Unlock collagen activation in your body: you might be missing this if your skin is dull and wrinkled
and if you want to age backwards (biologically, of course)
YES, collagen is GOD when it comes to anything that has to do with optimizing health and having vitality.
Collagen holds your body together.
It is the most effective and useful GLUE of all time.
If you didn’t have collagen you would fall apart.
Do you know what this means??
This is THE MOST important job in the world.
It is a hell of a job.
It is a huge responsibility.
Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body.
[Collagen makes up 30% of your body’s PROTEIN]
Our bones REQUIRE COLLAGEN to stay dense and become denser.
[Collagen makes up 80% of the protein in BONE]
Our skin cells REQUIRE COLLAGEN for suppleness and glowiness and continuous renewal.
[Collagen makes up 70% of the protein in SKIN]
Any joint in our body REQUIRES COLLAGEN for proper function.
Our arteries REQUIRE COLLAGEN to not get bruised and dislodge plaques or block paths.
Our gut cells REQUIRE COLLAGEN for continuous renewal of the gut lining (for proper absorption of nutrients from food and for a good microbiome to develop)
As we get older, we start to lose collagen very quickly: by the age of 20 we lose collagen from our skin at the rate of ~1% per year.
So, yes we must make up for that loss in getting enough collagen from either food, supplements or both.
Getting ENOUGH collagen from food alone is just not realistic unless you’re going to be drinking gallons of good bone broth and eating chicken drumsticks every week.
Getting it from supplements is a must and YES they work!
But here is the UNLOCK though:
Even with taking collagen supplements, if you are not giving your body an ongoing flux of abundant vitamin C everyday, all that collagen is going to go to waste.
VITAMIN C is THE THING that SPARKS the entire process of:
"Let’s start producing collagen in the body (with the collagen peptides you just consumed) in the most needed places in the body”
You eat collagen peptides from foods or supplements - so these are hanging out there waiting to be triggered into major collagen production.
THEN, vitamin C kickstarts the signal in the bones, skin cells, cartilage, dental cells, gut cells, retinal cells. Vitamin C says “ok, you can get all of those raw materials and do your thing of producing collagen and then using it properly”
Without vitamin C, nothing happens.
That simple little secret that has MAJOR AMAZING EFFECTS for not only your skin but oh for your vitality and suppleness in joints, arteries, gut lining.
It’s SO simple that it gets missed BIG TIME in this big wide web of abundant health information.
The only person I have ever heard talking about this with proper emphasis is Dr. Dinicolantonio.
If you hear functional medicine/integrative doctors and practitioners interacting they roll their eyes at this.
AND YET, this is a crucial little detail that you now know and can use to get biologically younger.
It’s SO simple people don’t believe it.
But this is a BIOCHEMICAL fact with MAJOR positive consequences for your entire vitality.
Vitamin C is a LOVELY thing.
And yes, you can get it from fruits and veggies but I take it in liposomal supplemental form as the food versions are not enough, in my view, for abundant and highest bioavailability.
(vitamin C is poorly absorbed in the intestines and is also a water soluble vitamin: this means it gets depleted often, especially with high stress. So, you have to replenish daily)
I attribute my glowing skin in big part to vitamin C (and LOTS of collagen too, of course. Hahahaha!)
More importantly, if vitamin C is lacking in the body, it will not only affect skin health but will create problems in bone density, connective tissues, gut lining, and artery walls!
Latest EVIDENCE and RESEARCH here if you are interested in reading further on how low vitamin C levels can significantly impair collagen synthesis, leading to various health issues: https://tinyurl.com/8r67yba3
More RESEARCH on the role of vitamin C in collagen synthesis: https://tinyurl.com/yc56tput
The one thing that is INCREDIBLE to me is that vitamin C is such a safe and simple little thing - a big domino health piece - that will resolve and knock down possibly hundreds of other health domino pieces without you having to lift a finger.
This is the magic of health leverage at play.
NOTE: I am not a doctor and this information is for educational purposes only. Please consult with your most trustworthy medical practitioner first before embarking on any supplement protocol - as they know the details of your health state well and can advise accordingly.