How interesting your awareness re: heavy metals. Never even considered that, thinking it was pretty much the same as gelatin (again, per Peat!). However, when I re-read the thread again I saw the post someone made about the fluoride content of collagen, which I had never heard of nor seen before. Think I'll change direction now and lean toward gelatin. I've been buying beef bones with my meat orders, so I will continue with that. Gone are the days when the butcher's standard fare included cuts, mostly with bone-in ...I didn’t see that post of yours, sorry about that! To your question, no I don’t use the collagen powder, except on rare occasion, when I don’t have a homemade bone broth on hand or pork rinds or chicken wings. I just don’t prefer the collagen for heavy metal reason. I don’t even use the store bought bone broths for the same, plus there there is no gelatinization in either. Gelatin would be my first pic of those three. I noticed that when I did use collagen powder on a regular basis I was feeling those heavy metals symptoms, I am familiar with, with numbness in my extremities when I was also having vitamin C near it.
Thanks so much for your quick response and feedback-- always so helpful!