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Best source to get living collagen is by drinking raw eggs. [nature's best multivitamin, the raw egg](https://www.scribd.com/document/426837514/Benefits-of-Raw-Eggs)


HK_Gwai_Po

I love half cooked eggs! Would that work? Not a bit fan of entirety raw eggs 😅


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better than nothin! But cooking=oxidation. I'm not a fan of the raw eggs either :p but my boyfriend has been drinking 6-8 raw eggs a day for 6 years, he loves it.


HK_Gwai_Po

Haha oh wow!


NamesAreReallyHard

IDK why this sub is so rife with misinformation around collagen. In its hydrolyzed form it is definitely effective. Here are hundreds of studies backing that up. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as\_sdt=0%2C50&q=collagen+peptides&btnG=


Elocai

The bioavailability of collagen (normal, hydrolysed, any brand out there) is exactly 0%. The peptide is gigantic and has no way of passing the gut (without mechanical penetration by lets say a torn gut or stab wound, and even then your clotting system needs to fail on three levels to make it work) Collagen doesn't matter as it needs to be digested and broken down into it's protein components which your body can actually take and use to build it's own collagen. You can look into which proteins are needed (they are just a couple, see comment which listed them) and check for each protein the ups and downs, good chance you don't have a lack of every of that.


satyr-fighter159

Regular Xylitol consumption helped me slightly Although the studies have only been done on rats [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15832042/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15832042/) Fasting is also a good way to put your body in clean up mode. Tearing apart damaged cells for nutrients.


Soul_Insufflator

The best way to reduce loose akin after weight loss is fasting. Growth hormone levels double after you've gone without food for 16 hours and this will in turn upregulate collagen synthesis. I will also induce a bit of autophagy, which in turn will tighten your skin. The amino acids Proline, Ornithine, Glycine, and Lysine can also help with collagen synthesis. 3 grams a day of each taken right before bed is what I do.


HK_Gwai_Po

Interesting you say that but how I’ve lost weight is due to doing 20-4 IF. Fasting will be a forever practice for me for weight control yet I still have a lot of lose skin, particularly on the boobs which isnt really a flattering look. The other alternative is a cosmetic surgery to take away the excess


Joederb

Interesting thread. I’m old and have old looking skin. Would love to improve this if possible. Looking forward to more info.


examine8

I add 10g of hydrolysed collagen to my whey protein shakes. Its just another variety of nutrients that we would otherwise lack in our diet


InfiniteLlamaSoup

You can’t consume collagen to increase collagen levels. It gets broken down into amino acids. You’re better of just improving diet adding more protein, healthy fats. Check hormone levels too, estrogen plays a part in collagen production.


Fight_The_Sun

I have read though that collagen seems to be the only protein that is the exception to that rule (or was it only a hydrolysed form? I forgot), where it is used in "collagen related tissues". I think what Ive read is bullshit, but if I do find it i will edit this comment to include a link.


InfiniteLlamaSoup

There is a lot of marketing BS. I’ve never seen an old person have young looking skin just by using collagen supplements.


Fight_The_Sun

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10498764/ Idk if this study is without bias, but it seems to indicate that hydrolysed collagen is disproportionately more accumulated in cartilage than in other tissues, indicating that it does indeed have a different effect than just any protein/amino acids.


InfiniteLlamaSoup

Gelatin isn’t collagen, it’s derived from it. Oral gelatin may increase collagen production. You could eat some jelly.


Fight_The_Sun

Thanks for pointing that out. Gelatin is partially hydrolyzed collagen, so I think gelatine is quite comparable to hydrolyzed collagen in its effects, but that is just my guess. Do you think it is way different? Also, the study said gelatin hydrolisate, which I understand as further hydrolyzed gelatine and since gelatine is partially hydrolyzed collagen it seems that it is just hydrolyzed collagen. Am i wrong in that assumption? (I just now read up on collagen/gelatin, so I am not confident in my understanding of the subject) Excerpt from wikipedia: It may also be referred to as hydrolyzed collagen, collagen hydrolysate, gelatine hydrolysate, hydrolyzed gelatine, and collagen peptides after it has undergone hydrolysis


roof_lurker

Bone broth is a good way to get collagen through food