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7 Reasons Women On GLP-1s Are Switching To Undenatured Type II For Their Knees

You have already tried the obvious things. The ibuprofen, the gels, the PT, the protein shakes, the collagen bag that is still half full in the cupboard. Here is what each one was actually built to do, and the one job none of them were ever asked to do.

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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.

The scale moved. The stairs got worse.

REASON 01

Every single thing you tried was aimed at the pain. Not one of them put material back.

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

But your cushion is roughly 60% collagen, and so is the tissue that was padding it. Nothing on this list puts either one back.

That is why they all failed the same way. Tap each one.

The fixes that aim past the joint cushion

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

Every column does something real. Only one of them is material.

✓ does this ~ partly, or indirectly ✕ not what it is for
More Than Collagen Ibuprofen Cortisone PT Type I & III collagen
Relief this afternoon
Supplies the Type II collagen your cushion is built from
Works with the shot, not against it ~
Meant to be taken every day, for years
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60 day money back guaranteeThe bag can come back empty

REASON 02

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, and one does not turn into the other.

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

Your cushion is Type II. Turn your bag around. If it 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 Type II in cartilage
★★★★★ I had two bags of the skin kind in the cupboard. Turned one over. Type I and III, exactly like this says. Eight weeks on the right one and I am going down the stairs without thinking about it.
Tara · 8 weeks, down 41lb on Mounjaro
REASON 03

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 UC-II. Undenatured, never heated, so it survives your stomach and reaches the gut intact. That is the whole difference, and it is why you cannot just grab any bag with Type II on the front.

Whole Type II beside heated, broken down collagen
REASON 04

40mg of it beat 2,700mg of the thing your doctor did not mind you taking

Glucosamine and chondroitin were the sensible first thing to try, and most women on a GLP-1 have a bottle of one or the other.

In a randomised trial indexed on PubMed, 40mg a day of undenatured Type II improved knee joint scores by 33%. Glucosamine plus chondroitin at 2,700mg a day managed 14%.

More than double the result, at a sixtieth of the dose. Small dose, one scoop, no extra bottles to remember.

Cartilage, the layer every other fix aims past
Randomised trial · knee joint 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 05

The bone half nobody sold you, in the same scoop

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 weight, and almost nothing sold for joints does anything about it. So vitamin D3, K2 and calcium are in here too, with MSM and curcumin for the swelling, hyaluronic acid for the fluid, and vitamin C, because without it your body cannot build collagen out of anything you give it.

Bone density panels
★★★★★ Down 52lb on Zepbound and my knees were the one thing ruining it. Six weeks on this and the first twenty minutes of the day stopped being a negotiation. I am not adding four more bottles to the routine, that was the selling point.
Sandra · 6 weeks
Step 1Feed it🦴
UC-II · 40mg

Whole undenatured Type II, never heated, so your body recognises it.

sothe cushion gets the material it is made of.

sothe stairs stop being something you plan around.

Step 2Cool it🔥
MSM + curcumin

Two natural compounds that calm the heat coming off an angry joint, from two directions.

sothe swelling settles while the collagen does the slow work.

soyou sit through a whole film 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 goes quiet again.

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 joint.

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

sothe protein you can barely manage goes further.

Step 5Hold it up🦴
D3 · K2 · Calcium

You lose bone at the same time you lose weight. This is the half nobody sold you.

sothe frame under the joint stays solid.

soa wobble on the kerb 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. Vitamin D3, K2 and calcium for the bone. Fourteen months to fit it all into one scoop.

Undenatured Type II Multi collagen Vitamin C D3 · K2 · Calcium MSM Hyaluronic acid Astaxanthin Curcumin
More Than Collagen by Balmve
REASON 06

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 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.

If you start today

  1. Week 1One scoop in your morning drink. Nothing else about your routine changes.
  2. Week 4 to 6The first twenty minutes of the day stop being a negotiation.retest your step count 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 dayYou are already paying $300 to $600 a month for the shot.
REASON 07

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 an abandoned collagen bag in the cupboard already. You have every right to assume this is the next one.

So do not take our word for it. Tomorrow morning, time how many minutes your knees take to loosen up, or count the steps you get before they start talking. 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 penny.

Worst case you are out nothing but eight weeks you were going to spend stiff anyway.
Handwritten note held to a fridge door with a magnet
★★★★★ I did exactly this. My physio 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.
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 cushion is Type II, and it only works undenatured. 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.

Yes. It is food derived collagen, vitamins and minerals, one scoop in whatever you already drink. Nothing to stop, nothing to time around the shot. Mention it at your next appointment as you would anything else you add.

One scoop is about 40 calories and it is unflavoured, so most women put it in the coffee or tea they are already having. It is not another meal to get through, which is exactly why we made it a scoop instead of four capsules.

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.

Anyone wanting fast pain relief, 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 penny. The bag can be completely empty. Nothing to post back, no form, no reason required.

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Linda Doyle Down 58lb on Wegovy and thrilled with everything except my knees. Tried the glucosamine, tried the gels, bought a collagen that did 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.
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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 Nobody warned me the knees would be the trade. I was so happy about the weight and then could not walk the dog properly. An hour of morning stiffness down to about ten minutes by month three.
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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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Pauline Ashworth Does anyone know if this is ok alongside Mounjaro? My nurse was not much help.
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Margaret Whitlock Pauline I am on Mounjaro and have taken it alongside since February, no issues at all. It is a scoop in my coffee, that is it. Worth asking your own doctor though.
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Denise Rowntree Lost the weight, kept the knee pain, and every single person told me it would go away on its own. It did not. This is the first thing that actually changed anything.
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