Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you

on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights.

I would like to discuss the number one nutrient in boosting your collagen. Now, it's not vitamin C,

even though vitamin C definitely helps collagen, but it's something else. Now, what is collagen?

Collagen is that protein that connects everything together. Out of all the protein your body,

about 35% of it is collagen. So it's a connective tissue. It makes up your cartilage, your muscles,

your tendons, your ligaments, your eyes, the fascia, the stuff that holds all your muscles together. It's below your skin right on top of your

muscles. It makes up your bone, even your teeth, and it's all around your skin. And I think a lot of

people are trying to boost their collagen by consuming collagen when in fact they're missing something

else. And this talk is inspired by this book that I've been reading, soil grass

in cancer, a link between human and animal health and the mineral balance in the soil. It's a

fascinating book on nutrition, talking about the relationship between the animals that we eat

and the animals that eat the grass that comes from certain soils. So if there's

some mineral missing on the soil, it's going to be missing in the plant, which the animals eat,

and then we eat the animals, so we're going to be deficient as well. And the number one nutrient

to boost collagen is copper. So copper has a direct effect on making collagen, preventing the loss of collagen,

making elastin, which is a protein that supports the structural integrity of collagen. And so this

trace mineral needed in a very small amount is necessary in the enzymes that allow proteins to form.

And so the copper enzymes are all about structural integrity.

So if you are deficient in copper, there are several things that can happen with your body

tissue.

Number one, it can lead to something called sway back or lordosis.

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