When type I and III
collagen are in balance, skin looks healthy.
Not exact matches
Collagen powder, especially of the hydrolyzed type, can
be dissolved
in coffee, tea or other liquids and
is a great way to get a high quality, well
balanced protein
in your diet.
«Wrinkles on the face
are a natural result of a reduction
in collagen, so finding products with ingredients aiming to restore the
balance can help reduce their appearance,» says Cotterill.
Furthermore, they
are also loaded with skin - essential vitamin C for
collagen production; however, berries can also play an important role
in balancing the good and bad bacteria of the gut by acting as a naturally occurring prebiotic fiber.
On a
balanced diet, one of vitamin C's roles
in the body
is to form
collagen, but Phinney says that the amino acids you get from a large meat intake get the job done without it.
Collagen has anti-estrogenic properties that help offset the effects of excess estrogen
in the body, so I think it would
be extremely helpful for you (that
's one of the reasons it
's so great for
balancing hormones, too!).
Bovine tracheal cartilage
is also rich
in glycosaminoglycans which maintain and support
collagen, elastin and turgidity (bounce)
in the cellular spaces and keep protein fibers
in balance and proportion.
Because
collagen makes up approximately 50 % of the whole animal, gelatin can
be used to help create a more complete protein
balance in our diet.
One particular bioactive peptide called calcitonin has
been of special interest
in these studies, because a human form of calcitonin
is made
in the human body by the thyroid gland, and we know that it
is a key hormone for helping regulate and stabilize the
balance of
collagen and minerals
in the bone and surrounding tissue.