Do collagen, omega-3 and whey supplements boost bone health?

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-02-02 05:53:46 | Updated at 2025-02-02 08:47:53 3 hours ago

Do collagen, omega-3 and whey supplements boost bone health?
Medical Xpress / UC Davis / Med Sci Sports Exercise ^ | Jan. 3, 2025 | Thorben Aussieker et al.

Posted on 02/01/2025 9:35:47 PM PST by ConservativeMind

Collagen is the most abundant protein in our body. All our musculoskeletal tissues are built on a foundation of collagen. Collagen makes up our tendons, ligaments and bones. For this musculoskeletal system to work well, we need to have a good collagen turnover that replaces older collagen with new ones.

Collagen is a meat-based protein. Animal tissues are the only natural source of collagen.

Our studies have shown that when taking a collagen supplement, there is an increase in a circulating marker (known as procollagen N-Terminal peptide) of collagen synthesis. So, we know that hydrolyzed collagen supplements can be good. This is especially true in older individuals.

More collagen largely means more protein with specific amino acids needed to make collagen in our bodies. In many cases, there seems to be a nice upside.

To build collagen, we need a lot of glycine and proline amino acids. If there isn't enough glycine or proline, then we can't make as much collagen as we want.

But, since whey has all the amino acids and is a complete protein, unlike collagen, it is a high quality protein. Whey has a lot of leucine, a key amino acid for protein synthesis, and proline. However, it is not as rich in glycine, a building block of collagen.

We found that when people are fed milk protein like whey, their glycine levels in blood would go down. They wondered if that happened because the body was using the glycine to make more collagen.

Our study showed that we can make more connective tissue in our muscles by taking a whey protein and collagen blend.

This study was the first time we have demonstrated, using a direct measure of collagen synthesis, that we can nutritionally change how much collagen we make in our muscles.

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The best ratio to create more muscle and muscle connective tissue is five parts whey protein to one part (5:1) collagen, according to the study.

Omega-3 fats only helped if the tissue had inflammation, already.

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2 posted on 02/01/2025 9:36:32 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)

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Do note that adding whey to collagen, while you are expecting to have the collagen do something else, may not be as helpful.

So if you take Type II collagen for joints and add whey to it, it might not do as good of a job for your joints, as now you have a complete protein that can be used elsewhere.

3 posted on 02/01/2025 9:38:11 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)

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