Sure, collagen will keep you young and beautiful, but did you know… your digestive system lining needs healthy protein to keep your gut on track? 🚽✨ Keep your plumbing strong and healthy! Pursue youthful aging from the inside out with a good COLLAGEN supplement! 💪🌟… pic.twitter.com/zSSXZzHQ3s
— drannatoker (@dr_annatoker) June 18, 2024
Did you know that what's happening on your skin is also happening within your intestinal tract?
Hi, I'm Dr Anna Toker, your friendly neighborhood colorectal surgeon reminding you that an epithelial surface, whether it's on your skin and people can see it, or in the lining of your digestive system which without special equipment you can't see, these cells are turning over rapidly. They need lots of protein structure to stay healthy. Now you might choose to take collagen for your skin, your hair, and your nails, but I'm here to tell you take collagen to support your intestinal tract. The lining of your intestines needs to have support from the underlying protein matrix that's made out of collagen. Just choose a good one, one that's organic if you can with vitamin C and hyaluronic acid. If you are a plant-based protein, well there's no collagen in the vegetable world, so you'll have to take a complete protein supplement. If you are doing vegetarian collagen what that really means is you're taking the amino acid building blocks for collagen, and that's awesome. Just make sure you're also taking hyaluronic acid, vitamin C that will help support your GI tract for better intestinal health. And when there's better intestinal health, your overall health is better.
