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"Rewind the Years on Your Appearance and Put Some Spring Back into Your Step – All from the Inside Out "
Your grandmother really did know better. Used by Hippocrates and others, this traditional dietary staple can help you erase signs of early aging and leave you looking and feeling more vibrant and youthful – without risky, costly procedures.
When catching a glimpse of yourself in a mirror, do you sometimes find yourself wondering, “Who is that person?”
vibrant and youthful skin
Do you wish your skin looked more vibrant and youthful?
Passing time isn’t always kind to your skin – or your hair and nails. Skin lines, sags and wrinkles become more pronounced each year. Hair thins and nails become increasingly brittle. With each advancing year, that reflection in the mirror just looks – and feels – more tired.
And that’s just what’s on the outside that you can see!
Skin changes are often your first visible signs of aging throughout your body.
The protein that keeps your skin, hair and nails looking youthful and vibrant is what’s known as collagen, and it makes up a full 70 percent of your skin’s protein.
But collagen isn’t limited to your skin, hair, and nails...
It’s also the cellular glue that helps hold together all the connective tissue in your body.
Collagen provides the structure for your bones, muscles, tendons, joint cartilage, blood vessels, and organs, including your entire digestive system.
As you’ll soon see, collagen plays a crucial role in not just your appearance, but also with how you feel and even how well your body functions as the years roll by.
After Your Mid-20s, It’s All Downhill for Collagen Production
Collagen is the most common protein – and the most abundant substance – in your body, second only to water.
There are nearly two dozen types of collagen, but three types make up 80 to 90 percent of the collagen in your body: Types I, II, and III.
types of collagen
Types I and III are found mainly in your skin, bones, ligaments and tendons. Joint cartilage is mostly type II collagen.
When you’re young, your body makes enough collagen to keep tissues pliable and youthful.
However, that changes once you pass your mid-20s.
By the time you reach 40, your body’s ability to produce its own collagen drops about 25 percent. Your production is over half of youthful levels by age 60.
When you’re in your 80s, you have about four times less collagen, which is why your skin now wrinkles, creases and sags more on your face and neck.
As you can see in the photo to the right, elastin and collagen work together to keep your skin looking youthful. Collagen provides the strength and firmness to support your skin’s structure while elastin contributes softness and elasticity.
Aging skin’s collagen weakens and loses its tensile strength in the dermis, or second layer of your skin. Older skin not only takes on a lined and wrinkled appearance, it’s actually thinner. It contains less collagen and less elastin.
Here’s some good news about the declining levels in your skin...
It’s not written in stone that these losses have to happen. You can slow the rate at which your levels decline and even build them back up!
The Collagen-Busting Dirty Dozen That Can Speed Up Your Losses
When you have high levels of collagen, your skin is perky, smooth, moist, and firm. Skin cells renew and repair themselves.
Advancing age plays a role in declining levels, but it’s not the only culprit. Here are just some of the environmental, lifestyle, and nutritional factors that can affect your body’s production and speed up the loss of collagen, impacting the overall youthfulness of your skin:
cellular collagen synthesis
Cell phone usage reduces cellular collagen synthesis
Deficiency of nutrients (amino acids, vitamins and minerals) needed for collagen synthesis
Poor gut health and irregular elimination may impact absorption of nutrients and elimination of wastes
Hormone imbalances of the essential hormones DHEA, estrogen, testosterone, progesterone and pregnenolone
Sugar and excess carbs can lead to systemic inflammation which contributes to skin damage
Fluoride in water can damage collagen and affect bone mineral-collagen bond
Stress and trauma produce excess cortisol which increases collagen breakdown and decreases bone building and bone density
Excess free radicals from smoking, air pollution, Wi-Fi and cellular radiation degrade collagen fibrils
Alcohol damages your liver, dehydrates your skin, and produces skin-damaging chemical substances called congeners
Caffeine significantly reduces cellular synthesis of collagen
Inactivity decreases collagen turnover, whereas exercise indirectly builds skin thickness by increasing blood flow, oxygen and nutrients to your skin
Inadequate sleep is associated with higher stress hormones which can hasten the breakdown of collagen
Excessive sun exposure can lead to photo-damaged skin that’s resistant to collagen synthesis
Many of these factors involve free radicals. When excess free radicals are produced in your skin, say from smoking or too much sun exposure, they attack the skin’s collagen. This can lead to the early onset of wrinkling, dryness, and sagginess.
Slowing Your Losses and Rebuilding Collagen
So how can you reduce your losses and start rebuilding the collagen in your skin, hair, nails, organs, bones, joints, tendons, and blood vessels?
First, pay attention to the dirty dozen factors we just discussed.
collagen production
Regular exercise stimulates collagen production to help make your skin thicker and healthier
Diet, clean water, regular movement and exercise, sleep, and sensible sun exposure that provides red and near infrared light, all play important roles in supporting healthy levels of collagen throughout your body.
Avoiding pollution whenever possible and using air purifiers to clean your indoor air are other important strategies. Dirty air and even dust particles can speed up your skin aging.
You’ll find whole home, room, auto, and personal air purifiers in my online store that I personally use and recommend.
Once you’ve slowed the damage, how can you rebuild levels of collagen?
Several nutrients can help boost your collagen levels:
Panax or Korean Ginseng increases the amount of Type 1 collagen in your bloodstream by stimulating the production of fibroblasts in the dermis layer of the skin*
Vitamin C is the most plentiful antioxidant in human skin and protects the skin from damaging reactive oxygen species (ROS) and oxidative stress that can lead to collagen breakdown. Vegetables high in vitamin C include broccoli, bell peppers, tomatoes and green leafy vegetables
Antioxidants protect against damaging free radicals and enhance the effects of the collagen you have. Vegetables like kale, spinach and beet greens stimulate collagen production and protect against free radicals
Garlic contains sulfur, an important component for collagen production, and lipoic acid and taurine to help rebuild damaged collagen fibers
And there’s one food in particular that really excels in helping to rebuild your collagen levels...
Scarce in American Diets, yet Abundant in Our Ancestral Diet – and Around the World
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Some people prefer to cook bone broth outdoors because of the smell
Animal protein is an excellent source of collagen, but it’s concentrated mostly in the bones, skin, and tougher cuts of meat that have a lot of connective tissue, including tendons and ligaments - parts we don’t typically eat.
That wasn’t so with our ancestors – or maybe even your own grandmother. Determined to make good use of all the parts of the animal, they would simmer everything in a kettle for days to create a nutrient-dense, flavorful bone broth or stock.
Bone broth is one of the best sources of collagen, and today it’s a staple in the traditional diets of people all around the world. Plus, it’s fast becoming recognized as an incredibly healthy superfood.
Simmering bones and the surrounding joint and connective tissues releases collagen. Cooking turns the collagen into a gelatin.
You need certain amino acids to produce the different types of collagen in your body, and bone broth provides them all: glycine, proline, glutamine, arginine, and hydroxyproline. These amino acids are behind collagen’s many benefits in supporting your skin health, joints and bones, gastrointestinal tract, muscles, and more.*
Plus, bone broth contains easily absorbed minerals that support collagen production like calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulfur, and potassium.
A Simple Solution for Smooth, Firm Skin, a Healthy Gut, and Youthful Joints, Bones, and Muscles
One of the biggest myths – and consumer rip-offs – may be the use of collagen-enhanced creams, ointments and moisturizers. Collagen molecules may be too large to cross your skin barrier into the deeper layers of your skin.
Firm, glowing skin starts inside your body, so it’s important to do all you can to support your production of collagen, and to help protect what you have. The amino acids and other compounds in bone broth have been shown in studies to help not only your skin, but other parts of your body as well:
woman with firm, vibrant skin
Collagen provides the building blocks for firm, vibrant skin
Help form elastin and other compounds in your skin to maintain youthful tone and texture, and to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and lines*
Support digestion by increasing stomach acid and attracting and holding liquids, including digestive juices in your gut*
Helps restore and maintain gut health, as well as support your immune function*
Support your body’s normal detoxification processes as a precursor amino acid for glutathione*
Support muscle growth and energy production during exercise by forming creatine along with two other amino acids*
Support the building of DNA and RNA, the genetic building blocks for healthy cells*
Support your body’s normal healthy inflammatory response*
Promote a feeling of calmness and may even help you sleep*
Good news for your skin, joints, bones, muscles, and gut, researchers have discovered that collagen is absorbed by the digestive tract and travels to the skin and other areas to make new collagen for up to 96 hours.
Help Restore Your Bones and Joint Cartilage with Collagen for Easier, Comfortable Movement
joint cartilage
Your joint cartilage is made up of collagen
You may be surprised to learn that your bones, ligaments, tendons, and joint cartilage are all made up of collagen.
So doesn’t it make sense to use collagen to help restore diminishing levels?
As you age, your joints experience normal wear and tear, robbing you of comfort and flexibility.
The cartilage, or natural cushioning in your joints, also declines with age. Bone broth offers multiple benefits for your joints and bones:
Provides cushioning between bones to help them glide more effortlessly*
Supplies the building blocks to help maintain strong bones and healthy bone mineral density*
Contributes one-third of the amino acids used in building the highly structured collagenous fibers in cartilage*
Is readily absorbable to help restore cartilage and build bones*
Bone broth also contains important compounds known as glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) that support collagen and elastin. You’re probably familiar with at least some of these valuable GAGs – chondroitin sulfate, glucosamine, and hyaluronic acid – as they’re long-cherished by many for healthy joints and comfortable movement!*
Using Bone Broth and Collagen for a Happier, Healthier Gut
bone broth and collagen
Good quality bone broth builds the tissue that lines your colon and GI tract*
The concept of bone broth isn’t new... Physicians as far back as Hippocrates used it for gut-related conditions.
Bone broth is easily digested and offers soothing qualities to your entire gastrointestinal tract. And its nutrients are readily absorbed.
Individuals with digestive challenges may find bone broth especially comforting, especially if their collagen levels are low. Collagen’s amino acids build the tissue that lines the colon and entire GI tract.*
The naturally occurring glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in bone broth also support digestive and gut health by helping to restore your intestinal lining.*
Bone broth, gelatin, and collagen support gut and immune health by helping to:
Restore the normal mucosal layer in the gut and normal intestinal permeability *
Strengthen and seal openings in your gut lining to help counteract food sensitivities*
Aide with the growth of good bacteria and support your healthy microbiome*
Promote a normal inflammatory response in your digestive tract*
I recommend adding bone broth to your daily routine to support your gut health and to improve your total collagen status.
But not just any bone broth or gelatin...
Don’t Be Misled... Not All Bone Broths Are the Same!
factory farmed broths
Many broths are from factory-farmed animals fed a genetically engineered diet
I prefer beef bone broth, as its collagen is similar to the collagen in your own body.
Beef bone broth contains abundant Types I, II, and III collagen as well as other types that are key components in your skin, nails, hair, tendons, ligaments, muscles, bones, joints, gut, and blood vessels.
Homemade beef bone broth from organically raised, grass fed animals provides an ideal source of collagen. Simmering it slowly for one to three days releases the gelatin, minerals, and other nutrients from the bones.
A sign of well-made broth is when it jiggles after being refrigerated. That’s your assurance it contains a healthy supply of gelatin and collagen.
If it doesn’t do that you need to question the quality of your bone broth. For example, canned, store-bought broth and chemical-laden bouillon cubes will not do this, as they are not the same as true bone broth.
Also, most companies use meat flavors created in a lab to flavor bouillon cubes and soup mixes. And manufactured gelatin often contains monosodium glutamate, or MSG, a flavor enhancer and known neurotoxin, so I definitely suggest avoiding it as well.
If you’re purchasing a powdered bone broth product, make sure you know where the collagen comes from.
The vast majority of bone broths on the market are not from organically raised animals, especially chicken bone broths. And they often are diluted and have sugars and flavors added to help improve the taste.
Interestingly, chickens raised in factory farms or CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) tend to produce broth that doesn’t gel – a sure sign that it is lacking in gelatin and collagen.
CAFO animals are typically fed a genetically engineered diet and given antibiotics and growth hormones. The last thing you want is any trace of these potentially harmful additives in your broth.
Unless your broth is made from organic bones, you may be missing out on some of the most nourishing ingredients – and instead getting some unexpected nasty surprises!
Get All the Benefits of Grass Fed Bone Broth Without the Bother of Preparing Your Own Homemade Broth
Don’t care for the taste of bone broth? Too busy to make your own?
Many people don’t savor the taste of bone broth or don’t have the time or willingness to make their own.
For that reason, I’ve created my Organic Collagen from Grass Fed Beef Bone Broth supplement in convenient tablets.
Finally, you can reap all the benefits of bone broth without or the bother of heating even a single cup of water!
Best of all, my Organic Collagen are made with the very finest Certified Organic beef bone broth concentrate powder from grass fed, organically raised cows born and raised in the U.S. without the addition of hormones and antibiotics to their diet.
Bone broth doesn’t get any better...
These convenient tablets are perfect for everyday use. And they’re simple to take along on trips, to work or to school.
Three tablets daily, ideally taken on an empty stomach, provide 1.8 grams of collagen, largely Types I and III as well as Type II for supporting your healthy skin, hair, nails, bones, joints, gut, tendons, ligaments, and blood vessels.*
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Youthful and vibrant looking skin ranks high on nearly everyone’s wish list, so it’s no wonder collagen supplements have become so in-demand!
But are you wasting your money on bone broth ‘wannabes’? Short-changing yourself on valuable benefits?
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What more could you ask for to help turn back the years in your appearance, and provide support for firm, glowing skin, comfortable and flexible joints, strong bones, a healthy gut and more?*
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