Nutrajoint with gelatin product canceled, now what?

Factual Questions
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pre-amble:
Years ago my doctor told me to start taking Nutrajoint for osteoarthritis. The problem is their product was made with Glucosamine and a warning for people who were allergic to shellfish not to take it. I’m allergic to shellfish, so my doctor told me to take Nutrajoint with Gelatin, because it doesn’t contain shellfish. So that’s what I did and it worked out fine.

Fine until today, when I found out the product has been canceled. So now I’m left with to finding another product that does the same thing but doesn’t have shellfish or any other kind of fish, because I’m allergic to most all of it. My doctor also told me that there is a cross-contamination problem with fish where it might be mixed with other fish, so I have done my best to avoid having anything with any kind of fish in it.

So this got me thinking, what exactly was in the Nutrajoint with Gelation that was beneficial for osteoarthritis. While the product has been discounted, the info is still on their website, so you can see what’s in the product:
http://www.osteobiflex.com/products/nutrajoint-gelatin-drink-mix/

pre-amble over.

So I’m starting over with this, what product do I use to replace this? Thanks in advance for your useful replies.

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If the only active ingredients are a few vitamins, calcium, phosphorous, zinc, and unflavored gelatin, all those items are available over the counter, and you could mix up your own.

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Calcium + Vitamin D is a common supplement formula.

I Use a multi-vitamin/mineral supplement as well as the D and Calcium supplement.

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glucosamine is glutamine ( as found in gluten , or eg MSG, combined with fructose.

Only some people have a problem making glutamine, they require a diet ensures sufficient level. It is for this reasons that Mr X’s assertion that he found benefit from glucosamine is not a lie, might be true, but still… a mere anecdote… anecdotes have a sample size of 1, and the people who it did not work for are not included.
The nine amino acids no human can synthesize are phenylalanine, valine, threonine, tryptophan, methionine, leucine, isoleucine, lysine, and histidine.

Ergo Glucosamine doesn’t seem to be the most obvious protein you want to specifically take supplements of…

Gelatin could be part of a protein supplement for vegetarians, as the one amino acid vegetarians could be missing out on is lysine, and its in gelatin.
However legumes do have lysine so its pretty simple to stick to natural plant sources for that !.

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I did some searching. I don’t know if this is a suitable replacement for the Nutrajoint, but it doesn’t contain shellfish:

http://www.gnc.com/GNC-Glucosamine-1000-MG/product.jsp?productId=16655336

I thought Glucosamine was shellfish, but I guess they found a way to extract it?

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Vegetarians generally wouldn’t eat gelatin, since it’s manufactured from hooves and bones.