How To Boost Collagen In Your Skin

What is collagen?

Your body makes collagen, which accounts for around 30% of all the proteins in your body and is the protein that is most prevalent there. Proline, hydroxyproline, and glycine are the three amino acids that make up collagen; ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is necessary for the three amino acids to come together to form the particular collagen structure. Each and every connective tissue in your body benefits from collagen's strength and stability. As well as your intestinal lining, it can be found in your bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, and hair. It is located in the dermis, the middle layer of your skin, and gives your skin its structure, thickness, and suppleness. Additionally, it plays a crucial role in replacing dead skin cells with freshly developing skin cells, which is why it gives you healthy-looking skin away from sagging and shrinkage.

Types of collagen:

 Collagen comes in a variety of forms, however the following are the most prevalent:

- Type 1 collagen, which accounts for nearly 90% of total collagen in your body and supports your hair, nails, bones, tendons, and ligaments in addition to providing structure to your skin.

- Type 2, which supports the cartilage and joints in your body.

- Type 3 is mostly employed for gut healing and blood vessel and internal organ contractions because it is highly present in your intestine, muscles, and blood vessels.

- Type 4 manifests in the layers of your skin.

- Type 5 shows up in the placenta, the cornea of your eyes, and the dermal and epidermal junctions.

What happens to your collagen by age ??

Your collagen is produced in less quantity and lower quality each year as you age. When you're older, collagen breaks down more quickly. Additionally, collagen production starts to diminish significantly.

What are the signs of your collagen decline?

1. Whenever your skin starts to wrinkle more.

2. Your checks lose their full, plump appearance and become more flat.

3. the emergence of a hollow region behind the eye.

4. The presence of fine lines and wrinkles on your face, particularly those around your eyes.

5. saggy skin.

6. Loss of hair.

7. Muscle and joint pain

8. Limited movement due to joint and ligament stiffness.

9. issues involving your teeth.

10. Weakened blood vessels 

Bad habits can destroy your collagen:

1. Smoking destroys your collagen, decreases its production and prevents transporting of nutrients and oxygen to the skin cells by making vasoconstriction to the blood vessels near to your skin surface impairing skin cells nutrition. thus, causes wrinkles and fine lines appearance.

2.Ultraviolet rays of sun lights can break down your collagen very easily. so, avoid direct exposure to these rays especially in summer days and try to put a sunblock cream on your face if you going outside.

3. Consuming refined carbohydrates & sugars makes your collagen easily damaged because too much sugars combines with your proteins and form a glycated end products, the later can destruct the nearby proteins and makes your collagen to be very weak, dry and easily broken.

4. Any problems in your sleeping pattern and staying up late can cause your collagen to be easily broken.

How can you boost your skin collagen?

1. Eating foods of a high collagen content, And this does not mean that your body can absorb the consumed collagen in food in its whole form, but your body breaks down the collagen in food like any other protein enters your gut results in freeamino acids, foods that contains amino acids proline, glycin and vitamin C and copper indirectly increase your collagen production includes the following:

 

- Meat, eggs, fish, mushrooms, cabbages and peanuts  are containing the amino acid proline.

- Red meat, chicken, turkey and peanuts are containing the amino acid glycine.

-lemon, orange, strawberry, kiwi, colored peppers and broccoli are considered a potent antioxidants and containing a high level of vitamin C.

- Liver, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, green leaves and dark chocolate are containing a high level of copper that promote collagen production.

Also, preparing the bone broth is reported to be very health soup rich in proteins like collagen, It is preparedby boiling the animal bones in water and adding few drops of vinegar in order to help dissolve collagen and minerals from bones in the broth, the boiling process is left on a quiet fire for a long time after  about 9-24 hours, the prepared soup is often like a jelly in its consistency and due to the high gelatin content produced as a result of turning of collagen to gelatin after exposing of collagen to a high temperature.

2. Drinking lemon water at the morning every day not only hydrates your skin , prevents formation of kidney stones, remove your body toxins , boost your immunity and help in weight loss, but it also maintains your skin elasticity, collagen formation, repairs the damaged skin, reduces fine lines and wrinkles, make your skin more firmer and shiny. 

3. Sleeping pattern should be as early as possible in order to give 

your body cells their chance to repair themselves, vital rest of your body allows it to counteracts the bad effect of free radicals, It was found that the best time for sleeping in order to allow your body make its biological functions is between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. since your skin cells multiplies well and damaged cells are repaired, thus, if you still awake after 10 p.m. all your body functions including its ability to expel the bad free radicals will be interrupted also, collagen production will be stopped result in sagging, pale and brittle skin.

4. Regular exercise not only improves your blood circulations of all 

your body organs, but it also allows nutrients  and oxygen to reach nearby cells, it also allows fibroblast cells to promote collagen production. It is also seemed to decrease stress and anxiety disorders which causes collagen destruction, reduce hyalouronic acid production, counteracts skin aging and  wrinkles.

5. Using of anti aging skin care routine is usually necessary for keeping your skin to be always hydrated, prevents collagen fibers in your skin from being broken down as a results of bad environmental factors, sunburn and skin dryness. Although all of these skin care products including cleansers, moisturizers, retinol, vitamin C and hyaluronic acid serums are very important in slowing down the signs of of your skin aging, keep your collagen fibers and improving your skin appearance, they will not completely prevent your skin aging, they only help slowing down fine lines and wrinkles’s  appearance.

6. Ask your skin care doctor to apply the microneedling procedure to your skin if you have multiple skin problems as enlarged pores,

 scars, wrinkles and stretchmarks.This procedure is applied by inserting a very thin needles into the upper surface layer of your skin to make a very tiny holes on the damaged area of your skin, these tiny holes can stimulate your skin to produce more collagen and elastin proteins which help accelerate the process of your skin healing in a right manner keeps your skin more firmer and healthier, also provides your skin a soft youth look.