A team of academic research institutions led by Dr. Elizabeth Kantor from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan crunched the numbers - any use of Glucosamine in conjunction with Chondroitin lowered the risk of colon and rectal cancer by up to 25%.

Researchers at the School of Comprehensive Rehabilitation, Osaka Prefecture University in Japan studied 91 elderly subjects who were fragile and institutionalized in nursing homes for a three month period. Vitamin D cut the incidence of falling by 43%.