I read this topic on here about 3 months ago and decided to give it a try. In the last few years my wrists and certain finger joints began to ache 24/7. I'm in my early 50's and always have been very fit, active, and health conscious and know my body very well. I also have suffered from osteoarthritis in my lower back for decades due to injury.
I started with 1/4 teaspoon of borax in my morning shake after workout. Drank my normal 2 litres of water by lunch and then added another 1/4 teaspoon to plain water for my afternoon 1.5 litres.
Within a week my wrists and fingers were about 60-70% better and I could feel something happening in my back and knees. At first there was some different areas of mild discomfort (and this is expected as the calcium deposits break up) and now they are pain free after about 3 months. There are many other positive health effects with boron supplementation as well as antiviral, anti-fungal plus anti-tumour properties. Check it out:
Does anyone know what the side effects are to taking Borax? I use it to kill ants so I don't think it would be good for us humans. How would you even know of the side effects down the road. Not sure I'm willing to digest it. Perhaps soak the arthritic area but not ingesting it. Thanks anyways for the suggestion.
Borax is such fine powder, the bugs crawl through it and it suffocates them because they cant breathe through their abdomen anymore. Source: Florida Man
Also ants etc. cant pass gas and it creates gas and they explode/die. That is what I heard and why I used it against ants
If I recall correctly, borax is approx. 1/5 as toxic as table salt. You can look it up in toxicity tables.
It’s less toxic that salt.