A sports Dr told me to take minerals. He was a customer at work and very arrogant so he didn't explain anything to me. So I remembered my friend told me that her grandmother took Alfalfa and it helped her arthritis so I researched it and lo and behold it's loaded with minerals! Whst I did was: I took 25 (yes 25!) alfalfa pills a day for about 1 week (10 in the morn 10 in the evening 5 at dinner) then took 5-10 a day after that and my tendonitis healed. I do not need it any longer unless I spend hours typng. That was about 15 years ago.