Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body.
You can find it in your:
– Bones
– Muscles
– Tendons
– Ligaments
– Organs
– Blood vessels
– Intestines
– Tissues and skin.
The body starts to make less collagen as you age starting in your mid 20s. Poor diet can lower your levels too. When the body doesn’t make as much collagen,
It can lead to things like:
– Wrinkles
– Weak Muscles
– Tight ligaments and tendons
– Joint pain.
– Gut issues.
Marine or fish, collagen comes from the skin of fish. It can help you bring your levels up. You may already be taking supplements or use cosmetics with collagen in them.
In most of these products, the collagen comes from pig and cow skins.
Benefits
Like other source of collagen, Marine collagen may help delay some signs of ageing, like wrinkles, joint issues and weakness. Besides the anti-aging benefits, fish collagen also provide an alternative to people who have issues about using other forms of collagen.
Those issues includes:
1) Religious concerns: because of their faith some people aren’t able to use collagen made from pigs and cows.
2) Worry about diseases: some people worry that the protein used in collagen products could link to mad cow disease.
Uses.
You can use fish collagen as a supplements. It comes in powder, pills or liquid forms. People also use creams made with it. Cream with fish collagen are becoming popular, doctors believe that other treatments like retinol, tretinoin and vitamin C might provide more benefits.these creams can help your body make collagen.
They can also undo the inflammation that can damage it.
Written by: Blessing Atabo
