Why do your joints still hurt?

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If you've typed any of these into Google at 11pm, this check is for you.

8 questions. By the end you'll know what the cushion in your joints is made of, and whether what's in your cupboard can reach it.

It's Type II. The one nobody sells you.

Nearly everyone picks Type I & III, because it's on the front of every bag. It does lovely things for skin and hair. It goes nowhere near the cushion in your knees.

Correct. You're in the minority.

Nearly everyone picks Type I & III, because it's on the front of every bag. Your cartilage is Type II. Different material, different job.

🦴 Quick one

What's actually hurting

Between the bones in every joint sits a white pad called cartilage. The cushion. Bone on bone is this, worn thin.

It's mostly water held in a mesh of collagen. Thin mesh, flat cushion. That's why you keep hearing collagen and joints in one sentence.

⚠️ The catch

Collagen isn't one thing

Your body uses different kinds for different jobs.

✨Type I & IIISkin, hair, nails. Most of the aisle.
🦵Type IICartilage. The cushion in your knees.
🔥 Second catch

Type II has to stay whole

Most collagen is heated and broken down so it dissolves. Cooked Type II is Type II your body no longer recognises. The word on the label is undenatured.

Two things to check on your bag: does it name a type, and is it the joint one. Go and get it.

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Putting your answers together…

Your result
Worst joint
Going on for
Worst when
Your label says

It didn't name a type. That's the answer.

Brands using whole Type II put it on the front, in bold, because it's the expensive one. No type on the label almost always means Type I & III. You've been feeding your face and starving your knees.

Type I & III. Exactly what it says.

A real product doing a real job. Skin, hair, nails. Just not the material your cartilage is made from. The bag told you so the whole time.

Type II is on there. Now check the dose.

Type II shows up on plenty of labels at a token amount near the bottom. The research on undenatured Type II ran at 40mg. Hold your bag against that number.

Good. You get to skip what everyone else wasted two years on.

Most of the aisle is Type I & III. People take it for years and wonder why their knees never got the memo. Your cartilage is Type II.

Same joints. Two different mornings.

Today

  • Ten minutes before you move properly
  • One hand on the rail, every time
  • You work out how you'll get back up first

Described later

  • Up at the first alarm
  • The stairs are just stairs
  • Down on the floor and back up
You told us you'd quietly stopped . Nobody can promise a date for getting that back. But there's a reason it stopped, and half of it you can still do something about.

What customers describe. Not a promise, and not typical of everyone.

More Than Collagen
The bag that names the type

More Than Collagen

What 50,000+ people put in their morning coffee.

  • 🦵
    Whole, undenatured Type II at 40mg. The research amount.
  • ✨
    A full dose of Type I & III. Both jobs covered.
  • 🍊
    Vitamin C and hyaluronic acid. The cofactors it needs.
  • ☕
    One scoop, unflavoured. Into the cup you already pour.
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Margaret H.
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I had the wrong one for three years

My old tub said Type I & III in tiny letters. Six weeks on this and I'm not doing the morning shuffle.

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Denise R.
Verified buyer · United States
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The stairs stopped being a decision

Nothing for a month, like they said. Then I walked down without touching the rail.

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Carol W.
Verified buyer · United States
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Down on the floor with my granddaughter

And back up without thinking about it first. Third bag.

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