Collagen Supplements: What's the Hype All about? // SPARTAN HEALTH 030
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
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🗓️ 9 June 2019
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Summary
The popularity of collagen is skyrocketing. It’s especially effective in compensating for problems related to our bones and our skin as we age. Although human beings start out making collagen naturally, as people get older, they become less capable of absorbing nutrients or synthesizing them. In that case, collagen-rich foods and supplements can compensate for deficiencies. Collagen is also the most abundant protein in your body so you might want to know a bit about it.
Collagen can help a lot with arthritis, a painful disease in which the body has an autoimmune response against its own cartilage. There’s a few theories as to why this helps relieve joint pain. One is that it might accumulate in the cartilage and stimulate production of more cartilage. Another, is that that this supplementation might not replace collagen due to the autoimmune response. Instead, it may lessen the severity of the autoimmune response itself by increasing the body’s tolerance of (or familiarity with) collagen through repeated exposure!
Sarcopenia is losing muscle mass (often as we grow older.) This condition increases the possibility of falls and bone breaks. Luckily, there are ways to reduce the rate of this loss. A recent study noted that a combination of weight training and the use of collagen supplemention can help. In that study, a group taking collagen derived from chickens increased their muscle strength and their fat free muscle mass at a much higher rate than the control group.
Finally, collagen can also help with maintaining the elasticity of your skin. It’s a common problem: aging skin can get wrinkly. While the sun has its own impact on your skin, aging alone can decrease the quality and the quantity of collagen your skin uses. Oral administration of bovine collagen can compensate for those decreases and help maintain a youthful look.
There are collagen supplements that are widely available. One of the most familiar might be bone broth, which takes collagen out of the bones of chicken, fish or beef. You’re right to be concerned about what exactly is the source of that collagen. Supplements using animal parts from cows or ground up hooves might make consumers think twice. You’ll feel more assured if you look for companies that acquire their collagen (bones and tissues) from cage-free, free-range, and antibiotic-free sources.
Collagen: “Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body, found in the bones, muscles, skin, and tendons. It is the substance that holds the body together. Collagen forms a scaffold to provide strength and structure. Endogenous collagen is natural collagen, synthesized by the body. Exogenous collagen is synthetic. It comes from an outside source, such as supplements.” (Medical News Today)
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| 0:00.0 | The popularity of collagen is skyrocketing. It's especially effective in compensating for problems related to our bones and our skin as we age. |
| 0:10.0 | Although human beings start out making collagen naturally, as we get older, we become less capable of absorbing nutrients or synthesizing them. |
| 0:18.5 | In that case, collagen-rich foods and supplements can compensate for those deficiencies. |
| 0:24.3 | Collagen is also the most abundant protein in your body so you might want to know a bit |
| 0:30.1 | about it. I'm Dr Nada. I created the Integrative Health Program at Mass General Hospital |
| 0:35.2 | and I'm the founder of Sage Tonic, an innovative and natural treatment toolbox. |
| 0:39.8 | Welcome to this episode of Spartan Health. |
| 0:45.0 | Collagen is typically only derived from animal products. |
| 0:48.0 | Although there are some marine collagens on the market, |
| 0:51.0 | so you might want to pay some attention to the sources of the |
| 0:54.0 | supplements you use. Collagen has been shown to have positive effects on a |
| 0:59.2 | variety of problems and today we're going to look at a few of them arthritis |
| 1:03.7 | sarcopenea which is loss of muscle mass and skin elasticity |
| 1:08.0 | so first of all arthritis collagen can help a lot with arthritis and that's a painful disease in which the body has an autoimmune response against its own cartilage. |
| 1:18.0 | One supportive measure you can take to help mitigate or lessen repeated joint stress is to use collagen orally or |
| 1:26.0 | through a capsule or powder. There's a few theories as to why this helps relieve |
| 1:30.6 | joint pain. One is that it might accumulate in the cartilage and |
| 1:34.5 | stimulate production of more cartilage. Another is that this supplementation |
| 1:39.4 | might not replace collagen due to the autoimmune response. Instead, it may lessen the severity of the |
| 1:45.7 | autoimmune response itself by increasing the body's tolerance to collagen through repeated exposure. |
| 1:53.0 | Either way, it can be a really big help. |
| 1:56.0 | Next condition, sarcopeneia. |
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