{"id":2371,"date":"2010-10-08T14:28:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2010-10-08T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:30:07","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/2371","title":{"rendered":"Pill Popper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpfr.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Road-Runners2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dpfr.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Road-Runners2-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of the aging runners of Dark Peak may have been tempted to take glucosamine or chondroitin but is it effective?\u00a0 A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/341\/bmj.c4675\">paper in the BMJ<\/a> combined the results of many small studies comparing pain after placebo or supplement to provide a more definitive answer.\u00a0 They found that it was no better than placebo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But does this mean it didn\u2019t work?\u00a0 Well no, \u00a0placebos do work very well.\u00a0 Cyclists who were told they had been given caffeine- but weren\u2019t -were able to exercise almost as intensely as those who had been given caffeine according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/caffeine-trick-made-cyclists-pedal-faster-2071289.html\">study<\/a> presented at the British Association of Sports Science.\u00a0 Will glucosamine and chondrotin still work if we no longer believe in them- possibly not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Many of the aging runners of Dark Peak may have been tempted to take glucosamine or chondroitin but is it effective?\u00a0 A recent paper in the BMJ combined the results of many small studies comparing pain after placebo or supplement to provide a more definitive answer.\u00a0 They found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}