Restoring Collagen

• Our skin is prone to damage over time, whether this damage results from the sun or from aging. This damage causes skin to lose its elasticity and strength, thus causing sagging and wrinkles. Collagen cannot restore itself easily, and the collagen that is left is unhealthy and damaged. However, collagen treatments help rejuvenate skin, causing new collagen to develop. Skin becomes more youthful, smoother and healthier once the collagen is restored.
  
  

Vital Protein

• Collagen makes up about 80 percent of your skin and about one-quarter of the protein in your body. According to the Protein Data Bank, a biological educational resource supported by the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, "collagen provides structure to our bodies, protecting and supporting the softer tissues and connecting them with the skeleton." Collagen provides strength and structure; therefore, it is a necessary protein for the body. Collagen is beneficial for the body by providing strength, and it is also beneficial for the skin by retaining its moisture.
  
  

Benefits

• Collagen is good for the skin because it smooths it by making wrinkles less visible and it helps moisturize skin so that it becomes softer and healthier. Collagen helps structure hair, joints, nails and skin. Collagen helps stimulate hair growth and makes both hair and nails stronger. It gives skin a new life, adding elasticity and a healthy glow. It also restores joints, ligaments, bones and tendons by giving them more elasticity, making it easier for you to move without pain or soreness. Collagen is a beneficial protein which restores what the skin has lost, making it firmer, more elastic and healed of any scars.
  
  

Effects

• Besides smoothing skin and making it healthier, collagen also improves the structure inside and outside of your body. It reduces any joint pain you may have and keeps you hydrated. As described by Wellbeing-Information, a non-medical life coaching website, collagen is "the glue that holds us together" and is a vital protein which your body and skin need. You can take collagen as an injection, as a diet supplement in the form of a pill or use it externally in the form of a cream or skin treatment.