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Foods & Nutrition
7 entriesWhat you can eat or cook that has a plausible route to cartilage — what's actually in it, what survives digestion, and what the trials used.
Collagen from food
- Bone brothThe most confidently marketed joint food, with zero joint studiesAnecdotal
- Chicken feetGenuinely collagen-dense, demonstrably absorbed, never testedAnecdotal
- Gelatin + vitamin C before exerciseThe Shaw/Baar timing protocol — one elegant study carrying a lot of weightPromising
- Dietary collagen & glycineThe glycine-shortfall hypothesis: coherent, testable, never testedPreclinical