A vegan collagen for smoother-looking skin, stronger nails, healthier-looking hair and strong flexible joints

Ingredients in Terranova Vollagen Complex

Each 2 capsules gives:

1. Vollagen Amino Acid Complex: 1000mg
2. MAGNIFOOD Complex total: 450mg
3. Organic Rose Hips: 250mg
4. Organic Matcha Green Tea, ceremonial grade AAA: 100mg
5. Organic Aronia Berry, fresh freeze dried: 50mg
6. Organic Bilberry Fruit, fresh freeze dried: 50mg
7. Vegetarian capsule shell

This high-dose Vollagen formula with antioxidant-rich Magnifood complexes. No hyaluronic acid, no silica, no extras. 

Vollagen is the patented amino acid complex that gives all 18 amino acids found in the Collagen protein. It is made through fermentation of non-GMO corn. As collagen declines with age it is great to have a vegan option to top up levels.

How Vollagen Works

1. Supplying Collagen Amino Acids

This is not marine or bovine collagen. It is a vegan amino acid complex designed to give the body the main amino acids found in collagen.

Collagen has a very specific amino acid pattern. It is rich in glycine, proline and hydroxyproline. These are heavily used in skin, hair, nails, joints, tendons, ligaments, bones and blood vessels.

In simple terms, it gives the body collagen-type raw materials without using fish, bovine or animal collagen.

2. Helping the Body Build Its Own Collagen

The body does not just “use collagen” straight from a capsule. It has to make collagen inside cells.

Cells such as fibroblasts in the skin and chondrocytes in cartilage use amino acids to build new collagen chains.

Glycine is especially important because collagen needs glycine at every third position in its structure. Proline and hydroxyproline help give collagen its strong, stable shape.

So Vollagen works differently from hydrolysed collagen peptides. It does not supply animal peptides. Instead, it gives the body the key amino acids it needs for its own collagen-making process.

3. How Vollagen Works for Skin, Hair, Nails and Joints

1. Skin needs collagen for firmness, bounce and smoother-looking texture.
2. Hair and nails need amino acids to stay strong and less brittle.
3. Joints, tendons and ligaments need collagen-type building blocks because these tissues are protein-rich and structural.

This is why Vollagen is often chosen by people who want a collagen-style product, but need it to be vegan, vegetarian, fish-free or bovine-free.

How Matcha Works

Simple Explanation: matcha is in this formula to help protect collagen from oxidative damage. It is not the main collagen-building ingredient. Vollagen gives the amino acid building blocks, while matcha helps reduce the background damage that can age skin faster.

The more long winded explanation is:

1. Act as an Antioxidant

They act as antioxidants in two ways. 

1. They neutralise free radicals: Matcha contains catechins, especially EGCG, which work as antioxidants. They neutralise free radicals before they damage skin and joint cells.
2. They Reduce MMP activity: Over time, free radicals  can trigger enzymes called MMPs, especially MMP-1, which break down collagen in the skin and joints. EGCG helps reduce this oxidative stress and may help quieten collagen-breaking pathways, including MMP activity and inflammatory signalling such as NF-κB.

2. Make more Antioxidants

Matcha catechins also activate the Nrf2 pathway. This is one of the body’s own cell-protection systems. When Nrf2 is switched on, the body makes more antioxidant enzymes such as glutathione-related enzymes, superoxide dismutase and catalase.

How Rosehip Works

Simple Explanation: Rosehip is packed with GOPO. These helps calm joint irritation, while vitamin C (also in Rosehip) helps the body make stronger collagen for cartilage, bones and connective tissue.

Rosehip is better studied than many customers realise, especially for joints and stiffness. Its key actives are galactolipid GOPO and vitamin C.

GOPO helps calm inflammatory signalling around worn or stiff joints. It appears to reduce neutrophil chemotaxis, meaning fewer inflammatory white blood cells are drawn into the joint area. This helps lower some of the chemical signals that can irritate cartilage cells, called chondrocytes.

Vitamin C works differently. It helps the body build strong collagen by acting as a cofactor for prolyl hydroxylase and lysyl hydroxylase, enzymes needed to make stable collagen fibres.

Other Ingredients in Terranova Nutrition Vollagen Complex

1. Aronia is rich in anthocyanins and polyphenols, which work by neutralising free radicals and activating antioxidant pathways such as Nrf2 to help protect skin collagen from oxidative damage.
2. Bilberry is rich in anthocyanins, which help protect tiny blood vessels and collagen by reducing oxidative stress and calming inflammatory signalling such as NF-κB.