HOTP #22: Jake Tuura - Tendon Masterclass: Deciphering tendon research to make informed decisions
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The Role of Collagen in Tendon Health
The more that you pull an elastic band the more it's gonna. The collagen is pretty well maintained throughout your life like what is the half life 200 years or something of collagen. So when you're stressing your tendon you're actually protecting your collagen because your inter-particular matrix is allowing the sliding and gliding. I don't know if it would be like metabolic health because diabetes can affect it definitely affects the collagen but it affects the gel and everything so I'm like maybe there's something I'll stumble across maybe that's the point where we can get to in research where you can start taking people who are 40 years old who can have a tendon performance of someone who's 20
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