Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

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 in 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, the 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 on 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, the boost collagen, is copper.

So copper has a direct effect on making collagen, preventing the loss of collagen,

making a last tin, 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.

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