The #1 BEST Collagen-RICH Food (That NO ONE Is Talking About)

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Bone broth, pork rinds, and egg whites are some of the most common collagen sources. These collagen-boosting foods are great for your health, but the best collagen-rich food is much less talked about.

You can not get collagen from plants! It must come from an animal source. Vegan collagen sources are typically only collagen-supporting products, such as vitamin C, which is necessary for collagen function. Although collagen comes from animal sources, you don’t get much from meat.

Collagen makes up 30% of the protein in your body. It supports your arteries, joints, and eyes, and prevents sagging skin and wrinkles. After the age of 25, collagen begins to decrease. Without enough collagen, your arteries become stiff, which can lead to high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries. Consuming sugar, starches, and seed oils can deplete collagen faster than aging!

There are multiple types of collagen, so it’s important to consume a variety of collagen-rich foods for the most benefits. Type 1 and type 3 collagen are found in fish skin, chicken skin, and bone broth. They support the skin, bones, and hair.

Type 2 collagen supports the joints and typically comes from cartilage. Types 5 and 10 collagen come from organ meats and the membranes in eggs. These types of collagen support eye health and provide support at the cellular level.

The best collagen-rich food, rarely discussed, contains GAGs that make up your joints, skin, fascia, and cell membranes.

Surprisingly, the best collagen-rich food is rooster comb! You can find rooster comb in a Chinese or Filipino grocery store. You can also purchase them from a local farmer. Rooster comb provides the highest quality collagen to support skin health, joint repair, and gut health. It can also help improve symptoms of osteoarthritis.

Consume the following foods regularly to support a collagen-rich diet:

1. Rooster comb2. Chicken feet3. Fish skin4. Beef tendons 5. Bone broth

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0:00.0	the number one best collagen food that no one's talking about. If you wanted to take your
0:05.1	collagen to the next level and improve your skin, your joints, your cartilage, when people typically
0:10.2	think about collagen, they think about bone broth, pork rinds, egg whites, and all of those
0:15.0	are great. And you need to consume them. Another thing about collagen is that you do not get any
0:20.2	collagen from plants. If you are a vegan, you're you do not get any collagen from plants if you are a vegan
0:23.1	you're not going to get any collagen to get your collagen it must come from an animal source
0:28.1	when you see plant-based collagen products they're mainly collagen supporting products like vitamin
0:34.0	c maybe some minerals things like that and it is true that you need vitamin C for collagen
0:38.8	to work. This is why when someone has scurvy, a severe vitamin C deficiency, they start getting
0:44.2	bleeding gums because the collagen and their gums falls apart. The other thing to know about collagen
0:49.2	is that you don't get a lot of collagen from meat, maybe one to three percent. And out of all your protein in your body,
0:56.2	collagen makes up 30 percent of all that protein. So in other words, if you're trying to get your
1:01.7	collagen from a steak, especially a tender steak without much collagen, you need to go outside
1:07.3	your meat to get your collagen. But meat does provide your protein, your amino acids,
1:12.5	which is different. As we get older, even after the age of 25, your collagen starts going down,
1:17.2	down, down, down. A person that is younger, let's say they're 17 or 18 years old, has the absolute
1:23.1	best collagen. They have joints that have cushions in them. Their spine is super healthy. Another really
1:28.2	important of collagen is to support your arteries because your arteries should be elastic.
1:33.0	When the arteries lose collagen and become stiff, you can get high blood pressure and harding
1:37.1	of the arteries. But collagen provides the scaffolding of your skin to prevent sagging skin or
1:42.8	wrinkles, things like that. And collagen is also important
1:45.3	in your eyes and have the lens be elastic to be able to change its shape. When you consume a lot of
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