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Wealthy Health Shark Cartilage is a hard capsule carrying 750 mg of shark cartilage from marine blue shark, with no second active alongside it. Shark cartilage naturally contains glycosaminoglycans, chondroitin among them. It is taken with meals to help maintain joint cartilage health and joint health, and to support healthy immune system function.

Product Strengths

Shark cartilage 750 mg a capsule, and nothing else as an active.
A natural source of glycosaminoglycans, including chondroitin.
Made without added corn, yeast, wheat, gluten, sugar, sodium, egg, dairy, artificial colours or artificial flavours.
Comes as 100 hard capsules.

Suitable For / Not Suitable For

Suitable for: Adults. Made without added corn, yeast, wheat, gluten, sugar, egg, dairy, artificial colours or artificial flavours.

Not suitable for: Children, pregnant or breastfeeding women, and anyone who has recently had a heart attack, surgery or a major accident, unless a health professional advises it. It contains fish products and gelatin, so it does not suit vegetarians or vegans, or anyone avoiding fish.

Ingredients

Each capsule contains	Amount
Shark cartilage	750 mg

Excipients: gelatin, magnesium stearate, purified water and sodium lauryl sulfate. Made without added corn, yeast, wheat, gluten, sugar, sodium, egg, dairy, artificial colours or artificial flavours.

Allergens

Contains gelatin, fish products and sulfites. Always review label for full list of ingredients.

Suggested Use

Take 1 to 2 capsules with meals twice daily, or as directed by your healthcare professional.

Cost Per Serve

Pack size	100 capsules
Serving size	4 capsules
Serves per pack	25
Price	$16.95
Cost per serve	$0.68

Cost per serve is approximate and based on the current price.

Warnings

Children, pregnant or breastfeeding women, and those who have recently had a heart attack, surgery or a major accident should not consume this product without medical advice.
Use only as directed. If symptoms persist, consult your healthcare professional.
Keep out of reach of children.
Do not use if the tamper evident seal is missing, torn or damaged.

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Store below 30 degrees in a cool, dry place.

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Always read the label and follow the directions for use. Supplements should not replace a balanced diet. If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional. Keep out of reach of children.

Ingredients

Each capsule contains: Shark Cartilage 750mg. Capsule shell contains Gelatin. No added corn, yeast, wheat, gluten, sugar, sodium, egg, dairy, artificial colours or artificial flavours.

Suggested dose

Take 1–2 capsules with meals twice daily, or as directed by your healthcare professional.

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Shark Cartilage

What is shark cartilage?

Shark cartilage is cartilage from sharks, dried and powdered, and it comes as capsules, tablets and powder. If joints are your reason for looking, our naturopaths can also show you chondroitin, the part of cartilage with its own joint research.

Christina Hanley, BHSc (Nutritional Medicine), Digital Experience & Content Manager, Mr Vitamins

Christina HanleyBHSc (Nutritional Medicine), Digital Experience & Content Manager
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Is Shark Cartilage right for you?

With shark cartilage, the first question our naturopaths ask in store isn't what it'll do for you. It's whether you're in one of the groups the label warns about.

A good fit if

You're an adult, you're not pregnant or breastfeeding, and you've had no recent heart attack, surgery or major accident
You've read the label warning and you're comfortable with it
You know there's no joint trial behind it, and you're choosing it anyway with that in mind

Check with us first if

You have surgery or a procedure coming up. The warning names recent surgery, and the human study showed it slowed blood vessel growth into a healing wound.
You're being treated for a serious illness. A review of side effects from health foods in seriously ill patients named raised blood calcium from shark cartilage products.
You already take calcium or vitamin D, for the same reason.
You have a sensitive stomach. Nausea, diarrhoea, vomiting, wind and constipation were the most common side effects in trials.
You take any regular medicine. We found no interaction data for shark cartilage, which isn't the same as there being no interactions.
If you take prescription medicine, check with your doctor, pharmacist or our naturopaths before you start.

How the forms compare

Whole dried shark cartilage (capsules, tablets, powder). Best known for: The retail product, and what this page is about. Absorption: Not measured for joints, and we have no joint trial. Typical use: Sold for joints. It carries the mandatory warning and has no daily dose cap.
Liquid shark cartilage extract. Best known for: The form used in the human blood vessel study. Absorption: Something in it works when swallowed: it slowed new blood vessel growth into a wound sponge in 29 healthy men. Typical use: This shows why the warning exists; it isn't a reason to take it.
AE-941 (Neovastat), a standardised extract. Best known for: The pharmaceutical-grade version, and the most tested. Absorption: Tested at 30 to 240 mL a day in trials. Typical use: A phase III trial in 379 people found no difference in survival (P = 0.73). Not a retail product.
Shark chondroitin sulfate. Best known for: A purified part of cartilage, not whole cartilage. Absorption: Has its own research, covered on our chondroitin page. Typical use: Joint formulas. The shark cartilage warning doesn't apply to it.
Chicken sternum cartilage powder. Best known for: The whole-cartilage option that isn't from shark. Absorption: Not assessed here. Typical use: Capped at 40 mg a day, by mouth only, and labelled Adults only.
Shark liver oil. Best known for: Not cartilage at all, but an oil providing vitamins A and D. Absorption: Not assessed here. Typical use: Has its own vitamin A caps and birth-defect warning.

Common questions

Does shark cartilage help your joints?

We can't tell you it does, because we couldn't find a single clinical trial of shark cartilage for joints, cartilage or osteoarthritis. Australian rules do include joint wording, and the two claims about cartilage need scientific evidence behind them. That evidence isn't there yet. The idea that eating cartilage helps your cartilage is appealing, but it's not a finding. If joints are why you're looking, try chondroitin. It's a purified part of cartilage with its own research, and it doesn't carry the shark cartilage warning.

Why does shark cartilage have such a long warning on the label?

Because of what it's been shown to do in people. In a placebo-controlled study of 29 healthy men, a liquid shark cartilage extract taken by mouth slowed the growth of new blood vessels into a small wound implanted in the arm. New blood vessels are what your body needs after surgery or an accident, after a heart attack, to build a placenta in pregnancy, and to grow as a child. So the label names every one of those groups. It's not general caution. It's a list that follows from how the extract behaves.

Is shark cartilage safe?

For most adults outside the groups named in the warning, the known problems are digestive. In one trial, 12 of 49 people had stomach side effects, mostly nausea, diarrhoea, vomiting, wind and constipation. In another, 5 of 47 stopped because they couldn't tolerate it. A review of side effects in seriously ill patients also named raised blood calcium from shark cartilage products. And there's one open question: a review of BMAA, a toxin made by blue-green algae, found more of it in shark cartilage than in most fish. Its authors say the health risk is hard to assess with confidence.

How much, and when

Reference values. There aren't any. Shark cartilage isn't a nutrient, so there's no Australian reference value, no deficiency and no daily target.

Typical supplemental range. There's no evidence-based joint dose, because there's no joint trial to take one from. Follow the directions on your product's label. The research doses were far higher than any capsule: one early trial used 1 g per kilo of body weight a day, about 70 g for a 70 kg adult, and 5 of 47 people stopped because they couldn't tolerate it.

Upper level. None is set. Australia's permitted ingredients list (Schedule 1, item 4513) has no maximum daily dose and no limit on how shark cartilage is taken. Instead, it carries a required warning. Chicken sternum cartilage powder, by comparison, is capped at 40 mg a day, for adults only.

Worth knowing. Taking more doesn't make up for missing evidence, and stomach upset increased in the trials that used large amounts. What you need depends on your age, diet and health, so talk to one of our naturopaths.

Food sources

Food first, where the diet allows it.

Shark meat and cartilage as food: blue shark is mainly sold in Asian countries as food and as traditional Chinese medicine. No amount of cartilage per serve is recorded
Calcium, chondroitin and protein content: we couldn't find a source that measures any of them in shark cartilage, so no figure appears here

Before you start

If any of these sound like you, talk to one of our naturopaths or your doctor before you start.

Children, pregnant or breastfeeding women, and anyone who has recently had a heart attack, surgery or major accident. This is a mandatory Schedule 1 warning (item 4513).
If you're healing a wound or facing surgery. The oral extract slowed blood vessel growth into wounds in healthy men (P < 0.01).
If you're seriously ill, or already taking calcium or vitamin D. A systematic review of side effects names raised blood calcium.
Sensitive digestion. Stomach and gut side effects affected 12 of 49 people in one trial, and 5 of 47 stopped because of them in another.
Any regular medicine. We found no interaction data, so check with a pharmacist.
If you take prescription medicines, check with your doctor, pharmacist or our naturopaths before you start.

The evidence, and its limits

Every shark cartilage medicine must carry a warning for children, pregnant or breastfeeding women, and anyone who has recently had a heart attack, surgery or major accident. (Schedule 1, item 4513)
In 29 healthy men, oral shark cartilage extract slowed new blood vessel growth into an implanted wound sponge (P < 0.01). (DOI record)
We found no clinical trial of shark cartilage for joints, cartilage or osteoarthritis. (Permissible Indications Determination)
Two large placebo-controlled phase III trials, of 83 and 379 patients, found no benefit for survival or quality of life. (DOI record)
Stomach upset is common: 12 of 49 people in one trial had it, and 5 of 47 stopped in another. (DOI record)
A systematic review names raised blood calcium from health foods containing calcium, vitamin D and shark cartilage. (DOI record)

How it works

No one has shown what shark cartilage does for joints, because we couldn't find a single trial of it for them. What has been measured in people is something else. In a study of 29 healthy men, a liquid extract taken by mouth slowed the growth of new blood vessels into a small sponge placed under the skin of the arm, while placebo didn't. Think of it as slowing the repair crew that turns up when tissue needs rebuilding. That's not a benefit, and it's the reason for the label warning. New blood vessels are exactly what your body needs after surgery, after a heart attack, in pregnancy and while a child is growing.

The Australian rules

Shark cartilage is allowed in Australian listed medicines. It's item 4513 on Australia's permitted ingredients list (Schedule 1, Determination No. 2 of 2026), under purpose codes A and E, with no maximum daily dose and no limit on how it's taken. Its one condition is a mandatory label warning covering children, pregnancy, breastfeeding and a recent heart attack, surgery or major accident. Shark chondroitin sulfate is listed separately, at items 4512, 4514, 4515 and 4516, and that warning doesn't apply to it. Shark liver oil is a third, unrelated product at item 4517, with its own vitamin A and D caps. What a product may claim is set by the Therapeutic Goods (Permissible Indications) Determination (No. 1) 2025. Joint wordings exist there, and the two cartilage wordings need scientific evidence. Every joint wording also comes with a rule that the product must not imply or refer to bone disease or disorders. No permitted indication covers any serious disease. We found no TGA advisory, so we make no statement based on one. Being allowed isn't the government endorsing any product or claim.

Read the instrument: Schedule 1, item 4513.

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Always read the label and follow the directions for use. General information only, and not a substitute for advice from your doctor or one of our naturopaths.

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Suitable For / Not Suitable For

Ingredients

Allergens

Suggested Use

Cost Per Serve

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Storage

Disclaimer

Ingredients

Suggested dose

What is shark cartilage?

Is Shark Cartilage right for you?

Does shark cartilage help your joints?

Why does shark cartilage have such a long warning on the label?

Is shark cartilage safe?

How much, and when

Before you start

The evidence, and its limits

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