Have anyone heard anything about this? Sounds too good to me true.
Studies quoted in the own documents are v limited and vague.
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Their “ingredients” list would not pass FDA requirements to be legally sold in the US.
“Peptide E Collagen” - what is that? This is their secret ingredient from the deeps of the sea…
One thing collagen cannot do is restore elastin - elastin is way more important than collagen. Not to say that collagen and hyaluronic acid don’t provide a benefit but they don’t help much with elastin.
The main five types of collagen and what they do are:
- Type I. This type makes up 90% of your body’s collagen. Type I is densely packed and used to provide structure to your skin, bones, tendons and ligaments.
- Type II. This type is found in elastic cartilage, which provides joint support.
- Type III. This type is found in muscles, arteries and organs.
- Type IV. This type is found in the layers of your skin.
- Type V. This type is found in the cornea of your eyes, some layers of skin, hair and tissue of the placenta.
ELASTIN
The most severe changes in elastic fiber morphology, arrangement, and content occur in photodamaged skin.13 There are many interventions to improve the levels of collagen and hyaluronic acid in the skin, but no established treatments that increase production of elastin. This is because elastogenesis is a complex process that involves the crosslinking of tropoelastin monomers and microfibrillar proteins to produce elastic fibers. This process is much more difficult to stimulate and regulate than collagenesis because of the multiple steps involved in the assembly process. Procedures such as injections of collagen and hyaluronic acid to rejuvenate skin have been developed, but there are currently no approved devices to introduce functional elastin into the skin.
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Elastin is key. IMO: It is the only thing that is going to improve the major problem of skin sagging and deep wrinkles as we age.
I am finding it relatively easy to eliminate fine to medium skin wrinkles using collagen, tretinoin, etc. At this time, nothing short of cosmetic surgery is going to do anything about age-related skin sagging.
I am very disappointed that more effort and research isn’t being put into the elastin problem.
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Agreed, and it’s not just a skin problem.
If the elastin problem isn’t solved there is no regeneration and no possibility of “longevity”.
Elastin confers rubber-like elasticity to those connective tissues undergoing repetitive distensions, such as ligaments, tendons, blood vessels, skin, and even distensible organs like lungs, intestinal wall, artery walls, etc.
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