I believe in staying healthy the natural way. Even if you're healthy, the doctors will still find something wrong with you. I have never been in the hospital (KNOCK ON WOOD) for an illness. I have had a few injuries like falling 20 feet out of a pecan tree while grafting it. I went to the Dr for x-rays just to make sure there were no broken bones--turned out none. This happened in 1994 & in 2004 my back started bothering me with severe pain making me fall to the ground (probably arthritis). I did research on the PC & found MSM with Vitamin C will relieve arthritis. In Feb 2012, I started taking 6 capsules of 1000mg each with 500 mg of Vit C daily. 3 months later my pain was gone & I still take them today. MSM is natural sulfur from plants & most people are deficient in it unless you eat lots of cabbage & broccoli. Believe it or not, but a Dr discovered MSM. If buying MSM make sure to buy the American made one that shows <span style="text-decoration: underline;">OptiMSM</span> on the bottle. Below are very interesting sites: <br /> www.msm-info.com<br /> www.arthritis-msm-supplements.com/why_msm_supplements.htm<br /> www.cancertutor.com/index.html<br /> www.iherb.com **THIS IS WHERE I FOUND CHEAPER MSM THAT IS AMERICAN MADE.