10 Reasons Women On GLP-1s Are Adding Type II Collagen For Joint Pain

There is a name for it. Cartilage collapse.

Cartilage is the cushion between your bones. It is the only thing stopping bone grinding on bone every time you take a step.

It has never had to take that impact alone. The muscle around the joint absorbs the shock before it ever reaches the cushion. That is the job muscle does that nobody tells you about.

When the weight came off, you did not only lose fat. Roughly a quarter of what you lost was lean mass. That is the padding that was protecting the cushion.

Meanwhile the material to repair it stopped arriving

Eating less is exactly how the shot works. It is also the lowest protein intake of your adult life, and collagen is built from protein.

Then there is menopause. Estrogen is part of what holds collagen in place, so as it falls, the collagen goes with it. Women lose roughly 30% of their skin collagen in the five years afterwards, and skin is only the collagen you can see. Your requirement went up, not down.

And age is quietly doing its own thing underneath all of it. Your collagen production has been slowing since your mid twenties.

You cannot lift the cushion back. You have to feed it.

The cushion is roughly 60% collagen. Tendon, the tissue tying muscle to bone, is roughly 80% collagen. The cushion and the padding that protects it are made of the same material.

Which means the fix is not another painkiller and it is not more effort. It is raw material, arriving daily, while your own intake cannot cover it.

That is the half of the equation nobody handed you. Every instruction you were given was demand-side. Move more, lift heavier, do the PT. Nobody addressed supply.

And the little Type II out there was cooked before it ever reached you

Almost all collagen gets heated at the factory so it stirs into a cold drink without clumping.

For the skin kind that is fine. It is meant to be broken down.

For your knee it ruins it. Type II only works while it is still whole, because your body has to recognise the shape of it. Heat it and there is nothing left to recognise.

So ours is never heated. That is the whole difference, and it is why you cannot just grab any tub with Type II on the front.

You can test it against us in 8 weeks, with a number you write down yourself

You have two abandoned bags in a cupboard already. You have every right to assume this is the third.

So do not take our word for it. Take a measurement.

Go for a walk today and count how many steps you get before your joints start to complain. Write that number on the fridge. One scoop a day, then retest at week eight. If the number has not gone up, email us and send the bag back. It can be completely empty. We refund every penny.