Wednesday, 30 April 2014 11:11

Build Collagen Naturally & Achieve Beautiful Skin

As you age, collagen slowly breaks down and your skin’s ability to replace the lost collagen diminishes.

Collagen is a protein that serves as a key structural component of the connective tissue in your skin, bones and ligaments.

This protein is responsible for keeping your nails, teeth, hair and skin strong. The outer layer of your skin, the dermis, contains large amounts of collagen.

As you age, collagen slowly breaks down and your skin’s ability to replace the lost collagen diminishes, leading to wrinkles.

Have you heard of active collagen?

Active collagen contains a marine ingredient composed of collagen and elastin polypeptides and has the same ratio of collagen that is naturally found in skin. Active collagen can increase moisture levels and fight free radical damage that causes aging in your skin.

There is also another collagen supplement, Collagen Plus, that rebuilds the protein found in your skin.

How do you know which collagen products to use?

There are so many options of collagen supplements that all promise the same thing. However, you want to be sure that there is strong research backing up the supplement.

Lorna Vanderhaeghe, MS, joins Andrea Donsky, RHN, and Lisa Davis, MPH, to discuss why collagen is so important, what age you should be taking the supplements and which supplements to use to help prevent aging in your skin.

Additional Info

  • Segment Number: 2
  • Audio File: naturally_savvy/1418ns3b.mp3
  • Featured Speaker: Lorna Vanderhaeghe, MS
  • Book Title: A Smart Woman’s Guide to Hormones and A Smart Woman’s Guide to Weight Loss
  • Guest Twitter Account: @asklorna
  • Guest Bio: Lorna Vanderhaeghe , MS, is a women's natural health expert and has been researching nutritional medicine for over 30 years.

    With degrees in nutrition and biochemistry, she is the author of eleven books including A Smart Woman's Guide to Hor-mones and A Smart Woman's Guide to Weight Loss.

    She is also an internationally known lecturer who educates people on how to combine the best of mainstream medicine with scientifically backed nu-trients and diet changes to achieve optimal wellness.

    She has a free monthly newsletter and her website – www.hormonehelp.com - has over 4,000 pages of helpful nutrition information along with FREE books.
  • Length (mins): 10
  • Waiver Received: No
  • Host: Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH