Painkillers and creams manage the pain signal for a few hours. Turmeric chases inflammation — a different job. Glucosamine pills hand your body a few hundred milligrams of one helper molecule. Collagen capsules top out around a gram or two, because that’s all a handful of capsules can physically hold.
None of that is building material in real quantity.
A joint cushion is built from grams of protein, day after day. That’s why this is a scoop and not a capsule: 9 grams of collagen per serving — the amount is the first line on the label.