What is MSM? It's an important question to be asking when you wish to find ways to overcome joint and muscle pain without risks, as can happen with NSAIDs.

NSAIDs, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or pain killing drugs, have a known history of side-effects and health risks – some more some less. And some worsened conditions over time. They are known for killing pain, not healing.

MSM, on the other hand, has been found to be a good anti-inflammatory agent and safely reduces pain.

What is MSM

Methylsulfonylmethane – understandably, you will have to chew on this a while before you can swallow, but now you can better understand why it is simply stated as: MSM.

MSM is a rich source of sulfur.

Now you're asking: “Why do I want a rich source of sulfur? ...because your body likes it? No, huh. OK, here is why.

Sulfur is a component of all your cells. It is involved in helping cells breathe, assuring the efficiency of exchanging oxygen through your cells – critical to each cell's life and you. This, in itself, makes it very important.

As a mineral in the body, it is third in abundance, after calcium and phosphorus.

About half of your body's sulfur supply in found in your muscles. It is abundant in connective tissues – collagen, cartilage, and bone.

It affects the health of your hair, skin, bones, and brain making it, at times, referred to as the “Beauty Mineral.”

Sulfur helps the body rid itself of toxins, preventing inflammation and pain, and leaving you with a feeling of being rejuvenated.

If this answers your question well enough on sulfur, then lets get back to what is MSM.

MSM is an odorless, tasteless, white, water soluble, crystalline solid when in its purified form.

In foods, it is found in small amounts in fruits and vegetables, nuts, fish, eggs, even rainwater, much the same as sources of sulfur. Sadly, once processed in foods, it is lost. This puts many people MSM deficient.

As a sulfur donor, many of its characteristics and functions will be similar to that of sulfur as previously mentioned.

What is MSM, may be looked at in a more practical manner by looking at the benefits of MSM. It is sometimes easier to understand what something is, by understanding how it works for you. Most often asking what something is, is also asking “what's in it for me?”To give you some idea, then, this list may help:

It is an anti-inflammatory agent. This means is will reduce pain and also help you avoid pain.

As a powerful detoxifier it cleans waste and toxic substances that accumulate in your body when there is stress, inflammation, infection, and disease. This means better healing and better health.

It is known to give relief to those suffering rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and osteoarthritis of the knee.

It improves your energy.

You may also want to know...that while MSM has many rewarding merits, those merits can be amplified and enhanced by putting it in combinations with other building blocks of joint and muscle to assure the desired joint and muscle relief that is so important to you.

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Benefits of MSM

Ways MSM can help for joint and muscle relief.