Glucosamine may reduce overall death rates as effectively as regular exercise, study suggests - Science Daily

Glucosamine supplements may reduce overall mortality about as well as regular exercise does, according to a new epidemiological study from West Virginia University.

"Does this mean that if you get off work at five o'clock one day, you should just skip the gym, take a glucosamine pill and go home instead?" said Dana King, professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine, who led the study.

King and Xiang merged these data with 2015 mortality figures.

King himself takes glucosamine/chondroitin, one of the most common formulations of glucosamine supplements.

"One day I asked the other cyclists if they took glucosamine, and everyone did.

He explains that because this is an epidemiological study -- rather than a clinical trial -- it doesn't offer definitive proof that glucosamine/chondroitin makes death less likely.