Ready to live at the higher vibrations where peace, love, joy, and good health are the daily

standard.

That's what this show is all about.

Welcome to Vibe.

And here's your host, Robin Openshaw.

Hey everyone, Robin Openshaw here. Welcome back to The Vibe Show. And today we're talking about a

multi-billion dollar industry that has convinced us that we can eat our way back to youth by

consuming ground up animal parts. I'm talking about the collagen craze.

So walk into any health store and you're going to see like starbursts like candy chews.

You're going to see powders that promise glowy skin and capsules that claim to rebuild your knees.

It's a brilliant marketing narrative because collagen is, after all, the most abundant protein in your knees. It's a brilliant marketing narrative because collagen is after all the most

abundant protein in your body. It's the glue that holds your skin, joints, and tendons together.

It's the most common protein in your body. You have literally trillions of them. So the marketing

logic goes, if you are losing some of it or you

might be deficient or you might even just guess that you are, just eat it. Like eat the starburst

chew. Then you maybe I'll have enough. But biology doesn't work like a Lego set where you just

snap a piece on. So today we're debunking the collagen

myth, which I hope saves you a lot of money, explaining the peptide fallacy and showing you

how to actually move the needle on your health without wasting 50 bucks a month on glorified candy.

So the stomach is kind of like the great destructor. Let's start with the hard truth.

Your body does not have a collagen elevator that takes a gummy from your mouth and drops it off

at your left knee or the fine lines around your eyes. When you swallow collagen, whether it's

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