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

You lost the weight and the stairs got worse. There is a name for what happened, it is not aging, and it is not your medication. Once you see it you will stop guessing whether it is the shot, menopause or arthritis.

Kirsten Chick, DPT
Kirsten Chick, DPT Orthopedic Physical Therapist · 4 min read
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They told you losing the weight would take the pressure off your knees. Your doctor, every article, common sense.

You did the hardest thing you have ever done, and the promise did not deliver.

REASON 01

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.

Less protection on top. Same cushion underneath, taking every step.
The joint cushion and the muscle layer protecting it
REASON 02

Take a quarter of the blocks out and the tower does not fall. It wobbles. Then one push.

That is what makes this sneaky. Nothing collapses on the day you lose the weight. The structure just gets less forgiving, and it stops telling you.

Then it is a flight of stairs. A garden. A kerb you stepped off wrong. And your knee reacts like it is twenty years older than you are.

ONE PUSH

Roughly 25% of the weight lost on a GLP-1 is lean mass. Pull a quarter of the blocks out of a tower and it still stands. It just cannot take a knock any more.

Lean mass lost alongside the fat
REASON 03

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.

Three forces, one target. Less coming in, at the precise moment more is needed.
Three forces draining the collagen scaffold
REASON 04

It explains every single thing that did not work

None of them were stupid. Every one of them does a real job, and several genuinely helped.

But the cushion is built from collagen. So is the muscle that was padding it. You lost both, and not one thing on this list puts either back.

That is why they all failed the same way. They were plasters on a knee that had run out of the material it is made of.

The fixes that aim past the joint cushion
REASON 05

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.

Cartilage, the layer every other fix aims past
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REASON 06

There is more than one kind of collagen, and only one of them is your knee

This is the bit that costs women a year.

Collagen is not one thing. Your skin is made of one kind. Your knee is made of a different one. They are not the same, and one does not turn into the other.

Almost every tub on the shelf is the skin kind. Skin, hair, nails. It is genuinely good at that job.

Your knee is Type II. It is the cushion. And most tubs do not have a single gram of it.

You did not fail. The label did.
Type I and III on the label versus Type II in cartilage
REASON 07

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.

Whole Type II beside heated, broken down collagen
REASON 08

The bone half nobody talks about

This one matters if what actually scares you is not the ache. It is ending up breakable.

You lose bone at the same time you lose muscle. Less muscle means you are more likely to go down. Thinner bone means it costs you more when you do.

And almost nothing sold for joints does anything about the bone.

So we built one scoop that covers all of it.

Both kinds of collagen. The vitamin C your body needs to actually use them. Vitamin D3, K2 and calcium for the bone. And two more for the swelling. Fourteen months to fit it all into one scoop.

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REASON 09

You are inside the window where this is still cheap to fix

Not a scare tactic. Just the arithmetic nobody has done for you.

If nothing changes

  1. In 6 monthsThe ibuprofen stops being for bad days and becomes a routine.
  2. In a yearYou have quietly stopped doing the things that hurt, so it all gets weaker.it compounds
  3. In 3 yearsYou are the one who waits at the bottom of the stairs.
  4. In 5 yearsA new knee costs $30,000 to $50,000, and $3,000 to $8,000 of it is yours even with insurance. Plus three months of your life.and a revision clock starts
  5. If the weight comes backIt comes back as fat on a smaller frame. You paid for this once. Now you are paying twice.
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If you start today

  1. Week 1One scoop in your morning drink. That is the whole job.nothing else changes
  2. Week 4 to 6The first twenty minutes of the day stop being a negotiation.
  3. Week 8You go down the stairs without thinking about it first.retest your step count here
  4. Month 3You get on the floor with a grandchild and back up, and the only thing in your head is the kid.
  5. A year from nowYou are the one still carrying things, not the one being helped.
  6. Cost: about $48 a monthYou are already paying $300 to $600 for the shot.
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You are not reading this at seventy with a walker. You are reading it while the tissue is still there to protect, which is the only time any of this is easy.

REASON 10

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.

Worst case you are out nothing but eight weeks you were going to spend stiff anyway.
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★★★★★Stairs one at a time was my normal. Now I come down them like a normal person and my knees keep quiet.
Gill · 6 weeks
★★★★★Week four I put my socks on standing up. I did not cry, but close.
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★★★★★My hands worried me most. Jar lids, toothpaste caps, the dog's leash. They are all mine again.
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★★★★★I'm 45. HRT never touched the joint part. Six weeks on this and I get out of bed like a normal person.
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Straight answers

No. It is food derived protein and micronutrients. Nothing to stop, nothing to switch, no competition with your medication. Your prescription handled the weight. This is aimed at the body underneath it. Mention it at your next appointment as you would anything else you add.

What you bought was almost certainly Type I and III, formulated for skin and hair. Cartilage is Type II. Turn the old bag around, and if there is no whole, undenatured Type II on that label then nothing in it was ever aimed at your knee.

Because estrogen is part of what holds collagen in place. There are estrogen receptors in cartilage, tendon and ligament, so as estrogen drops the collagen in that tissue drops with it. The most cited figure is roughly 30% of skin collagen lost in the first five years after menopause, and skin is just the collagen you can see. Your requirement went up at the same time your intake went down.

Nothing in the first two weeks, and we would rather tell you that now than have you quit at week three feeling misled. Morning stiffness is usually the first thing to shift, somewhere around week four to six. Stairs, floors and walking distance tend to land at two to three months.

Each bag is 13 servings, one scoop a day. The eight week test needs 56 servings, so the 3+3 bundle is the one that covers it properly with a buffer. The smaller bundles are a fair way to start, but you will need to reorder before the eight weeks are up.

One scoop into whatever you are already drinking. It mixes clean, no capsules to swallow on a nauseous morning, no extra meal, no appetite required.

Anyone wanting fast pain relief, because this is not a painkiller. Anyone already scheduled for joint replacement. Anyone with inflammatory or autoimmune arthritis expecting it to treat the underlying disease. And vegetarians and vegans, because collagen is animal derived.

Email us within 60 days and we refund every penny. The bag can be completely empty. Nothing to post back, no form, no reason required.

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Linda Doyle Six months of glucosamine. Two bottles of turmeric. Nothing. My daughter found this and I rolled my eyes, then by week ten I was on the floor with my granddaughter and got up without thinking about it. That's the part I love. It was normal.
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Bev Marchetti Linda how long before you noticed anything? I'm 3 weeks in and starting to wonder
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Linda Doyle Honestly nothing for the first fortnight. Mornings were the first thing to shift for me, around week 5. Stick with it.
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Gloria Mendel An hour of morning stiffness down to about ten minutes by month three. I'm on Zepbound and nobody warned me my joints would get worse after losing 60lb, not better. Wish I'd known about the muscle thing a year ago.
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Victoria Mears I went to Spain for two weeks and left the bag on the kitchen counter. By day nine my knees were talking to me again. I didn't really believe it was doing anything until I stopped.
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Sharron Keeley My husband noticed before I did. He said I'd stopped making the noise getting out of a chair
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Rosa Jarrett Kneeling in the garden and getting back up without grabbing the fence. That's it. That's the review.
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Jean Hollis My hands were the thing that frightened me. They used to feel like rust in the morning, like they needed oiling before they would open properly. I am making tea at six now without thinking about it.
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Ellen Faraday Nobody talks about the sleep part. I used to wake at 3am every single time I rolled onto that hip. It stopped somewhere around week five and I did not even notice until my husband pointed out I had slept through.
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Carol Bright In March I could not open a jam jar. My rings fit again too, which I was not expecting and cannot explain.
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Denise Rowntree I am 61 and down 54lb on Mounjaro. Everyone congratulated me and nobody warned me the stairs would get harder. Reading this was the first time any of it made sense.
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Pauline Ashworth Does anyone know if you can take this with HRT? My GP was not much help.
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Margaret Whitlock Pauline I am on HRT and have taken it alongside since February, no issues at all. Worth asking your own doctor though. HRT never touched the joint part for me, that is why I looked for something else.
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Nina Rashford My daughter noticed before I did. She said mum, you came up the drive without stopping. I had not even registered that I used to stop.
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These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. More Than Collagen is a dietary supplement and is not a substitute for medical advice. Speak to your healthcare provider about persistent joint pain, and before adding any supplement alongside prescription medication. Customer results shown are individual experiences and are not typical.

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