collagen

renae941
renae941 Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I've seen a lot of advertising for collagen supplements and/or items to add to your drinks. What is the purpose of adding this to your diet?

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  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    renae941 wrote: »
    I've seen a lot of advertising for collagen supplements and/or items to add to your drinks. What is the purpose of adding this to your diet?

    Nothing useful in terms of weight loss.
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,033 Member
    renae941 wrote: »
    I've seen a lot of advertising for collagen supplements and/or items to add to your drinks. What is the purpose of adding this to your diet?

    It puts money in the pockets of the companies that make it...
  • bwhitty67
    bwhitty67 Posts: 162 Member
    I add it to my coffee... not for weight loss but... well I’m aging 😬. My skin feels different. I set out to try it for 60 days to see if I could tell a difference and I have. So 1 scoop a day
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    Here is an excellent and balanced article about it: https://sciencealert.com/science-behind-collagen-supplement-market-increase

    The bottom line: most omnivores get enough collagen (you need meat for the amino acid units and plants for the building blocks that allow the body to build collagen from those amino acids). Most people will not benefit from eating collagen supplements but there have been a couple of positive studies which show the need for more study. There is no proof that eating collagen supplements will help.
  • TrishSeren
    TrishSeren Posts: 587 Member
    I take a gelatin/collagen supplement for tendon issues, works quite well for that. Gone from not being able to walk up hills without excruciating pain to being able to walk up hills fine :)

    Also randomly makes my hair grow like crazy.
  • RealWorldStrengthLLC
    RealWorldStrengthLLC Posts: 552 Member
    I take lysine (supports college production) in an effort to minimize the loose skin I will undoubtedly have losing 80lbs.

    It's likely a bunch of BS, but I dontvreally care because 100 pills costs like 7 bucks.
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