The Truth You Need To Know About 30 Day Collagen Supplement Challenges
There's a lot of people out there promoting 30-day collagen supplement challenges to help with joint pain and in a previous discussion we talked about the collagen rebuilding process and what was involved to help joint pain. We want to know, is it possible to see results in 30 days or is it just marketing hype?
Dr. Kramer explains that when a person experiences collagen loss due to osteoporosis or some other situation, that means that the cartilage has been damaged to such an extent that you're hitting the nerves that are embedded in the cartilage. And then when you start having motion, those nerves send a signal which is pain, which is telling you that there's something amiss, there's something not working quite right in your cartilage.
The Main Cause of Cartilage Loss
Number one is age. As you get older, sometimes the mechanism for rebuilding the cartilage is slower than the mechanism that is destroying naturally and if the damage is greater than the ability to repair the damage, your joint cartilage gets thinner and exposes your nerves and it becomes painful. That's a signal that your cartilage. You either have to slow down the use there and have the cartilage get caught up or you have to tell the cartilage to speed up and keep growing because you have more activity.
Why is 30 days not enough time for this to do the job right?
There are 3 main reasons why 30 days is not enough to really rebuild cartilage in a joint.
The first step is to send a signal to the joint to start rebuilding the collagen. Collagen molecules have the ability to trigger the process to start rebuilding and replacing cartilage in a joint. The damage has not only thinned the amount of cartilage but the friction of bone on bone has created a pitted surface. Step one is to fill in the pits so that the surface is smooth which may take a minimum of 30 days. Next you need to create a thick pad of collagen on your bone between 5-6 cm thick. That is your shock absorber, so you have to have a collagen sheath on both sides to absorb shock in the joint. In the third month, it has to start lubricating the pads and the joint again. So, you have two smooth surfaces with a lubricant that will take 90 days, minimum. It could take as much as 120, but you will get there.
What should a consumer look for or be aware of in selecting an effective collagen supplement?
Understand that type 1 and 3 type collagen supplements are usually made from fish or fish by products which are not a effective as type 2 collagens. We make type 2 bovine collagen supplements because it offers the best results. Any collagen that is water soluble “mix in in a glass of water” has significantly reduced the ability to trigger the molecule to trigger the rebuilding process and thus will take much longer or not at all.
How is your Bovine type 2 Collagen Different.
Some companies take a cow hide from Brazil, stick it in acid and make it soluble and dry it. You can call it collagen, but it's been extremely reduced in effectiveness, it’s damaged collagen that you're taking in.
Collagen type two comes from another part of the animal. We use collagen from the trachea of cattle because it is strong and is a fibrous molecule, and it's flexible. It also has the ability to move back and forth, being very flexible. And that's what you want to find when you have, like, a joint. Most joints are flexible, and you'd like to see the ability that movement in the joint doesn't cause pain.
Summary
There are many more areas we can discuss but the fact is that all the medical evidence and information is available on our website. We should also mention that are supplements are made in the United States and use only bovine collagen from slaughterhouses in the US. Our product is regulated by several agencies including the FDA to strict standards for quality. We also maintain extremely high traceability standards to know where all of our ingredients come from.
Many Thanks to Dr. Allen Kramer, President of SB-Edge Collagen Supplements