Forty-five minutes
before you load it.

Because collagen is a substrate, not a stimulus. In the work this protocol comes from, collagen taken without loading did essentially nothing — the tissue has to be under work for any of it to matter, and the dose went in 30 to 60 minutes before the session, with vitamin C. Pre-, not post-. That is the whole protocol, and the timing is the part the category leaves out.

The evidence and its limits — journal, year, design and sample size for each — are printed in section 01 rather than gestured at.

15 g — three 5 g scoops — in water or a shake, 30 to 60 minutes before you train, with 50 to 100 mg of vitamin C. The vitamin C is not in the jar; it is an orange, or a tablet from anywhere. Training days only: a scoop on a rest day has no mechanism behind it in the literature we are citing, and we would rather say so than sell you servings you were never going to use.

Base Work is 5 g of creatine, any time, every day. Night Work is three capsules at night.

Because they answer different questions. The Supplement Facts panel states what a serving of the powder is — 10 g, two 5 g scoops, 35 servings — and it is locked. The site states the dose the tendon literature actually used, which is 15 g, three scoops, and works out at 23 uses a tub. We are not allowed to print the protocol on the label and we would not want to: a jar should say what is in it, not how we think you should use it. Both figures sit next to each other on The Monograph.

The marketing got female-coded; the molecule didn't. Collagen is not a beauty supplement that men can also take — it is a connective-tissue supplement that got sold to women.

We make no skin claims at all. Am J Medicine, 2025 — a review of 23 randomised trials, n=1,474 — found that the independently funded ones showed no effect on hydration, elasticity or wrinkles. The reason we are not making that claim is worth more to us than the claim was.

Largely, yes, and it is a fair thing to ask rather than a gotcha. The difference is molecular weight and where the chains were cut, not the source, and anyone telling you it is a different substance is overselling. What we sell is one ingredient, a measured protein figure, and a time of day — not a proprietary process.

It does. No tryptophan, very little leucine — as a protein it is poor, and that is the second of the three criticisms we print against ourselves. This is not a protein supplement and we do not sell it as one: do not count the 14.7 g against your day. It is a substrate for connective tissue at a specific time, and it is dosed as that.

We changed manufacturer this year and audited what the new one could actually document. Two jars did not survive it. The colostrum went because no immunoglobulin assay exists on any lot from either supplier — the one number a buyer most wanted to check was the one we could not show him. The shilajit went because there is no certificate for it at all. The electrolyte jar went as it was constituted; its creatine half survives as Base Work, and the electrolyte load is gone until there is a certified formula to put in it.

Four jars became three, and two of the three we still hold report a measured result. Each one, with the figure that killed it, is on the testing page.

Three certificates, and the question worth asking is not who ran them but what each one covers. One names the lot our own tub was filled from — the collagen, lot 121125450 — and the laboratory that ran it belongs to the company that manufactures the powder. That is a weaker check than an outside lab, and you should hear it from us rather than work it out later.

The creatine’s certificate does come from an independent laboratory. Read whose sample it is, though: it was issued to the ingredient supplier against a sealed bag of raw material, with the serving size recorded as N/A. It certifies the powder before it became our product, not the tub on your shelf. The magnesium document came from that same laboratory, and it covers a raw-material powder lot tested for microbiology only — it carries no identity, potency or heavy-metal result, so it cannot vouch for what is in the capsule.

So: one of three names a lot we filled, and none of the three is an outside laboratory testing a finished TARE tub. Getting one is the next thing on this list, and it will appear here when it exists.

Two of the three report a measured result against a specification, which is new this year: the collagen assays protein at 9.8 g against a 9 g specification, and the creatine at 99.87% against a specification of more than 99.5%. Every figure, with the laboratory and the lot beside it, is on one page.

We hold no third-party product certification — not NSF Certified for Sport, not Informed Sport, not USP. They cost between eight and eighty thousand dollars a year and are out of reach this year. We would rather write that sentence than let a badge imply otherwise.

By Rocktomic Labs, LLC, in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

There is no facility badge anywhere on this site and there will not be one until their own certification letters are in our hands. The badges that used to be here belonged to a supplier we no longer use, and they came down the day we left. A facility mark certifies that a building was inspected — it tells you nothing about the powder in your tub, which is the distinction the testing page opens with.

One sentence, asterisked, and it is the whole ledger: collagen peptides support connective tissue.* There is no second one coming.

What we will not tell you: no randomised trial shows a reduced injury rate, the 2026 JFMK systematic review grades the evidence strong — GRADE A — against an effect on muscle strength, and 30 g taken after exercise produced no increase in muscle connective protein synthesis. No supplement replaces training, food, or rest. Judge it on the count — three scoops, before the session, on the days you train — and if you get to the end of a tub with nothing to show for it, use the guarantee.

One number. The full protocol puts 275 mg of supplemental magnesium into your day, against a published tolerable upper intake level of 350 mg from supplements. That leaves 75 mg, which a greens powder or a second electrolyte can spend without asking you first. Nothing else in the range carries any magnesium at all: the jar that used to add more is retired, so this is one number now rather than two.

Night Work's certificate carries no potency section at all, so there is no measured magnesium figure to publish and none will be. The 275 mg above is the label figure, and this arithmetic runs on it. That absence is what the Lot Mark of one of four records.

Under Load is $79, Base Work $54, Night Work $59. Bought one at a time the three come to $192. The old prices were set against four jars from a supplier we no longer use, so they went with the jars.

The single jars are printed first and every rung is a discount off those three printed numbers: The Two is $119, the creatine-free pair $124, and all three together $169 — $23 off buying them separately. Never a struck-through price that never existed, no coupon code, and no countdown. Shipping is $7.95 flat, with no spend line to clear.

Subscribe & Save takes Under Load to $62, Base Work to $42, Night Work to $46, The Two to $93 and all three to $132. Against the same order bought once, with shipping counted in both, that is 19.4% off on the smallest rung and 20.9% off on the largest, and the rate for each rung is printed beside it. The plans open the day Batch 001 ships; until then the jars are sold once, at the printed price.

Two ways to cancel: the button in your account, or one email to support@taketare.com. Not a phone call, not a form, not a retention script, and no "email us within a window." A self-service portal goes live the day Batch 001 ships — cancel, pause, skip, change date or payment, one step.

The subscription option is pre-selected, because it is the cheaper of the two. The box that says you agree to be billed again is not pre-ticked. Two different things, and we are not going to blur them. Same price in month twelve as in month one — no intro rate, no step-up, no free trial that turns into a charge.

30 days from delivery. If TARE is not part of your training week, one email gets you a full refund. No forms, no phone calls, no "return the empty jar" games. Once per product per customer — a guarantee, not a rolling discount.

Orders leave our fulfiller 1–2 business days after they are placed, with a 2pm EST cut-off. Domestic delivery runs 5–9 business days end to end by USPS and 5–7 by UPS. International is 12–16.

What it costs is $7.95, flat, on every order — one jar or three, bought once or subscribed, with no spend line to clear. The old rule charged a flat rate under a threshold and nothing over it; it was the first weight tier on our previous fulfiller's rate card and it left with them. One figure across the range runs under our carrier cost on the collagen and over it on the magnesium, which is what flat means, and we would rather print one number you can check than a table you have to work out.

One product-specific exclusion: Base Work — and The Two and The Standard, which both contain it — does not ship to New York. New York General Business Law §391-oo makes creatine-containing supplements an 18+ product and requires an adult to sign for the box and show photo ID at the door; our shipping partner sends standard parcel and does not offer that. Under Load and Night Work ship to New York normally, and so does the creatine-free pair. Full wording on the policies page.