Maximise Your Absorption: Collagen’s Relationship With Your Routine
Unlocking the full potential of our tripeptide collagen isn’t hard, but it is worth your consideration. Why? With? When? We’re here to answer all the key questions, so our pure and potent supplement can be doing the most for you. Here’s your refined guide to enhancing absorption.
The Ultimate Pairing
Like any good cheese and wine, most things in our diet simply go better together. This remains true for your collagen supplement, with micronutrients only adding to the benefits. As we can learn from the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2018, Vitamin C is essential for our bodies’ natural collagen production, as a co-factor in biosynthesis, helping to stabilise the collagen’s triple helix by aiding hydroxylation processes. As well as this, Vitamin C also acts as a powerful antioxidant and supports amino acid production. It’s worth noting that our pure tripeptide collagen itself does not need additional assistance, due to its proprietary 3 amino acid structure and 100% absorption rate. While our supplement starts working immediately and all on its own, here at The Fountain Of Youth Lifestyle we’re all about overall health and wellbeing, and would be remiss not to mention ways to further care for your body. To take full advantage of Vitamin C's benefits, we can prioritise foods like berries, citrus fruits, and leafy greens. Zinc is important for the production and repair of our existing collagen levels, while copper can assist in the formation of elastin. For these nutrients, it’s great to focus on adding some nuts, legumes, whole grains, and shellfish to the rotation as well.
Mindful Health
There are a few areas of our routine that we can take for granted, or deprioritise in busier times. Two vital focus points to best look after your body are hydration and sleep. Consider hydration as not only a facilitation for digestion, but also a nutrient transport system, whereby the goodness can better flow to where it needs to be. In terms of sleep, while we rest, our bodies tend to do anything but. They engage in processes of growth and restoration, paramount to our overall health and healing. HealthDirect, 2022, reminds us that a nightly rest of 7-9 hours is key for an adult’s optimal health levels; from the cognitive, to cardiovascular, to collagen levels.
How To Time It
Whether you’re interested in adding collagen supplementation to your morning or evening routine, allowing your body to get used to the consistency can only amplify the benefits. Many nutrition experts recommend collagen first-thing, particularly on an empty stomach, when digestive enzymes are most active and the body isn’t yet distracted with other proteins. Alternatively, taking collagen before bed can also complement the body’s nocturnal repair cycles. Based on clinical studies, backed by the European Journal of Nutrition, 2024, the optimal window for collagen sleep support is supplementation within the last hour of the day. The results of this particular study showed enhanced cognitive performance and fewer sleep disturbances in as little as seven days when taken 60 minutes before bed. All this to say, there’s no wrong time to take your collagen, rather options to best suit your lifestyle.
When science meets self-care, the results truly speak for themselves. And with the right support, every dose is a step further into your transformation. So, have you had your collagen today?
