are the top nutrients that you recommend for good joint health?

Dr Stern: The top nutrients I recommend for good joint health are the ones I'm putting in my new joint formula. In fact, I just formulated a formula I'm really excited about.

The number one thing I like to look at anytime I'm formulating a supplement is the foundation of why I'm creating it. I don't want to just attack the symptoms, I want to attack the underlying cause of what the problem can be.

So, when someone comes in here and their joints aren't strong or healthy, I would say we need to work on strength, flexibility and bounds training, but when it comes to nutrition - what... Read More

Interviewer: In your opinion, what is the biggest problem that people are having right now with their current approach to joint pain?

Dr. Stern: Number one, they take too many over-the-counter medications and they think it's okay.

Advil, Aleve, Tylenol. People take these on a daily basis, they're billion dollar businesses, and the problem is, they do reduce the inflammation, but they really hurt you on a couple levels.

Although they reduce the inflammation and mask the pain, they're not facilitating anything in the body on a healing process, and they're actually proven to wear the cartilage down, therefore worsening the problem by delaying the healing response.

So, if you come to me and you have inflammation in your knee and you're... Read More

Interviewer: A lot of athletes take chondroitin, Glucosamine and MSM for their joints. That's the most common joint supplement that people take. What are your thoughts on that and why do you think that's so?

Dr. Stern: My new formula that I'm coming out with does not have chondroitin, it does not have glucosamine and it does not have MSM. This is the reason why.

MSM is a great nutrient, I have no problem with MSM as it reduces inflammation.

Here's the thing, though.

If you're going to do a complex nutrient, MSM shouldn't be in there. When I started my own supplement company, the reason I did it is I wanted to make the best nutrients available for my patients, for... Read More