Dr. Ryan Mitchell, DVM Facebook ad: “Amazon Sold Fake Dog Collagen Under A Real Brand's Name”

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I recommended a liquid collagen supplement to 68 clients last year. 21 of their dogs got worse. Same supplement. Same recommendation. Same instructions. But nearly a third of the dogs I was trying to help were scratching harder than the day before their owners bought it. I'm Dr. Ryan Mitchell. I've been studying canine dermatology and allergic skin disease for 12 years. I don't recommend products casually. When I tell a client to spend money on something, I've already used it myself. The supplement is called Canbloom Liquid Collagen. I tested it on my own cocker spaniel first — she'd had a lifelong barrier problem, chronic red paws, the kind of low-grade itch that never fully resolves — before I ran it through my clinic for a full quarter. Hydrolyzed marine collagen. MSM and hyaluronic acid. No starch binders. I ran skin integrity panels at six weeks and ten weeks. Both showed measurable improvements in barrier function. My clinic dogs were calmer by week eight. Every client who ordered it was reporting the same things. - Paw licking stopped. - Red bellies clearing. - Coats coming back. - Dogs sleeping through the night. Then the messages started. One. Then another. Then another. "Dr. Mitchell, it's not working. She's scratching worse than before." I started calling them back. Asked every one to walk me through exactly what had happened. Same story every time. Dog took it the first day. Seemed fine. By day three or four, the licking was back. By the end of the week, the hot spots had returned. I recognized the pattern immediately. That's the barrier-skip fade. It's what happens when a dog is taking something that briefly mutes the itch signal on the surface but does nothing to rebuild the skin barrier underneath. But Canbloom's entire formula prevents that. The hydrolyzed collagen peptides feed the dermis directly. They rebuild the barrier so allergens can't get through. That's why I recommended it. That's why it works in my clinic. Unless what they'd bought didn't actually contain hydrolyzed collagen. I asked three of the 21 owners to bring their products in. The first arrived on a Wednesday morning. Claire set it on my exam table. I looked at it. Then I looked at mine. They were not the same product. The label was close but wrong. The container was lighter. The product inside was a compressed chew — not a liquid. I picked one up. Hard. Chalky. Dry. "Where did you order this?" I asked. "Amazon. I searched 'Canbloom liquid collagen.' It was the first result. Hundreds of reviews." The second product. Same thing. The third. Same. I contacted Canbloom that evening. Sent them photographs of all three. Their response confirmed exactly what I was starting to suspect. Canbloom does not sell chews. Never have. They manufacture one product: a cold-pressed liquid. Any listing on Amazon using their name is counterfeit. They explained the differences. The real Canbloom uses cold-processed hydrolyzed collagen peptides — the molecular structure stays intact, passes through the gut, and reaches the skin cells directly. No heat treatment. No binders. No starches the liver has to clear before anything else can happen. What my clients had bought was compressed collagen heated to over 300 degrees during manufacturing. The same grade used in cheap human protein snacks. The heat denatures the active peptide bonds before the product even leaves the facility. Absorption rate is somewhere around 9%. It never reaches the skin barrier. The real Canbloom feeds the barrier from the inside. The chews did nothing. J ust dead protein passing through a dog whose skin was letting every allergen straight in. I went back through my records and tracked where each of the 68 clients had ordered. 47 ordered from canbloomstore.com. 21 ordered from Amazon. The Amazon group: every single dog's scratching had come back within a week. Zero improvement. Several owners told me they'd written off Canbloom as another scam and gone back to monthly Apoquel prescriptions and Cytopoint injections. The canbloomstore.com group: 44 of 47 dogs showing measurably calmer skin at their ten-week recheck. Barrier markers improved or stable. Owners reporting the changes I'd seen in my own clinic dog — paw licking stopped, bellies clearing, coats growing back in. Those 21 dogs spent weeks with their skin failing while their owners believed they were doing the right thing. The barrier kept breaking because what arrived at their door was a compressed chew using stolen branding. That made me angry. I called every one of them. Explained what happened. Told them to throw out the Amazon product and order from canbloomstore.com directly. Every single one did. Within six weeks, 19 of the 21 dogs had calmer skin. The licking had stopped. The hot spots were clearing. The other two were in late-stage chronic dermatitis where the damage had cycled into recurrent infection during the months on the chew. The inflammation was too established to shift in six weeks. One owner messaged me at 7:30 in the morning. "Dr. Mitchell, she just slept through the night. No scratching, no licking, no collar-jingle waking me up at 2am. I thought you were wrong about Canbloom. I'm so sorry." I wasn't wrong about Canbloom. She was wrong about Amazon. I now say the same thing to every client at the end of every skin consult: "Order from https://canbloomstore.com/products/canbloom-premium-liquid-collagen-1-1-free — do not order on Amazon. They only make liquid. Any chew you find with their name on it is counterfeit." I say it every time. Because I watched 21 dogs scratch themselves raw for weeks because their owners did what anyone would do. Searched Amazon. Found the name. Read the reviews. Clicked Buy Now. If anyone has recommended Canbloom to you, or if you're thinking about it for your dog's skin, make sure you don't order the Amazon chew. The only place to get the real Canbloom liquid is https://canbloomstore.com/products/canbloom-premium-liquid-collagen-1-1-free 60-day guarantee. Dog's skin doesn't improve, full refund. Canbloom is the only product I've ever recommended where I have to warn every client not to buy it from the wrong place. That shouldn't be necessary. But until Amazon stops allowing counterfeit listings under real brand names, it is. If this reaches even one person who's about to search "Canbloom" on Amazon, then it was worth writing ❤️ https://canbloomstore.com/products/canbloom-premium-liquid-collagen-1-1-free

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