Why collagen stops working after three weeks

A few years ago we were working alongside nutritionists, and we noticed something. Collagen came up in almost every plan they wrote. Different clients, different reasons, same recommendation.

So their clients went shopping. And they came back with the same two complaints.

The good ones cost a fortune. The affordable ones were flavoured tubs — sweeteners, thickeners, a list of ingredients you'd need a chemistry degree to read — and every one of them was another drink you had to make.

Then we noticed the bigger problem.

The clients who bought it mostly stopped. Not because they'd decided it didn't work. Because three weeks in, the tub was at the back of the cupboard behind the cereal, and making a second drink every morning had quietly fallen off the list.

That was the moment it clicked. Collagen doesn't fail. Routines fail. Anything that adds a step to your morning gets dropped by week three, and collagen has always come as a step: a shaker, a flavour, a ritual you have to keep up.

So we asked a different question. What if collagen wasn't a drink at all? What if it was an ingredient — something that disappears into the tea or coffee you're already making?

That's Protein Collagen. One ingredient: hydrolysed bovine collagen peptides. No flavour, no sweetener, no fluff. 10g of collagen and 9g of protein in four teaspoons, and it dissolves clear into a hot drink. You don't take it. You just have your coffee.

Then we ran into the second problem, and this one was ours.

We were sending it out a pouch at a time. One pouch is a month. A month is exactly long enough to forget, and not long enough to know — the studies that measure collagen don't look before eight weeks. We were handing people false starts.

So we stopped. This September we're offering it the only way it makes sense: three months, one decision, and everything you need to still be doing it in week eight.