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The protein scaffolding that holds you together, literally, until gravity negotiates otherwise.
means A fibrous structural protein, abundant in skin, bone, tendon, and cartilage, that gives tissue its strength and shape.
from From French collagène, built from Greek kolla, 'glue,' plus -gen, 'producer of.' The name is almost clinically literal: boil animal skin, bone, and connective tissue long enough and the collagen breaks down into gelatin — which is, in fact, how glue was traditionally made. So 'collagen' means, quite plainly, 'the glue-maker.'
- body share
- makes up roughly a third of all your protein
- supplement truth
- stomach breaks it into amino acids before absorption
- peak decline
- production drops about one percent yearly after twenty
- word origin
- from Greek kolla, meaning glue