All right, everyone, today's episode of Heal Thyself. Thank you for joining.

This is the newest one. This is going to be a really good one. I say it all the time.

Obviously, thank you for supporting the show doing everything you can

so this is the show you've been waiting for for quite a while I will be reviewing

collagen all the different types of collagen ranked from most transparent to the best ones to maybe I'd stay away from them.

So I really hope you guys find a lot of value on this show and then I have an awesome, awesome

guest, a close friend of mine, Dr. Jade, and he is totally

a metabolism, guru, anything you ever wanted to know about just overall health and weight loss,

weight gain, whatever you're looking for, you got to listen to him.

All right, so without further ado, I'm going to go right into it.

Let's get to the knowledge bomb.

All right, so before we get into the best and worst brands for collagen, I really want you

all to understand what collagen is and why people are using it.

It's a main structural protein in the body

and it's found all throughout, all different types of areas,

and I'll tell you where, mostly,

but it's the most abundant protein overall,

with 25 to 30% of the body being collagen. You see it most in skin, which is why the

beauty industry has gone really hard on the collagen, cartilage, ligaments, tendons,

bones, and it gives us structure so we're not like just a puddle of skin with two eyes on the floor, but it gives our body strength and structure, but also stability and flexibility.

So in terms of skin, let's think about a little baby

when you pinch a baby's cheek and it has that reflex back right it's nice and

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