Nourish the body that moves you.
Your knee is fed by everything you do between workouts. Food, sleep, hormones, blood sugar, whether you smoke. These sound like general health topics, and they are. That’s the point: the knee is living tissue, and it’s nourished or neglected by the same choices as the rest of you.
Food first
There’s no magic ingredient. Variety, enough energy, enough protein and not too much of anything does more for knee health than any single nutrient. Muscle protects the knee, and muscle is built from dietary protein plus training plus adequate food. Bone is the frame the knee hangs on, built through life by load and nutrition, and lost when both are neglected.
Sleep is recovery
Tissue adapts and repairs between demands, and most of that happens during sleep. Poor sleep also changes how much pain people feel and how well they tolerate training. If you’re chronically short of sleep, fixing that will do more for your knees than anything you can buy. [Optional clinician line on sleep and recovery from injury or surgery.]
Metabolic health reaches the knee
Blood glucose, cholesterol and general metabolic health are usually discussed as heart topics. They matter to joints too: the knee’s tissues live in the same bloodstream as everything else, and long term metabolic problems affect tissue quality, healing and inflammation throughout the body. Looking after your metabolic health is part of looking after your knees, and unlike most knee advice, you can measure it.
Smoking
Smoking impairs blood supply and tissue healing. For a joint whose cartilage already has a poor blood supply, that matters. If you needed one more reason to stop, your knees are it.
Hormone health
Hormones influence bone density, muscle mass and tissue quality through life, and hormonal change, including menopause, is a relevant chapter in many people’s knee story. This is worth discussing with a clinician as part of the whole picture rather than treating the knee in isolation.
Where supplements fit
We sell supplements, so let’s be clear about the order of things: food, sleep and lifestyle first. A food supplement supplements the diet; it is not a substitute for a varied diet and not a treatment for a knee condition. What we can do is tell you exactly what’s in ours, at what dose, and what the evidence does and doesn’t say. Then it’s your call.