He went to the pharmacy for a rub for his elbow. He came out with something else.
He went to the pharmacy for a rub for his elbow. He came out with something else.
Jeff Wilson went to the pharmacy for a rub. His elbow had gone at the end of a renovation on the lifestyle block he and Jackie run outside Christchurch. "A lot of manual work, manual lifting," he says. He expected strapping, or a cream. "Anticipating the pharmacy was going to give me some form of strapping, but it wasn't."
The pharmacist had been hearing good reports from customers taking a supplement, and said so.
He wasn't buying it. "I've never taken supplements, be it vitamin C or anything like that. My wife does, but I've never had." He is a self-described workaholic, originally from central London, in New Zealand since 2005, and the kind of man who reads the label looking for the catch. "You look on it and you think, oh crikey, here we go, this is just going to be a money spinner."
He took a bottle anyway. Took it for three days, looking for an instant result. Stopped.
Then Jackie said the line. "Well, you're never going to get rid of the aches and your lack of movement." So he did the ten days properly.
"After seven days, literally seven days, what I couldn't believe was my sleep was better."
The part he didn't go in for
Twenty years ago a motorcycle accident left Jeff with a fully reconstructed left shoulder, forty millimetres shorter than the other arm, and a steel plate down his right leg. "That arm used to wake you up during the night," he says. "As you turn during your sleep, you'd lay funny, and it would wake you up to readjust your body." He had run on about five hours a night for years. He'd stopped thinking of it as a problem. It was just how he slept.
"Since taking the supplement, I usually get a good eight hours, sometimes nine."
Mornings changed too. "Before, you'd get up and the mobility would take you a good half hour. You'd get in the shower and be working the shoulder just to get it back. Now I get up in the morning and I would have had no idea whether I've slept on my shoulder all night or not."
Why it did more than the rub would have
The supplement was Koru Joint, and the reason a capsule reached what a rub for his elbow would not is that it does three jobs at once. Curcumin and boswellia soothe the joint. Vitamin C and glucosamine nourish the cartilage. Chondroitin and hyaluronic acid support the fluid that keeps a joint moving smoothly. A shoulder that has been rebuilt, and an elbow worn by a year of lifting, are usually all three at once.
How the formula works
Soothe
Curcumin and boswellia soothe the joint and support flexibility.
Nourish
Vitamin C and glucosamine nourish the cartilage.
Lubricate
Chondroitin and hyaluronic acid support the synovial fluid that keeps a joint moving smoothly.
Koru Joint is made in Rangiora, New Zealand.
Two capsules a day now. "Dead easy to take," he says. "Hooked on it."
Back on the bikes
He and Jackie cycle a lot. The steel plate, eight bolts, runs from the knee to the hip, and cycling used to remind him of it. "Now, we've just bought some new bikes as well. We've done a few runs out and everything feels good."
He has since taken the bottle to his own GP, who reviewed it. "He's been impressed with the actual product that's in there." He hands bottles to friends now with one instruction: do the seven days. "It's worked for me and it's no placebo."
The bottles are on repeat. If you'd rather pick one up, Koru Joint is in community pharmacies such as Life and Unichem, which is where Jeff found it. You can also order online here, or give the team in Rangiora a call on 0800 99 99 80.
His advice to anyone who has read this far and is still looking for the catch: "You've got ten days to try it. And if it don't work, I'll be so surprised."
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