How to Make Your Own Collagen Naturally

We found it!  The MAGIC PILL - Collagen!

We’ve searched high and low for this magical pill, only to find that our body produces it naturally! 

Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body, making up the connective tissues in your bones, ligaments, and organs, including your skin. It’s what gives strength and structural integrity to your skin, keeping it firm, elastic, bouncy, supple, and younger-looking!

No wonder collagen supplements are always a hot topic, especially among us who are slowly being robbed of our youth by the unforgiving aging process.

We actually begin to age in our 30s, losing the precious collagen that gives us that youthful glow. But the signs of aging only become visible in our 40s— wrinkles, crow’s feet, the 11s between our brows, saggy jowls, and those chiseled cheekbones we love so much but are actually a sign of collagen loss.

Needless to say, we always seem to reach for collagen supplements that— spoiler alert—don’t even work! 

Hear us out on this:

Nutrient absorption happens in our small intestines, which have teeny tiny gaps that allow nutrients from food to go into the bloodstream and throughout the body.

Now, collagen protein has giant molecules that don't fit through the gaps.  So, our gut has to break the collagen down into its amino acids, which are small enough to be absorbed into your blood.

In other words, the blood delivers amino acids (not collagen) to your skin, and they don’t carry age-reversing benefits.

So instead of taking collagen from animal guts and carcasses disguised as pearl-white collagen powders, help your body improve its own collagen production.

Here’s how you can make your own collagen more naturally.

Amino Acids

Collagen is a protein, so it’s made of amino acids, specifically: lysine, proline, and glycine. The body requires all three to produce collagen. 

Although these three make collagen together, they each have their own incredible health benefits:

• Glycine— the primary amino acid in collagen— helps you sleep better and protects you from heart diseases and muscle loss.
• Proline helps repair skin damage, improve digestion, prevent joint pain, fight inflammation, and maintain cardiovascular health.
• Lysine helps you heal wounds, reduce anxiety, and calcium absorption for optimal bone health and growth.

Glycine and proline are produced by your body, while lysine comes from your food.

Some foods rich in lysine are beets,  green peas, spinach, avocados, nuts and seeds, mangoes, oats, and quinoa.

For your body to absorb the lysine from these foods, you also need to have enough iron, glutamic acid, and vitamins C and B.

Also, just because your body gives you glycine and proline doesn’t mean you can’t have more of them from dietary sources. Foods rich in glycine and proline are cabbage, asparagus, seaweeds, and sunflower seeds.

By doing so, vitamin C helps strengthen our body tissues, including our skin, and reverse the visible signs of aging. 

Aside from that, vitamin C also has antioxidant and regenerative properties. It has the power to eradicate free radicals that cause damage to our skin and rejuvenate our skin.

Consuming at least 75 mg of vitamin C from citrus fruits and cruciferous vegetables (such as broccoli and brussels sprouts) should be enough to enjoy its amazing anti-aging and rejuvenating benefits.

Zinc

Zinc helps produce collagen and protects it from damage. If you lack zinc, your collagen becomes vulnerable to free radicals and UV rays, which can reach beneath the top layer of the skin and destroy collagen.

Therefore, to protect the collagen you have left while your body makes more, consume at least 11 mg of zinc every day by eating nuts, seeds, whole grains, spinach, chickpeas, and other zinc-rich foods.

Silicon

Silicon helps create collagen by activating enzymes that form the collagen network. And since collagen makes up 30% to 40% of your bones, silicon is essential in keeping them strong, healthy, and protected against osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. 

Also, your skin is 70% collagen, making silicon highly important in restoring your skin’s firmness, elasticity, bounciness, and youthful glow! 

Silicon even helps keep your hair and nails healthy. So, it’s safe to say that having healthy levels of silicon can make you feel and look younger.

A study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that having low levels of silicon is linked to poor bone and connective tissue growth and the early appearance of signs of aging. 

The study also included postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who experienced improved bone density when taking silicon supplements.

There are slight traces of silicon in your body. But you can always have more of it by eating the right foods such as fruits (bananas, cherries, berries, apples, and oranges), vegetables (carrots, celery, and cucumber), nuts and seeds, and whole grains (rice and oats).

Aside from silicon, AgelessLX contains biotin. This B vitamin breaks down nutrients and turns them into usable energy for our cells so they can perform various functions such as keeping our skin smooth and hydrated and growing our hair and nails!

Not only that! AgelessLX also has HMB (beta hydroxy beta methylbutyrate), a naturally occurring chemical that promotes muscle growth and prevents muscle breakdown. Having more muscles means tighter skin, better metabolism, and more active life.

Thousands of women are bringing back youthful skin, voluminous hair, stronger and longer nails they can clip again, and toned arms and abs they haven’t seen in years— all thanks to AgelessLX!

You can be one of these amazing women, too. Join the mission to change the way women age today!

Support your body’s collagen production by avoiding habits that destroy collagen.