Dr. Anthony Youn
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Dhru Purohit Show
4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
I think it's important for people to realize too that there are five types of collagen. It's not like there's just one collagen. That's something you want to look at too with the products that you're using. For example, some people will take collagen supplements because they have joint issues. Maybe if you've got fibromyalgia, if you've got muscle aches.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
And those did include three really important ones, vitamin C,
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So type one collagen is the one that I typically focus on being a plastic surgeon. That's in our skin, essentially, and our hair and our nails. And there are some collagens that really just supplements that just focus on type one. Type two collagen is collagen that's in our muscles and type three is in our joints. And so you do want to focus on the right types of collagen too.
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Some collagens like the one that we have has all three, in which case you can kind of help potentially with a number of different potential issues. Type four and five collagen really don't really enter the conversation so much. Type four is in our kidneys and type five is in our placenta. So those you don't really need to worry about.
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protein and iron so we do know you know there is this claim that holistic health practitioners will make that our soil is depleted that our industrial farming practices have caused our fruits and vegetables to be less nutritious than they used to be and this is actually proof for that this was actually a scientific study that that proved that that is true and that that study ended in 1999
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
But the other three, I think it's important to realize that if you do get a collagen supplement, find out what types of collagen are in those because you want to make sure that you are taking the right one for your potential, your specific needs.
Dhru Purohit Show
4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
Yeah, I think inflammation, you know, sugar is a huge part of it. And so as far as avoidance, that's super, super important. And with AGEs, the advanced glycation end products, the main thing that I look at that causes those to be created basically is sugar. But you can actually get advanced glycation end products in certain types of foods as well.
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And typically those are animal-based, high-fat foods that... Worst case scenario are ultra processed and heated to super high temperatures. So for example, and this is really sad, but the type of food with the most amount of advanced glycation end products is bacon. And yeah, not good.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
And so these advanced glycation end products you can get not just from, unfortunately, just from sugar, but you can also get it from other types of foods. If you grill a steak on the grill, that can also be, you know, potentially high levels of advanced glycation end products. So you're talking once again, things that will age you. Margarine has a lot of advanced glycation end products as well.
Dhru Purohit Show
4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
Correct. And I think that's part of it. You know, one of the things I always try to preach to my followers is, you know, it's like you can follow people on social media who appear to have like the perfect healthy lifestyle where, you know, they're doing everything possible. They're eating all whole foods. They're exercising every day. They're doing cold plunges. They're in the sauna.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
And reality is that the majority of Americans are just trying to make a living and stay as healthy as they can while they take care of their kids, while they try to put food on the table and stuff. And so really what I try to encourage people is just like you said, is don't feel guilty if you're at your kid's friend's barbecue and you have a dog from the grill. That's okay.
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It's like 24 years later. So now we got to wonder just how bad is it now? So nutrient depletion is something that we are dealing with as we get older. That's one reason why I'm a big fan of supplements and supplements, something I do cover in the book. But the other thing that you have to think about is, like you mentioned before, is collagen.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
It's just, it's a pattern of behavior where if you're eating so much of that, that it can be very harmful. But at the same time, we do have to live life and part of living life is enjoying it as well.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
And I think too, I think you'll see too, as you get healthier and healthier for those people who are making these changes is that you'll find that you don't wanna have those foods all the time because they start making you feel kind of crummy.
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And I do think that there is a huge segment of the American population who just chronically doesn't feel good, but they don't realize they don't because this is just their natural level of living. They don't know what it feels like to truly feel energetic and healthy because they've never been given that type of a diet and have been on that type of activity and all of that.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
Yeah. And I think when you look at me being a plastic surgeon, you look at your outer appearance, that can really impact how you feel about yourself too. And about being healthy, some people say, well, what is beauty? And my first thing would be beauty is really is health. in general.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
And so being healthy, that's oftentimes really for what I try to recommend as a first step to feeling beautiful about yourself. And so just like you said, that makes complete sense.
Dhru Purohit Show
4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
So nutrient depletion is something I think that's really important. I don't have a lot of solutions for it. Really, it's going to be looking at your macronutrients. It's going to be potentially taking a multivitamin. But where you really, for me, I get into the actionable things is when you do look at collagen and how our skin does... lose collagen and the thickness of collagen.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
So you only need to look at the US presidents when they enter office and then when they exit office four or eight years later to know that stress is a huge ager of our body.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
Yeah. I mean, it's obvious that that's what happens. And so there aren't studies that I know of that have specifically looked because how do you quantify stress? That's the problem. How do you do a study on somebody who's really stressed and see their aging process. It's just there is no way I know of to actually do that.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
But we do know in general that there are certain activities that can reduce your stress that do actually help you to feel and look younger. And so one of the big parts of my book is talking about some of these strategies, including meditation,
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and how meditation can be huge in reducing the amount of stress that you have and even in improving your appearance i'm a huge fan of yoga yoga i think especially as we get older so many benefits not only just to to our stress level but also to mobility and to balance and actually your appearance potentially can be very very important and then sleep being a huge part of that as well i think that's something that our
Dhru Purohit Show
4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
that our society has really failed us in teaching is how to deal with stress. And really the difference, like I mentioned earlier about acute inflammation and chronic inflammation, there's a big difference between acute stress and chronic stress. And acute stress being something that is a big focus for anti-aging experts and longevity experts is being a good thing.
Dhru Purohit Show
4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
So I definitely want to get into that because I think nutrient depletion is something that is super important to realize you have covered it so well throughout your podcast. I don't have new solutions there other than making sure that you follow your macros.
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Hence, all these people jumping into cold bathtubs and trying to stay in them for as long as they can versus chronic stress, which is a stress that so many of us here, especially in the United States, and even really around the country, around the world, are dealing with when you've got stress of paying your bills, when you have stress from work, obligations, and all of that.
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That definitely is aging to our bodies. And so trying to take ourselves out of that as much as we can, I think, is so, so important.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
You know, I think that there is. I think once again, the problem is how do you quantify that? You know, when you look at stress, like we have studies that have looked at taking, let's say, vitamin C. People who have a diet high in vitamin C, there are studies that show that they have less wrinkles than people who have lower diets, lower in vitamin C.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
But the big question is, is how do you quantify stress and its effects on wrinkles? Just real quick, just all of a sudden it brought me back. We talked about collagen. It's the same idea and similar. Like one of the things I think that there's a,
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
We can make, in medicine, we can make conclusions based off of what we see in general that may not be quote unquote evidence-based, where we may not actually have a scientific study specifically that can support it. But we know by looking at the facts on the ground that this is most likely true. Exactly.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
And one of those, just to bring up, because it's something that really is kind of becoming dogma in holistic health, but has never actually been proven true, is bone broth and its effects on the skin. Okay, so we talked a lot about collagen just a few minutes ago. And I have friends of mine, colleagues of mine who say, oh, you take bone broth, it's going to make your skin better.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
I think there's definitely a big trend towards protein that people don't realize how protein deficient we are, especially as we get older and with sarcopenia. But I would like to pivot towards collagen if that's okay. Can I interject before you pivot into collagen? Sure.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
It's going to improve the collagen of your skin. And it makes sense because bone broth, you take it and, you know, and you cool it down and it becomes a gelatin and that's basically pure collagen. But there is no study to show that taking a bone broth, that drinking bone broth at all will improve your skin. There's zero studies to support that.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
But, Drew, there are zero studies to say that it doesn't do it. And the studies just haven't been done. So, you know, unfortunately, like in traditional medicine, then, you know, you will have a physician that say, well, bone broth doesn't make your skin better. Where are the studies to prove it makes your skin better? And there aren't any.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
But at the same time, does that mean that your negative conclusion is true? That then because there are no studies to support that bone broth doesn't improve your skin, it must not improve your skin? No. Like once again, we can use deductive reasoning to say, okay, bone broth is filled with collagen. Collagen supplements have been shown to improve the skin.
Dhru Purohit Show
4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
So it makes sense that bone broth should improve your skin too.
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I am. Yes. Yeah. And I think that that definitely is something that if you do want to improve the collagen of your skin and you like the taste of it, then by all means, that's something that I do definitely recommend. And that goes back to what you mentioned before is that our ancestors would eat the whole animal.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
And that's one of the benefits of bone broth is you take those parts of the animal that normally we wouldn't necessarily consume in our society and you can use that for good means essentially.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
Yeah, so free radicals, once again, that's oxidation, huge cause of aging of the skin. I mean, years ago, people thought that that was the main reason that we age, period, was free radicals. Now I think we know better that that's a component, but not necessarily the only reason why we age.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
So put it very simply, free radicals can damage collagen, essentially, can damage our DNA of our skin because of the process of oxidation. So free radicals are essentially these molecules that are damaged that try to steal electrons from essentially our healthy cells. And by doing that, they can actually damage then the DNA of our cells and cause the cells to essentially prematurely age.
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So free radicals are something that is a byproduct of our natural metabolism. So just being alive, your body creates free radicals. So that's not necessarily a negative thing. But the problem is, is that in our society, and even based off the food that we eat, our body can get overrun by free radicals. And so you can get free radicals by eating certain types of food.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
The type of food that is most filled with free radicals in general are the ultra processed foods. So yes, foods can contain free radicals. Also, you can get free radicals from things like pollution, from smoking, from different types of lifestyle things. Actually, exercising can create its own free radicals.
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that being said when free radicals can become a problem is when your body gets overrun by them your body will create antioxidants naturally antioxidants essentially donate the electron to the free radical to neutralize it so that does not then damage the cells of our body And our body will generate its own antioxidants as a way to combat free radicals.
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4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
But when there's so many free radicals that are essentially attacking your body, you know, from once again, those types of activities from those types of foods, and you enter a state of oxidative stress. And that's when the free radicals are excessive and your body is essentially prematurely aging from it. So what is your body's natural defense against free radicals?
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Well, once again, antioxidants, and you can actually take antioxidants by mouth, and you can apply it onto your skin. And that's what I usually recommend as a kind of a two pronged approach. Now, interestingly enough, okay, you know, one of the big things with my book, and I'm a big fan of integrative medicine is combining the holistic with
Dhru Purohit Show
4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
And as a traditionally trained plastic surgeon, that's something that I always am looking at traditional medicine as the gold standard for evidence-based medicine, but it does lack, unfortunately, a lot of things. Interestingly, Drew, if you were to ask one of our holistic practitioner friends, what's the best way to get beautiful, healthy skin?
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They would say, heal your gut and then your skin will follow. If you ask a dermatologist, what's the best way to get healthy, youthful skin? They'll say, wear sunscreen and use a retinol. And if you ask a plastic surgeon, they'll say, have a facelift, get some Botox, maybe a laser treatment.
Dhru Purohit Show
4 Key Factors That Contribute to Skin Aging
And really in the end, it's combining the best of both worlds, I think, that's going to be your best option. And so when you look at antioxidants, it's consuming them, okay, in foods, but it's also applying it to the surface of your skin as well.
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are your favorite foods that you would be telling people even as basic as it might seem it's that reminder about the power of like food as medicine so let's talk about foods first and then we'll go to topical so yeah the big thing with antioxidants is that you want to eat the rainbow and this is something you've heard on your show if you've been following drew for a long time you've heard this this said before but eating the rainbow fruits and vegetables is super important because the it's the actual pigment
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in the fruit or the vegetable that is the antioxidant. And so if you eat, let's say a green leafy vegetable, you're gonna get different antioxidants than if you eat like an orange fruit versus if you eat a yellow vegetable.
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And so the idea is by eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables in a plethora of different colors, and you're gonna get a variety of different antioxidants that's gonna give you even better protection overall. And so that's in general what I recommend. Now, ideally too, there are certain, especially fruits that have a higher glycemic index than other types of fruits.
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And so essentially they may raise your blood pressure faster. And we mentioned earlier about sugar being a cause of inflammation. So ideally staying with some of the lower glycemic index fruits, if you can.
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uh fruits essentially berries are a really good source of great antioxidants lower glycemic index so you can kind of help with the inflammation part of it and you can help with the oxidation part of it at the same time so that's going to be my favorite type of fruit with vegetables you know i'm a big fan of green green leafy vegetables and darker green leafy vegetables like spinach i think is great kale all those i think are really really good but ideally you do want to focus once again on the rainbow it's not good if all you eat are green leafy vegetables if all you eat are just
Dhru Purohit Show
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you know orange fruits you really want to mix it up yeah people can even toss in things like kimchi right kind of like that you grew up eating kimchi yes and so you know that too when you talk about inflammation there are inflammation reducing foods i think that are super important and you know when i look at inflammation reducing foods you know going back i know we're talking about free radicals but when you go back to inflammation and kimchi is a huge thing um
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We can go into that. We can go into that later on. Yeah.
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i look at two main ways to reduce inflammation in the diet okay and that would be eating monounsaturated uh fatty acids and omega-3 fatty acid rich foods and then eating um probiotic rich foods as well okay and so there are foods we mentioned earlier that add to the inflammation in our body. There are foods that can reduce inflammation.
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So for the omega-3 fatty acids, you're looking at cold water fish. So salmon, tuna, trout, mackerel, that type of thing. For monounsaturated fatty acids, olive, olive oil, olives, olive oil, avocados, nuts, and seeds, I think are great sources. And then the other group, once again, is gonna be hitting the microbiome. And I'm happy to go over that. That is where kimchi kind of comes into play here.
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Yeah. And that's one thing is when you do look at free radicals and oxidation, fried foods, ultra processed and fried foods are the two big sources that you want to try to avoid, period. But it's tough because in our society, it's just everywhere. And so trying to do your best to try to avoid that definitely is a way to go.
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Yeah, I mean, if you're visiting from the Midwest and you come to California and you want to try an In-N-Out for once, feel free. I mean, it's kind of a rite of passage when you come to California because we don't have it out east. But at the same time, it's like my wife used to, when my kids were young, they would say, okay, this is a sometime food and this is an all the time food.
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And that is going to be a very much a sometime food.
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Well, and I think, and what you're hitting too is that a lot of this overlaps, you know, and so you're talking about ultra processed foods and ultra processed foods actually are super important when you look at free radicals and oxidation that a lot of people don't realize, you know, and when you're talking about
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um you know with also with inflammation and with having whole foods versus some of these ultra processed foods the idea really is is that you want to get back to that that diet that i mentioned earlier where you can actually name like what that food is made out of versus these products that you don't even know what they're constructed of and it's the idea of hyper palatability but the fact is is that there is a difference between the food that you eat that's natural that
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Really, in some ways, nature has made food so that naturally you're not going to overeat it. So how often do you have a bowl of strawberries and you overeat those strawberries? How often do you have chicken and you just overeat necessarily just chicken?
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Whereas you get a can of potato chips or a bag of popcorn or French fries, and it's so much easier to overeat those because they're hyperpalatable. They're literally scientifically... made for you to overeat them so that they can essentially make more money off of you. And so, yes, I think when you're looking at nutrient depletion, it's a very simple thing to look at, but it's so, so important.
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So, you know, I mentioned earlier collagen, 70 to 80% of the thickness of what your skin is made out of is composed of collagen. We lose the collagen literally 1% every year. So how do you then replenish the collagen? Well, once again, like I mentioned earlier, protein. Collagen is a large protein.
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And some people ask me, they'll say, well, if I take a collagen supplement and I use a collagen cream, is that going to replenish the collagen in my skin? Well, collagen is a large protein. And the first thing I want your readers, I'm sorry, your listeners to know is that collagen creams make zero sense, okay? Collagen is a large protein. Our skin is a barrier and it's made to keep things out.
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Collagen being so large, if you put it on the surface of your skin, it's just going to sit there. It's not going to absorb into your skin and it's not going to make your skin any more youthful. So the first thing I recommend is staying away from collagen creams. I mean, if you want to spend the extra money for it, that's fine, but essentially it's just going to be a fancy moisturizer.
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Collagen supplements are a whole different thing. And as you know, they are very controversial. I made a post on TikTok a couple of years ago touting the benefits of a collagen supplement. And oh my gosh, Drew, the hate was everywhere.
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There are physician, traditional physicians. There are like athletic trainer types, you know, who fashion themselves as nutritionists and things, and then just lay people. You know, saying, well, my doctor said this. It's a lot of my doctor said, my family doctor said collagen doesn't work. Interestingly enough, there's a doctor on TikTok and he's big on social media.
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He is a cardiologist, traditionally trained. Also, he's had some nutrition training as well. He's got a big bushy beard. He's an older guy and he speaks with clarity and he's very positive and confident in his work.
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in what he says and in his conclusions and he made a video basically stating that collagen supplements don't work and if you want if you're going to try a collagen supplement just save your money and get gelatin it's the same thing and i didn't reply to it i'm not going to get an argument with another physician but i disagreed with it and very interestingly literally like
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a month and a half ago, I saw that video reappear on social media. And as the video is about over, he shows up, he swipes it out of the screen, and he says, I was wrong. Wow. Yeah, he said, I did the research. Collagen supplements do work. They do improve your skin. And I was wrong.
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It floored me because how often do you see a 65-year-old physician who speaks whenever they're out there, what they say is right, to come back and say that what they said was not true?
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Yeah, and really then when you, so what does the science say? And really that's what it comes down to. Because people say, okay, collagen supplements don't work. The main argument is that it's a large protein, which is true. And if you ingest it, your body will break it down. And how do you know that it actually gets to your skin or where you want it to go?
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And really the fact of the matter is, is when you look at collagen supplements, make sure that the supplement that you take is made of hydrolyzed collagen peptides.
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And that's super important because once again, collagen being a large molecule, when you actually take a hydrolyzed collagen supplement, that collagen protein has been broken down into amino acids, which are the single units of protein, and their peptides, which are groups of two or three amino acids or so. And that's done on purpose so that your body can actually absorb it.
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So there was actually a study that looked at fruits and vegetables in the United States from the years 1950 to 1999. And it looked at their different number of different nutrients and it looked at them year by year and how much of these nutrients they basically had. And they found a statistically significant reduction in at least six different key nutrients in our produce from 1950 to 1999.
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So it's like the argument that they have in that your body won't absorb it, it will break it down. Yeah, that's why it's made the way that it is. That's why it's hydrolyzed and that's why high quality collagen supplements typically are hydrolyzed collagen peptides.
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And then when you actually look at the scientific studies, the studies, there are so many of them and they're powerful studies that do show collagen supplements do create an effect. There was a meta analysis of over, I think it was over like 1200 people published back in 2021.
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And they looked at people taking collagen supplements for 90 days and they found a statistically significant improvement in the hydration of the skin, in fine lines and wrinkles and in the elasticity of the skin. and that was a meta-analysis, so it's a group of multiple studies that they put together for higher power.
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There even have been studies that have looked at collagen supplements where you put somebody on a collagen supplement for two months, randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials, and then you actually take a biopsy of their skin afterwards and you can see that the skin has thicker collagen and the skin is thicker afterwards. I don't know what other proof is needed.
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Some people will say, well, maybe if you just increase the protein intake, that will do the same thing. And truthfully, I have not seen a study comparing increasing protein intake to taking a collagen supplement. That would be something that would be very interesting.
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But there are a lot of studies that are out there that do show that taking collagen supplements can create a profound impact on the skin.
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So full disclosure, I have my own skincare and supplement line. And so we do sell our own supplement. That's actually a collagen supplement. That's our number one seller actually for supplements. As far as me, I think it's pretty simple. The best collagen supplement, there's some supplements out there.
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The one that we have, it's tasteless, which is great, but there's some you can, if you taste it, it does have a little bit of a beefy taste to it. So you got to try them ones and see what you like. But in general, a good hydrolyzed collagen supplement should... dissolve into any type of a hot liquid.
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So if you like tea in the morning or if you like coffee, for me now, I used to drink a lot of decaf coffee and I would put in my decaf coffee. And then I went to the dentist and my dentist is like, you've been drinking a lot of coffee lately and you're getting some staining of your teeth. So now I actually just mix it with hot water and it just tastes like hot water.
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And so that's what I have a lot of mornings now throughout the week. The other thing you can do is you can mix it into a smoothie or a smoothie bowl. I think that's a nice way to do it as well.
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Yeah, because those capsules, essentially, they're just filled with the powder inside. I take other supplements as capsules. I don't want to take more capsules. I'd rather just put it into my hot drink in the morning and then just drink it up.