Hip Joint Pain Relief Significant With Boron – No Pain At All

For pain relief the mineral Boron is great for hip joint pain relief, knee joint pain relief, and shoulder joint pain relief. For many, boron can remove the need for pain relief medication altogether. A type of supplement called ionic boron works exceedingly well and such small doses are needed, making ionic boron very inexpensive. (See how to use ionic boron below.) Other more common forms of boron supplements like boron citrate, boron picolinate, and tetra boron probably work, but if they don’t try ionic boron.

Boron Works So Good You May Not Even Have To Take It

Boron helps with or removes all joint pain. To a lesser extent, boron also helps with pain from strained tendons. It’s necessary to understand that your body will likely “fill up” on boron at some time when using ionic boron, making your normal dose too much. Too much boron can cause a headache (or head pressure), knuckles to feel sprained or swell or become tender causing pain. So at some point you will likely have to change to taking boron once a week or once a month or only when joint pain occurs. I reached this point after 3 years on 1/32 teaspoon of ionic boron a day (on the label the concentration is “50 mg/L” (which is 50ppm)). The filled up point won’t ever occur by trying to rush it with large doses of boron.

Food Sources Of Boron

Fruits, leafy vegetables, nuts, and legumes are rich in boron (unless soil is low in boron). Avocados, raisins, and other nuts are also high in boron. Meat, fish, and dairy products are poor sources of boron because boron does not accumulate in the tissue of animals.

Nuts are very high in boron. If you eat natural peanut butter (i.e. Smucker’s brand) nearly daily, you may not need a supplement of boron.

Ionic Boron

Ionic boron is microscopic small portions of boron in water and has no taste at all. The portions of boron are so small they easily pass right through the cell membrane – kind of like shooting a BB through a chain link fence. Ionic boron is used directly by the cell without any digestion involved. Ionic boron is the type of boron in plant food.

How Much Ionic Boron?

The amount of ionic boron needed for hip joint pain relief and joint pain relief in general (using an ionic boron supplement, labeled 50ppm or 50mg/L), is only 1/32nd to 1/16th of a teaspoon every day. Type in “1/32 tsp” into your favorite search engine and you’ll see three or four places that sell such small measuring spoons. The small spoons come in a set of three (1/32tsp, 1/16tsp, 1/8tsp) labeled “pinch”, “smidgen”, and “dash”. The label on many, if not all, ionic boron supplements have a “serving size” as 1 tsp. (teaspoon), which is way too much. Use 1/16 tsp every other day for the first week or 10 days and then drop down to 1/32 tsp. Not only will these small doses work better, a bottle of ionic will last 30 times longer. Be certain the lid is kept tight and preferably in the fridge – there’s no chlorine in ionic boron to keep mold from growing, you don’t want mold growing in there. Colloidal boron doesn’t work as well, or at all, according to some. The two main brands of ionic boron are Angstrom and WaterOz.

Boron and Coumadin And Aspirin

One note of caution, boron may cause pain for those with a compression fracture or on Coumadin (Warfarin). Coumadin has a lot of side effects. Doctors love coumadin because it creates a lot of repeat business. Aspirin is a very good alternative – see government link below. If you have a compression fracture and or on Coumadin, and have a fair amount of pain, and already taking boron (check your multi mineral), you may want to stop taking boron and see what happens.

Manganese and Thiamin

Another mineral, manganese, is almost as significant as boron for preventing joint pain and is necessary for tendon health. You can have joint pan relief from boron and still have joint pain from a manganese deficiency. Manganese deficiency also causes sprain pain, especially wrists and ankles. Too much manganese will cause sprain pain without a sprain injury ever occurring. Boron is not a substitute for manganese. Thiamin deficiency increases sensitivity to pain (including tooth ache pain). Try 25mg of thiamin mononitrate (not thiamin HCL-useless) a day. If you drink coffee or tea or eat a lot of raw fish or take Lasix you’ll need more because these make thiamin unusable by the body.

Personal Experience

The cause of the hip joint pain I had was probably caused by pushing the clutch pedal on my car over 15 years, which included 2 new clutches. After I stopped driving a clutch, a lot of the hip joint pain went away, but a few years later the pain came back when sitting or sleeping in certain positions. One day I started taking a supplement of ionic boron because boron is a mineral in the RDA and none of the few foods in my diet contain much boron. Unexpectedly the hip joint pain began to fade 3 or 4 weeks later, and 2 months later I had no hip joint pain at all so long as I kept taking the boron. Today I don’t even have to take boron regularly and the only time I have to take boron for hip joint pain is after shoveling (snow) for more than an hour.