Four supplements my patients took on their own, and the doses that mattered

Most of the people in my waiting room were past fifty-five. A runner who couldn't walk downstairs anymore. A grandmother on her second knee replacement. A contractor who couldn't close his hand around a screwdriver before ten in the morning.

In [2019] I started asking every new patient what they already took. I expected fish oil and a multivitamin. What I got, from about [eight in ten] of them, was some mix of the same four ingredients, bought separately, at doses that were all over the place.

Nobody had told them to.

The ones who took the right amounts did better

I kept notes for [three years]. Patients taking a full dose of all four reported less morning stiffness at their [90-day] visit than patients taking one or two of them, or taking all four at a fraction of the dose. [Replace this with what your own expert observed, and keep the numbers honest.]

"[One sentence from your expert about the patients who stayed on all four ingredients for the full 90 days.]"

So I worked with [a contract manufacturer in Ohio] to put the four into one capsule at the doses my patients did best on. That product is Joint Support Formula.

What's in the bottle, and how much

• Type-II collagen, [40 mg]. The undenatured form, which works in milligrams. It isn't the collagen in protein powder, and the two get confused on labels all the time.
• Boswellia serrata, [250 mg], standardized to [30%] AKBA. The percentage matters more than the milligrams. Many labels don't print it at all.
• Curcumin, [500 mg], with [5 mg] black pepper extract. Curcumin on its own absorbs poorly, and the pepper extract is there to fix that.
• MSM, [1,500 mg]. The bulky one. It's why the serving is two capsules and why cheaper products quietly cut it to [500 mg].

You take two capsules with breakfast. That's the whole routine.

It takes about six weeks before most people notice

I'd rather you hear this from me than find out in week three. For most people nothing obvious happens in the first two weeks, and the ones who quit there miss the part that works. [87]% of the people who kept going felt the difference by week [6], and the guarantee covers you if you're in the rest.