Am I Too Old to Benefit from a Collagen Supplement?
 

Video Transcript:

So, our next question comes from one of our viewers who asks, or makes a statement, “I’ve heard that an 87-year-old body cannot make collagen anymore.” Well, thank you for writing in, and I’d like to take a minute to answer and kind of address our collagen projection through our lifespan.

At our youngest, we’re making a massive amount of collagen. And then it starts to, at age 30, 40, we start to see some subtle changes in terms of the decrease of collagen. But I will say that as long as you are breathing, and as long as you are living, your body is still manufacturing collagen, just not the rate that you had in your younger life. Because when we’re younger, we’re growing and we need collagen to help our body grow and stretch and get tall and wide, and all of our ligaments to grow, and our soft tissue to develop, and even our organ matter to develop and grow.

So, the collagen production, while it might wane in our midlife, we do continue to manufacture it. And you can, importantly, supplement with collagen.

Ways to Add Collagen to Your Daily Routine

So, at age 30 to 35 is when I recommend my patients, and many of you watching, to start adding collagen into your daily routine. And there are an assortment of ways to add collagen. I’m going to share with you, I’m drinking my keto collagen-enhanced coffee this morning. I have a whole bunch of things like MCT oil and collagen powder and functional mushrooms. I put a whole bunch of things in here that kind of powers up my coffee. But folks can add it to their coffee. You can add it to your morning breakfast, your smoothies, smoothie bowls. You can add it to yogurt. You can sprinkle it on all different types of foods.

I’ve even had folks that add it to their homemade salad dressings. So, there’s a lot of really wonderful ways to consume collagen. I’ll admit, we even bake with it. I have my “mommy cookies” that my son loves and we add collagen and an assortment of really good, healthy things.

Benefits of Collagen As We Age

So at age 87, where collagen will greatly benefit you… So, for any of my followers and folks here who are watching all of our Organixx-related videos, and you’re frequently receiving and reading our emails, first I want to express my gratitude because you are taking the reins of your health and wellness.

Strengthens Ligaments & Increases Mobility

So, the next step in taking the reins in your health and wellness as we age is to add in collagen. Because collagen can help your ligaments stay strong and supple, increasing mobility – so, mobility of your joints and your knees and your ankles. That helps our gait and our walk as we age, which the decrease of our gait and our walk can lead to problems or things where an individual might fall and then they break their hip.

And then we all know some family member who’s broken their hip and all of a sudden they’re in the hospital. And then all these things start happening from the stress of that experience.

Supports Heart Health & Skin Elasticity

Collagen will also support your heart, it will support your internal organs. It can also support your skin, the strength of your skin. And my grandmother lived, my paternal grandmother, she lived to 98. And I was a big part of her latter care after my naturopathic school, I actually moved in with her for a few years while I started my business. It was one of the most amazing times in my life.

And I had her consuming collagen. I put collagen powder in her smoothies every morning. And what was amazing is as she was getting healthier and started walking more and she started losing weight, collagen actually helped her skin elasticity. And it also helped minimize the abrasions, the kind of papery skin, if you’re familiar with any family members where they have sometimes age spots or their skin is just really, really sensitive. So, even if they nick something, nick the corner of a wall or they hit their arm or their hand on something and it suddenly bleeds, it’s the lack of collagen.

And so, collagen can help support and create more supple strength to an aging individual’s skin and can also support those ligaments and soft tissue to help prevent falls and breaks.

Strengthens Bones

Collagen also, especially our Clean Sourced Collagens, the five different types of collagen are synergistic, and they can help also strengthen up our bones in combination with consuming multi-minerals and adding good, healthy nutrition to your daily diet.

Maximize Collagen Intake at Any Age

So, I hope that is helpful. Just know, at any age, it’s important to make sure you’re maximizing your collagen intake. And I always recommend if you are going to consume collagen, that you add Enzyme 17 to the mix because the assorted protease blends in this will also help your body break apart and assimilate the protein in collagen.

So that’s my tip for you. Stay strong, stay well, and 87 is the new 57. Have a great day.


Organixx Clean Sourced Collagens blend contains five types of collagen from four sources. What’s more, it’s combined with targeted nutrients such as zinc, vitamin C, and vitamin B6 which specifically enhance the bioavailability and potency of collagen. Clean Sourced Collagens is formulated from the ground up to enhance and support your body’s natural ability to heal and rebuild itself from the INSIDE out.

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Vitamin C and Collagen: What’s the Connection?

You may have heard already about some of the fantastic health benefits of collagen – especially for joint and skin health. Did you know, though, that certain micronutrients can boost your own body’s natural ability to produce and effectively use collagen? It’s true, and one of the most powerful is good old vitamin C.

Read on to learn just why collagen and vitamin C make ideal partners when it comes to improving your health – and beauty – at any age!

Vitamin C and Collagen: How It Works

Collagen is a vital substance made of amino acids (mainly glycine and proline and sometimes others such as lysine) and accounts for the majority of all protein in the body. Its job is the formation of connective tissue in the body: cartilage in joints, internal tissue in organs, fibrous substances in bones, skin tissue, and so much more.human anatomy muscles

Vitamin C is a necessary substance for collagen production in the body. Without it, the body simply cannot produce it. It is needed for collagen storage and synthesis (i.e. how the body absorbs substances and works with other substances for vital functions).

Collagen forms the fibers that “hold together” the body. Likewise, vitamin C is responsible for “holding together” cells during collagen creation [1]. It is the catalyst for a process called hydroxylation (adding hydrogen and oxygen) within the amino acids proline and lysine.

From this, a precursor molecule is created called procollagen within the cell. All of these microscopic steps are needed for collagen to be eventually be created outside of the cell and then go on to eventually form the tissues that hold us all together and that we can see with the naked eye [2].

Not Just a “Vanity Vitamin”

Vitamin C is considered a “vanity vitamin” for what it can do for skin, hair, and nails. We will explore this in the next section. As you shall see, however, vitamin C and collagen work together for the health of many other functions in your body as well.

Vitamin C plays a key role in skin health mainly because it saturates both the dermis (middle) and the epidermis (top) levels of skin. It is transported to the skin through the bloodstream. Transport proteins tuned specifically to vitamin C are found in all layers of the skin, but especially in the epidermis.

The high amounts of vitamin C that exist in the first two layers of skin makes it a photoprotective substance. This means it has the ability to protect the body from too much UV light from the sun. It is an antioxidant as well, so it also reduces damage caused by free radicals. In the early 1980s, natural health pioneer Linus Pauling became the first to study the protective effects of vitamin C against carcinoma in mice [3].

And, of course, vitamin C is essential for collagen production and synthesized in the skin too. The right amount of vitamin C in your diet every day can help collagen do its job by keeping skin hydrated and helping to maintain its elasticity.

A French study published in the International Journal of Cosmetic Science back in 1998 found that an “Exogenous Vit C supply could thus contribute to the maintenance of optimal collagenic density in the dermis and locally strengthen the collagen network [4].” [Note: “Exogenous” refers to something from outside the body.]

Vitamin C and Gut Healing

Vitamin C also plays a vital role in helping form collagen networks in the body which form healthy tissues in internal organs, including the gut. Believe it or not, collagen assists in several functions in your digestive tract:

Collagen and Vitamin C Supplements

Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin which means it is not stored in the body. This means that if you want optimal health, you must feed your body plenty of it every day from the foods you consume. This is especially true if you are deficient in collagen as well.

Some foods that are high in vitamin C include:foods high in vitamin C

Just like with collagen deficiency, when a person suffers from a chronic deficiency of vitamin C or if a person is older, supplementation can be very helpful. And even people consuming a real, whole foods diet can still end up deficient in many vitamins and minerals.

According to a study of 43 garden crops conducted by the University of Texas in Austin, nutrient content across the board has declined significantly in the last five decades [8]. Environmental pollution, soil-depleting farming practices, poor lifestyle habits like smoking, and boatloads of stress all lead to chronic deficiencies of many essential nutrients like vitamin C.

Fortunately, some quality collagen products include vitamin C in their formulas because of the intimate relationship between the two substances. This is the case with Organixx’s Clean Sourced Collagens blend, one of the purest, most well-researched collagen products on the market today.


Organixx Clean Sourced Collagens blend contains five types of collagen from four sources. What’s more, it’s combined with targeted nutrients such as zinc, vitamin C, and vitamin B6 which specifically enhance the bioavailability and potency of collagen. Clean Sourced Collagens is formulated from the ground up to enhance and support your body’s natural ability to heal and rebuild itself from the INSIDE out.


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