mineral
Boron
Trace mineral supporting bone health, brain function, and steroid hormone metabolism.
What it’s good for
Boron for Joint Pain
Evidence4 studies · 3 supporting · 0 against
5 safety notes
Lowers inflammatory markers and helps your body use calcium, magnesium and vitamin D.
Dose: 3–9 mg
Tested as: calcium fructoborate (FruiteX-B)
Boron for Back Pain
Not verified1 study · 0 supporting · 0 against
5 safety notes
Why it gets suggested: Thought to calm inflammation around the spine and support bone density there.
Dose: 3–6 mg
Why we could not verify it: Boron clinical trial evidence concentrates on three areas: osteoarthritis joint pain (a 1994 double-blind pilot study of 6 mg/day for 8 weeks in 20 OA patients by Rex Newnham; not a numbered DOI); rheumatoid arthritis inflammatory markers (calcium fructoborate and sodium tetraborate studies); and primary dysmenorrhea pain (PMID 25906949, a triple-blind RCT of 10 mg/day boron). None of these target back pain or lumbar pain. The PubMed search for 'boron supplementation back pain humans' returned zero results. The NIH ODS Boron health professional fact sheet does not list back pain as a studied outcome. Web searches across general medical literature and Cochrane did not surface any trial — rand