Collagen Is NOT About Your Skin
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
What does collagen do? If you’re only using collagen for your skin, you’re missing out on the many collagen benefits for gut health, joints, and more. Discover the powerful hidden benefits of collagen in this video.
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0:00 Introduction: Collagen benefits explained
0:14 Collagen is more than skincare
1:06 Side effects of collagen deficiency
2:20 Collagen and vitamin C
4:00 What causes collagen deficiency?
6:36 Increasing collagen intake
Although collagen decreases with age, the modern diet is significantly lacking in collagen, especially when compared to the diet of our ancestors.
About 30% of the protein in your body is collagen, yet most people consume very little. Collagen deficiency can impact your bones, heart, gut lining, skin, teeth, gums, and overall health. When collagen is low, your body prioritizes the most essential functions.
Collagen deficiency is largely driven by the modern diet of lean, boneless, skinless meats, along with high sugar intake, chronic stress, and poor sleep.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 61, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
Disclaimer:
Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.*Dr. Eric Berg, DC is not AI-generated. AI-enhanced elements may be used in this video for production purposes..
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| 0:00.0 | Collagen is not about your skin. So many people associate collagen with beauty supplements. |
| 0:06.0 | That is actually the lowest thing on the list as far as what I can do for you. Let me reveal |
| 0:10.4 | what collagen really does in your body and it's going to blow your mind. It's absolutely true |
| 0:14.8 | that as we ate, your collagen goes down. We don't get enough collagen. The low amount of collagen |
| 0:19.2 | shows up on our skin as wrinkles, |
| 0:20.9 | but it also shows up in our gut, in our arteries, in our gums, and our organs. It has to do with |
| 0:27.7 | something called ancestral mismatch, I mean even just 50 years ago. People ain't differently than |
| 0:33.4 | they eat now. And we removed a really key structural protein out of our diet, and this is called collagen. |
| 0:40.2 | First of all, if we look at protein on your body, you might think muscles. |
| 0:43.8 | The protein also involves tendons, ligaments, fascia, which is your biological wetsuit, that |
| 0:49.9 | actually holds everything together. |
| 0:51.7 | But out of all the protein that you have in your body, 30% of |
| 0:55.3 | its collagen, that we only consume a very small part of that collagen. Now, our body does make some |
| 1:03.0 | collagen, but we're usually in the deficit. Let's first talk about the chalk effect with your |
| 1:09.3 | bones. I know typically people think |
| 1:11.4 | bones, calcium, if you have bone loss, it's really about calcium, not true at all. |
| 1:18.4 | One third of your bones are collagen, that's right. So yes, calcium is involved, okay? |
| 1:24.4 | But collagen actually helps prevent fractures. And so it's not just about |
| 1:29.9 | calcium. Another very important biological function is your heartbeat. And I'm talking about your |
| 1:37.4 | heart vows. Every single day, your heart opens and closes a hundred thousand times. And also so they call mitroviral valve prolapse is actually |
| 1:47.7 | very, very common as well. One in 40 people have a mitral valve prolapse. And this has everything |
| 1:54.0 | to do with a flappy valve that's not closing correctly. And then also aneurysms. That's a problem |
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