High Strength hydrolysed collagen in a plain powder you can mix into coffee, smoothies or yoghurt.

Ingredients in Swedish Nutra Collagen Powder

• Bovine collagen, Type I & III
• Hydrolysed collagen 10,000mg

It absorbs easily and mixes into water or juice.

Benefits of Swedish Nutra Collagen

This is one of the main proteins in skin, hair, nails, joints, bones, tendons, ligaments, blood vessels and connective tissue.

Bovine collagen is a good all-round collagen because it naturally contains Type I and Type III collagen.

1. It helps skin look fresher, smoother and firmer, especially when taken every day.
2. It boosts skin hydration over time, helping skin look less dry, less tired and more plump.
3. It reduces the look of fine lines, especially when lines are come with dryness or tired looking skin.
4. It gives hair key amino acids, helping it feel stronger, healthier, shinier and less prone to snapping.
5. It helps nails grow stronger and longer. They break less.
6. It is useful when joints feel creaky, stiff or worn from age, exercise or everyday use. It is needed for cartilage, tendons and ligaments.
7. It is also great for strong bones, because it makes up about 30% of your bones. Think Calcium and minerals to protect against bone thinning and collagen and protein to avoid brittle bones.

Collagen levels naturally fall with age, sun damage, smoking, alcohol, stress, high sugar, poor sleep and low protein intake can speed this up.

For best results, collagen needs to be taken daily. It is a long-term supplement, not a quick fix.

How Hydrolysed Bovine Collagen Works

1. Getting Collagen Absorbed

2. Signals the Body to Make Collagen

• fibroblasts in the skin
• chondrocytes in cartilage

3. How Collagen Improves your Gut Lining

Collagen is used in stomach and gut formulas because it gives the body three amino acids heavily used in lining tissue: glycine, proline and hydroxyproline.

• Glycine helps make the protective mucus layer that coats the gut wall. That mucus layer is one of the things that stops the lining feeling raw and irritated.
• Proline is used to make new collagen fibres. These fibres sit underneath the gut lining and help hold the tissue together.
• Hydroxyproline helps collagen keep its tight, stable shape. Without enough hydroxyproline, collagen fibres are weaker and less well formed.

This is why collagen is not really a “digestion” ingredient like an enzyme. It does not break food down. It is more about feeding the structure of the gut wall.

Glutamine does a different job. It is a main fuel source for enterocytes, the cells that line the gut. So glutamine feeds the surface cells, while collagen gives amino acids for the tissue structure underneath.

Types of Collagen

• Type I collagen is found in skin, bones, tendons, ligaments and connective tissue.
• Type III collagen is found alongside Type I collagen in skin, joints, muscles and blood vessels, and is important for flexible connective tissue.

Collagen Declines With Age

• From the mid-twenties, the body produces roughly 1 to 1.5 per cent less of this structural protein annually.
• By 40, production has dropped 20 to 30 per cent.
• After menopause, the decline accelerates sharply, with women losing up to 30 per cent of skin-based protein in just five years.