02/17/2022
🍊🍒5 Facts About COLLAGEN You May Not Know! 🍒🍊
1️⃣Collagen Can Promote Healing- Wound dressings made of collagen can improve healing because the protein spurs tissue growth. By attracting new skin cells, a collagen dressing can even aid in healing a chronic wound.
2️⃣ Collagen Can Be Restored with a diet packed with protein, vitamin C and vitamin A as well as supplementation!
3️⃣There Is More Than One Type of Collagen found in the body. About 90% of the collagen in your body is type I, which consists of densely packed fibers that are extremely flexible, extremly strong and Gram for gram, has more strength than steel.
4️⃣Collagen Makes Up 75% of Skin’s Dry Weight and is most prevalent in the dermis(below the top layer of skin).
5️⃣Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body and 30% of proteins in the body are some form of collagen.