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> lubricating my joints And I thought robots weren't allowed on HN. /s But seriously how do you do that exactly? Take some olive oil and inject it into your k

> lubricating my joints And I thought robots weren't allowed on HN. /s But seriously how do you do that exactly? Take some olive oil and inject it into your knees?

RangerScience 3y ago
AFAIK, movement. Like, there’s parts of your elbow that get pretty much zilch for blood flow. Movement literally gets the fluids “pumped” in those places. Also, something-something your body will produce the right fluids when “prompted”, just like it’ll grow muscle when “prompted”.
- moffkalast 3y ago
  TIL, interesting.
esperent 3y ago
Exercise increases synovial fluid production. Synovial fluid is joint lubricant. So exercising does literally lubricate the joints. Olive oil is also potentially beneficial for joint lubrication when combined with exercise according to this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0955286313001514 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09552... However, you probably shouldn't inject it. A more normal way of getting things like this into your body is to eat them.
- alex_lav 3y ago
  Worth adding high doses of fish oil have the same results. This is common in strength training and athletic communities. I take handful each morning and feel great.
  - wredue 3y ago
    The fish burps aren’t my favourite thing.
    - wafflemaker 3y ago
      My wife would literally get sick from fishburps. But there's an easy solution, she just switched to special capsules* from Möllers that dissolve in the intestines instead of the stomach, which completely solves fishburps. I just chug this stuff right from the bottle, but when the price is the same I buy lemon tasting tran, which gives lemon burps instead. * can't find any special name on the packaging. The info about anti burp system is easy to miss. This is just one of many types of capsules produced by Möllers, anti burps are elongated and slightly cloudy, if it helps.
    - Tade0 3y ago
      My main issue is that I hail from a long line of men who get the fish all over their shirt and pants when trying to get it out of the can/jar.
oarfish 3y ago
I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Even though technically you might be "lubricating" joints if the sibling comment is to be believed, but there's still the supposition that you can reliably feel this process and that that in fact is causative for your improvement, which is overly mechanistic and reductionist.
- andreareina 3y ago
  It's downvoted because it's low-key a personal attack and it's excessively dismissive. It shuts down conversation. Maybe the G*P literally meant lubrication and not just the subjective feeling I'm sure we all have had of movement easing further movement. The effect is real even if the explanation is not literally correct. Is the GP also going to scoff at calling alcohol a social lubricant?

> lubricating my joints And I thought robots weren't allowed on HN. /s But seriously how do you do that exactly? Take some olive oil and inject it into your knees?

RangerScience 3y ago

AFAIK, movement. Like, there’s parts of your elbow that get pretty much zilch for blood flow. Movement literally gets the fluids “pumped” in those places. Also, something-something your body will produce the right fluids when “prompted”, just like it’ll grow muscle when “prompted”.

moffkalast 3y ago
TIL, interesting.

esperent 3y ago

Exercise increases synovial fluid production. Synovial fluid is joint lubricant. So exercising does literally lubricate the joints. Olive oil is also potentially beneficial for joint lubrication when combined with exercise according to this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0955286313001514 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09552... However, you probably shouldn't inject it. A more normal way of getting things like this into your body is to eat them.

alex_lav 3y ago
Worth adding high doses of fish oil have the same results. This is common in strength training and athletic communities. I take handful each morning and feel great.
- wredue 3y ago
  The fish burps aren’t my favourite thing.
  - wafflemaker 3y ago
    My wife would literally get sick from fishburps. But there's an easy solution, she just switched to special capsules* from Möllers that dissolve in the intestines instead of the stomach, which completely solves fishburps. I just chug this stuff right from the bottle, but when the price is the same I buy lemon tasting tran, which gives lemon burps instead. * can't find any special name on the packaging. The info about anti burp system is easy to miss. This is just one of many types of capsules produced by Möllers, anti burps are elongated and slightly cloudy, if it helps.
  - Tade0 3y ago
    My main issue is that I hail from a long line of men who get the fish all over their shirt and pants when trying to get it out of the can/jar.

oarfish 3y ago

I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Even though technically you might be "lubricating" joints if the sibling comment is to be believed, but there's still the supposition that you can reliably feel this process and that that in fact is causative for your improvement, which is overly mechanistic and reductionist.

andreareina 3y ago
It's downvoted because it's low-key a personal attack and it's excessively dismissive. It shuts down conversation. Maybe the G*P literally meant lubrication and not just the subjective feeling I'm sure we all have had of movement easing further movement. The effect is real even if the explanation is not literally correct. Is the GP also going to scoff at calling alcohol a social lubricant?