COLLAGEN
is the most abundant protein in our body and the main structural protein that
ensures the cohesion, elasticity and regeneration of all our connective
tissues, including joints, tendons, ligaments, cartilage and skins as well as
other organ structures and tissues.

Around age 25, the cells begin to lose the ability to synthesise collagen, and its production falls by 1.5% each year. This process is accentuated around the age of 45, and when we get to our sixties, collagen production has fallen by more than 35%. Besides age, there are other factors that intensify the loss of collagen, such as overuse (sports and intense physical activity), trauma,
menopause, obesity and cancer treatments.

It is only found in human and animal tissue, which it makes more cohesive, resistant and flexible. Plants do not contain it, nor do algae.

It is also a large and complex molecule which forms such thick, resistant and insoluble fibres that the human digestive system cannot break them down, so COLLAGEN as such it can not be digested, and therefore assimilated, by our body.

By contrast, ASSIMILABLE OR HYDROLYSED COLLAGEN is a soluble food ingredient made from the fragmentation of the native collagen molecule via a predigestion or hydrolysis. This means that our body can digest it and assimilate it and, therefore, use it as a nutrient.

HYDROLYSED COLLAGEN is made from raw materials rich in this protein: food grade animal
skin, bones, joints, thorns and scales.

• Collagen is the cement that holds it all together.
• Collagen is the body’s most important building block
  and it makes up approximately 30% of the proteins in our bodies.
• Collagen is the main structural protein that ensures the cohesion, elasticity and regeneration of all our connective tissues, including skin, tendons, ligaments, cartilage and bones.

The antioxidant peptide of collagen can help regenerate active oxygen and free radicals in the body, maintain the dynamic balance of redox in the body's cells, delay or inhibit lipid peroxidation, and prevent the occurrence of oxidative stress diseases such as cancer and asthma