Forty-five minutes
before you load it.

Men 45 and over who still train with weights, and intend to be doing it in twenty years.

Three moves, one routine: collagen before you load, creatine every day, magnesium once daily. We make no skin, hair or nail claim.

No trial we know of shows fewer injuries. If someone tells you otherwise, ask them for the trial.

Because collagen is a substrate, not a stimulus. The work this protocol comes from paired it with loading: the timing study gave the dose an hour before a loading session, and the tendon trials ran it alongside training. So the dose goes 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, once daily.

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 TARE uses: 15 g, three scoops, the bottom of the 15–30 g daily range the 2026 tendon review recommends with training. That 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 all 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: it carries a measured magnesium figure, a heavy-metal panel and a microbiological panel for that powder, and no identity test, so it still 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.

All 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, the creatine at 99.87% against a specification of more than 99.5%, and the magnesium at 102.54 mg against 91.6 mg in the laboratory's own 926 mg serving, on a raw-material lot. 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.

There is no felt onset. Nothing to notice in the cup. The check is your training log over weeks, which is exactly why the dose and the paperwork are printed.

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: 60 days from delivery, once per product per customer, shipping isn't refunded, and there is nothing to send back.

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.

The document held for Night Work measures magnesium at 102.54 mg against a 91.6 mg specification in the laboratory's own 926 mg serving, on a raw-material lot — not three capsules, and not a TARE bottle. If a potency result on a finished lot at the label's serving is ever run, it will be published here. The 275 mg above is the label figure, and this arithmetic runs on it. The Lot Mark of three of four records what the document measures and the identity test it does not run.

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 each bundle beside what its jars cost bought separately: The Two is $125 ($133 bought separately), the creatine-free pair $130 ($138), and all three together $169 ($192), because one routine should cost less than separate decisions. The bundles are sold once; Subscribe & Save is set per jar. Never a struck-through price that never existed, no coupon code, and no countdown. Shipping is $7.95 per shipment, with no spend line to clear.

Subscribe & Save is set per jar, each on its own clock: Under Load $62.41 every 5 weeks, or every 4 if you train five days a week; Base Work $42.66 every 8 weeks; Night Work $46.61 every 4 weeks. Each is 21% below the jar's one-time price, plus $7.95 shipping per delivery. The bundles are sold once, because the jars inside them run out at different speeds. Every jar can still be bought once, at the printed price.

Two ways to cancel: 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." Your account also skips a delivery, pauses until you resume, and changes the card or the address; to change how often a jar ships, or which jar, email us and we change it. We email you three days before every renewal is charged. If a payment fails we try again three times, a week apart, and never cancel or pause your plan over it: that delivery is skipped and the next is charged on its usual date.

The box that says you agree to be billed again is never pre-ticked: choosing a plan and agreeing to be charged are two different things, and we are not going to blur them. Same price at the twelfth delivery as at the first — no intro rate, no step-up, no free trial that turns into a charge.

60 days from delivery, because a tub of Under Load lasts about 40 days at four sessions a week and the window should outlast the tub. If TARE is not part of your training week, one email gets you a full refund of the price. No forms, no phone calls, no "return the empty jar" games. Once per product per customer — a guarantee, not a rolling discount — and shipping is not part of the refund.

Processing takes 1–2 business days — that is when your order leaves our fulfiller, with a 2pm EST cut-off. Domestic delivery runs 5–9 business days end to end by USPS and 5–7 by UPS. We ship to United States addresses only.

What it costs is $7.95 per shipment, bought once or subscribed, with no spend line to clear. One exception, and it is what checkout actually charges: creatine ships under its own profile so New York can be excluded from it, so a cart that mixes a creatine product with one that is not is quoted as two shipments — $15.90. We would rather print that here than let you find it at the payment step. 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 a dietary supplement that is labeled, marketed or otherwise represented for weight loss or muscle building an 18+ product in that state; creatine is one of the substances the statute directs a court to consider, and whether a product falls inside it turns on how it is represented, not only on what is in it. For a delivery sale it 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.