Skin Health - Dr. Molly Maloof - Healthspan
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The Importance of Collagen
The most common question that I get asked when I speak to consumers all the time is what about collagen. There's three amino acids that make up collagen, two of which are essential by scene and proline. The third one is hydroxyproline, which the liver can make if you have enough vitamin C and enough iron. If you eat meat, you are getting essentially all of those amino acids. And then the question becomes for the vegan, for the vegetarian who's not eating a lot of that. Is it helpful to eat some collagen? "I've kind of moved a little bit off the don't waste your money with collagen"
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