10 Health Benefits of MSM
Due to its many biological advantages, there is a great number of ways that MSM can help the body. Here’s just 10 of the ways MSM can help the human body.
Osteoarthritis and Inflammation
Short term scientific studies showed that MSM had a minimal effect on joint pain but more long term studies (12+ weeks) showed significant health effects. Some short term studies also proved positive. MSM is not taken in large doses so must be seen as a lifestyle change rather than a short term fix.
Since sulfur is a major component in your body, its presence via MSM can help form better internal tissues as well as promote lowered inflammation. It facilitates normal cellular activity by releasing unwanted byproducts and excess fluids in the body.
Detoxification
MSM makes your cells more permeable, allowing better flow of materials between them. Your body then naturally removes toxins and absorbs water and nutrition. MSM is a calcium phosphate dissolver. Many degenerative diseases are composed of this and other bad calciums.
Hair and Nail Health
MSM as a molecule contains nearly every element of collagen and keratin, bodily elements comprised of amino acids. Many people have reported better hair strength and thickness and quicker nail growth while taking the supplement.
Skin Health
Skin is made up of mostly collagen and skin begins to wrinkle and dry as collagen levels drop with age. MSM, with the help of Vitamin C, can help build new tissue by normalizing collagen production and improve the bonds between the skin cells. By making the cells more permeable, it helps skin retain more water and “plump” up.
Digestion
MSM helps rebuild the lining of the digestive tract as it improves the body’s ability to digest food more quickly. It’s been used to help the symptoms of leaky gut syndrome by preventing particles from leaving the tract and getting into the bloodstream. It has also been used in topical treatment for hemorrhoids, which is just another form of inflammation it can help reduce.
Energy Levels
Your body spends up to 80% of its metabolic energy on digestion so the rest of your body only gets 20% of the energy you take in. By improving digestion and reducing the power-suck of inflammation, a great side effect of MSM is your body has energy it’s now no longer spending on maintenance. With increased permeability of cells, your body can also absorb that energy faster.
Antioxidants
Sulfur plays a crucial role in the production of glutathione, a critical antioxidant that the body produces that neutralizes free radicals and reactive oxygen compounds. Sulfur is a major component of glutathione and MSM works well to deliver that element in its production. While MSM is not an antioxidant, it helps the body produce them more efficiently.
Allergies
Again, inflammation is a manifestation of many sufferings of the body. Allergies can cause some of the most powerful, fast and harmful swelling known to medicine. While MSM is not meant to be used for allergic reactions on the short term, it helps reduce inflammation into a more manageable form. Some have even experienced loss of allergic symptoms while taking it, though more scientific tests would be needed to confirm this. Allergies also vary extremely between patients so results vary in this field of medicine.
Muscle Pain
You will find that many bodybuilders online will recommend the use of MSM for muscle pain. A pilot study by the Miami Research Associates found noticeable decreases in fatigue and muscle pain with just a few grams of MSM. Soreness after working out was also reduced. You will find many body=builders who recommend it from personal experience.
Cancer Treatment
First of all, we will not make claims that MSM can cure cancer. It simply doesn’t but it can do some amazing things to your body when used in conjunction with Vitamin C. First, it helps prevent and remove the buildup of lactic acid in the bloodstream (a symptom of cancer that is often tied to the actual death of cancer.) MSM also helps clean up other microbes in the system that cancer allows in, bolstering the immune system. Overall cleaner blood flow can help facilitate additional treatments of the cancer.
March 4, 2017 @ 1:20 am
We have helped many people with MSM + C, from newborns to elderly, for a large variety of health issues/symptoms.
April 19, 2017 @ 4:34 am
Roy is right. MSM supports all of the body symptoms listed above. The average person needs 16 grams of MSM a day. Most people get less than 8 grams a day through their food supply. There have been double blind randomized studies on long term use of MSM with patients ingesting up to 6 grams a day. No adverse effects were noted. Additionally changes were recorded on overall disease status which indicates to me that the inflammation effect on disease may diminish as inflammation diminishes. Of course I have always believed the concept that acid from stress, diet, lack of spring water, not enough sleep, injury and other things cause acid in the body which in turn causes inflammation which in turn causes more acid which in turn reduces the ability of the body to restore itself to balance. By providing basic nutrients to the body we can assist the body in restoring balance. And also by assisting the body in raising pH we do the same thing. NHC products are designed based on patents that take this into account along with formulations that make them more bioavailable to the body for maximum use. And think about this. If you improve diet, sleep, exercise, drink good water and take the right supplements designed to raise your pH, improve electrolyte levels and provide the body with the alkaline forming minerals and other materials the body needs to restore balance, HOW GOOD WILL THIS BE FOR YOUR HEALTH? I believe that by doing these things, and our believe in the Lord who has provided us with all of the good things we need, we can change so much that is going on in our bodies.
October 31, 2017 @ 5:03 pm
How fast does one generally see better digestion with this supplement?
November 4, 2017 @ 3:40 pm
It takes a few weeks to see noticeable results but I’ve seen many people drop their acid reflux medicine or Tums after getting on MSM.