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7 Reasons Females With Osteoarthritis Knee Pain Are Adding UC-II

You have the drawer full of things that were supposed to stop the knee pain. What nobody explained is what osteoarthritis is actually doing inside your knee, and why every one of those things aimed straight past it.

Kirsten Chick, DPT
Kirsten Chick, DPT Orthopedic Physical Therapist · 2 min read
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They told you it was osteoarthritis in your knee, handed you the ibuprofen, and said come back when the pain is bad enough to talk about a new knee.

You did everything in between. The knee still aches on every stair.

REASON 01

Osteoarthritis is quietly drying out the fluid that cushions your knee, and a dry knee stops feeding itself.

Inside your knee there is a thin layer of fluid. It is the oil your knee runs on, and it is what lets it glide instead of grind. Osteoarthritis thins it, and as it dries out the cushion goes with it. That grinding is the ache you feel on the stairs.

Your knee cartilage has no blood supply. The only way it gets fed is by soaking up that fluid every time you move. So when the fluid goes, the cushion does not just lose its glide. It starts to starve, and it is roughly 60% collagen.

That is not your knee wearing out on its own. That is a knee running dry.

Your knee is not old. It is dry.
A knee with fluid beside a knee that has run dry
REASON 02

Three things are draining that fluid at the same time, and you cannot switch off a single one of them.

Menopause first. Estrogen helps hold collagen in place and helps the knee stay hydrated, so as it falls, both go with it.

Then osteoarthritis itself, thinning the fluid inside the knee. And age, quietly underneath both, since your body has been making less collagen since your mid twenties.

Three taps open on one small reservoir. You cannot turn them off. You can only refill faster than they drain.

Three forces, one knee.
Knee fluid supply falling across menopause, osteoarthritis and age
REASON 03

It explains why every single thing you tried for the pain fell short, including the ones that half worked.

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

But the problem is a knee running dry and a cushion that has stopped being fed. Not one thing on this list puts fluid or collagen back into the knee.

They were treating the pain coming off a dry knee, not the dryness. Tap each one.

Every fix aiming past the joint
Every fix she tried, lined up

Side by side, what each one is actually built to do

Every column does something real. Only one is aimed at the fluid and the cushion inside your knee.

✓ does this ~ partly, or indirectly ✕ not what it is for
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Aimed at the fluid that cushions the knee ✓ ✕ ✕ ~ ✕
Supplies the UC-II collagen cartilage is built from ✓ ✕ ✕ ✕ ✕
Helps calm the swelling and ache around the knee ✓ ✓ ✓ ~ ✕
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REASON 04

Your knee cartilage is built from UC-II collagen. The bag you bought was Type I and III.

This is the bit that costs women a year. Collagen is not one thing. Your skin is Type I and III. The cushion in your knee needs UC-II, and one does not turn into the other.

Almost every bag on the shelf is the skin kind, because that is what sells. Turn yours around. If the label says Type I and III, nothing in it was ever aimed at your knee.

You did not fail. The label did.
Type I and III on the label versus UC-II in cartilage
★★★★★ I had two bags of the skin kind in the cabinet. Turned one over. Type I and III, exactly like this says. Eight weeks on the right one and I go down the stairs to the laundry without holding the rail. The knee ache that used to follow me to bed is gone most nights.
Tara · 8 weeks
REASON 05

You took collagen and your knees still hurt. It was the wrong kind. Here is the right one, and the number behind it.

Almost all of the joint collagen on the shelf is cooked. Heat breaks it into fragments, and it only works while it is whole, because your body has to recognize the shape of it.

Ours is UC-II. Undenatured, never heated, so it survives your stomach and reaches the gut intact, where the immune system reads it and eases off your knee cartilage. And the dose is small on purpose. 40mg a day, the amount used in the research.

Heated collagen breaking down beside whole UC-II passing through the stomach
Randomized trial · knee osteoarthritis · pain and stiffness scores (WOMAC) · 90 days More than double the result, at a sixtieth of the dose.
UC-II · 40mg a day33% better
Glucosamine + chondroitin · 2,700mg a day14% better
REASON 06

A dry knee gets angry, and that is the pain you feel today. So there is more in the scoop than collagen, and MSM is in there for right now.

Feeding the cartilage is the long game. The pain is today. So MSM goes in the same scoop to help calm the swelling and ache, with curcumin for the same job from a second angle, hyaluronic acid to help the knee hold water, and vitamin C, because without it your body cannot build collagen out of anything you give it.

It is why most women tell us the ache is the first thing to ease, weeks before the stiffness does.

The scoop cooling an inflamed joint
★★★★★ The pain after a day on my feet was the worst part. Hot, throbbing knees, sitting on the couch with them up. That was the first thing to calm down, around week two. Week four I put my socks on standing up. I did not cry, but close.
Sandra · 4 weeks
Step 1Feed it🦴
UC-II · 40mg

Whole UC-II collagen, never heated, so your body recognizes it and eases off the cushion in your knee.

sothe cartilage starts getting fed again.

sothe stairs stop being something you plan around.

Step 2Cool it🔥
MSM + curcumin

Two natural compounds that help calm the heat and ache coming off a dry knee, from two directions.

sothe pain settles while the collagen does the slow work.

soyou sit through a whole movie without your knee reminding you it is there.

Step 3Oil it💧
Hyaluronic acid

The main ingredient of the joint fluid itself. Helps the joint hold on to its water.

sothe two surfaces glide instead of grind.

sogetting out of the chair stops hurting.

Step 4Build it🍊
Vitamin C + 8g Type I & III

The tool your body needs to assemble any collagen at all, plus material for the tendons around the knee.

sowhat you take actually gets used, instead of passing through.

soyou kneel in the garden and get back up without a hand on the wall.

Step 5Hold it up🦴
D3 · K2 · Calcium

The bone under a thinning cushion is thinning too. This is the half nobody sold you.

sothe frame under the knee stays solid.

soa wobble on the curb stays a wobble, not a fall.

So we built one scoop that covers all of it.

Both kinds of collagen. The vitamin C your body needs to actually use them. Hyaluronic acid for the fluid. MSM and curcumin for the swelling and ache. Vitamin D3, K2 and calcium for the bone. Fourteen months to fit it all into one scoop.

UC-II Multi collagen Vitamin C D3 · K2 · Calcium MSM Hyaluronic acid Astaxanthin Curcumin
More Than Collagen by Balmve
REASON 07

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

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 the muscle around the knee goes too.it compounds
  3. In 3 yearsYou stop kneeling, you stop the stairs, and you are the one who waits at the bottom.
  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.
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If you start today

  1. Week 1One scoop in your morning drink. That is the whole job.
  2. Week 2 to 4The ache after a long day is the first thing most women tell us eases. The mornings follow.retest your number here
  3. Month 3You get on the floor with a grandchild and back up, and the only thing in your head is the kid.
  4. Cost: under a dollar a dayWith today's Buy 1 Get 1 offer. Less than the ibuprofen habit it replaces.
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THE TEST

You can test it against us in 8 weeks, with a number you write down yourself, and send the bag back empty if it fails

You have two abandoned bags in a cabinet already. You have every right to assume this is the third. So do not take our word for it. Take a measurement.

Tomorrow morning, walk down your stairs and give your knee pain a number from 1 to 10. Write that number on the fridge. One scoop a day, then retest at week eight. If the number has not moved, email us and send the bag back. It can be completely empty. We refund every cent.

Worst case you are out nothing but eight weeks you were going to spend in pain anyway.
Handwritten note on a fridge door
★★★★★ I did exactly this. My physical therapist measured my knee bend at 95 degrees in March. In June it was 120. She made me do it twice because she did not believe the first one. I took the stairs up to her office that day.
Margaret W. · 3 months
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Straight answers

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

It is not a treatment for osteoarthritis and we will not pretend it is. What it does is supply the material your knee cushion is built from, in the form your body can recognize, plus what the knee needs to hold on to its fluid, and MSM and curcumin to help calm the swelling. Customers describe the ache easing first, often within a few weeks, and their knees feeling looser and quieter over two to three months. Your doctor stays your doctor.

It is food derived collagen, vitamins and minerals. Nothing to stop, nothing to switch, and it sits alongside HRT, painkillers and anti inflammatories the way any food would. Mention it at your next appointment as you would anything else you add.

The ache is usually the first thing to ease. Most women tell us they notice it after a long day on their feet, somewhere in the first two to four weeks, because the MSM and curcumin get to work on the swelling while the collagen does the slow part. Morning stiffness tends to shift around week four to six. Stairs, kneeling and walking distance tend to land at two to three months.

Anyone wanting the pain gone within the hour, because this is not a painkiller. 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 cent. The bag can be completely empty. Nothing to mail back, no form, no reason required.

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Linda Doyle Six months of glucosamine. Two bottles of turmeric. My knee still throbbed every night. 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 my knee screaming at me. That's the part I love. It was normal.
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Bev Marchetti Linda how long before your knee pain eased? I'm 3 weeks in and the ache after my walks is already less, is that normal?
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Linda Doyle Same for me. The ache after walking went first, around week two or three. The stiff mornings took until week five. Stick with it.
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Gloria Mendel Osteoarthritis in both knees at 58, told to come back when I was ready to talk about surgery. The stabbing on the stairs was the first thing to calm down, inside the first month. Morning stiffness went from an hour to about ten minutes by month three. Nobody said a word about the fluid. Wish I'd read this two years 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 aching on every step again. I didn't really believe it was doing anything until I stopped.
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Jean Hollis My knees were the thing that frightened me. Every morning I felt like the Tin Man, like they needed oiling before I could take a step. I walk to the bathroom at six now without holding the wall.
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Denise Rowntree I am 61. Told to lose weight, take the ibuprofen, and we'll talk about a new knee in a few years. Did the weight, did the ibuprofen, knee still ached and crunched on every step. Reading this was the first time anyone explained what was actually going on in there.
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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 knee or joint pain, and before adding any supplement alongside prescription medication. Customer results shown are individual experiences and are not typical.

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