I would like to discuss the number one nutrient in boosting your collagen now it's not vitamin C even though vitamin C definitely helps collagen but it's something else now what is collagen collagen is that protein that connects everything together out of all the protein your body about 35% of it is collagen so it's a connective tissue it makes up your cartilage your muscles your tendons your ligaments your eyes the fascia the stuff that holds all your muscles together it's below your skin right on top of your muscles it makes up your bone even your teeth
and it's all around your skin and I think a lot of people are trying to boost their collagen by consuming collagen when in fact they're missing something else and this talk is inspired by this book that I've been reading soil grass and cancer the link between human and animal health and the mineral balance in the soil it's a fascinating book on nutrition talking about the Rel ship between the animals that we eat and the animals that eat the grass that comes from certain soils so if there's some mineral missing in the soil it's going to
be missing in the plant which the animals eat and then we eat the animals so we're going to be deficient as well and the number one nutrient that boosts collagen is copper so copper has a direct effect on making collagen preventing the loss of collagen making elastin which is a U A protein that uh supports the structural Integrity of collagen and so this Trace mineral needed in a very small amount is necessary um in the enzymes that allow proteins to form and so the copper enzymes are all about structural Integrity so if you are deficient
in Copper there are several things that can happen with your body tissue number one it can lead to something called swayback or lordosis now this happens in animals as well like but it also happens in humans where you have this excess lower back curve and that occurs because you don't have the structural stability to hold everything together so things are becoming a little bit too loose now it can also show up in your skin as loose skin and as a side note copper has a lot of additional benefits including being able to tolerate the sun
longer now what about hernas well there's some great research I'll put the link down below that shows that relationship between people having hernas with a significant deficiency in Copper and that goes for all different types of hernas whether they're inguinal or Hiatal because you need the structural Integrity that copper gives to hold everything together real nicely copper supports your joints so if your joints are weak or they're falling apart chances are there could be a copper deficiency and also with muscles if your muscles are weak you may be deficient in Copper athletes that have sufficient
copper have more endurance they're more hydrated they can go longer without drinking water so just think about exercised in the involvement of collagen and connective tissue I mean you're talking about joints muscles everything your lower back discs need copper to make them very very strong your blood vessels need copper to prevent things like varicose veins so those are all the things that connect copper to collagen but let's talk about some other benefits of copper if you have an iron deficiency anemia situation and you don't have enough copper and you take iron you're not going to
be able to fix your anemia copper is really necessary with your um your immune system your white blood cells as well as the size and shape of your red blood cells if you're deficient in Copper you can have a disorder where you're sweating excessively and copper is also involved with melanin which gives you that pigment so if you're divici in Copper you can gray prematurely copper also uh supports the brain and it can help you keep your balance in the dark or when your eyes are closed so if you close your eyes and you feel
dizzy or disoriented that could be a copper deficiency so let's say for example you're going to take a shower and you take off your shirt that momentary lack of light can affect your equilibrium and your balance having enough copper can also keep your uric acid in check copper is necessary to detoxify fluoride and by the way the more fluoride you have in your body the less copper you're going to have and copper has been known to help warm up feet and that could be because it helps you transport iron which is necessary in hemoglobin all
right so now what are the foods that are high in Copper liver kidney oysters shellfish shitake mushrooms and sesame seeds now what are the common causes of a copper deficiency well probably the biggest cause is that we just don't have enough copper in our soils which then translate to a copper deficiency in the foods that we eat you're also going to see a copper deficiency after gastric bass surgery you can also get a deficiency if you take too much ascorbic acid okay which is part of the vitamin C complex normally uh copper is supposed to
be part of the vitamin C complex as an enzyme but if you're taking just a lot of ascorbic acid out of the normal complex that can create a deficiency of copper too now another common cause of a copper deficiency is by someone taking too much zinc and so recently A lot of people have been on the bandwagon to take a lot of zinc and they probably been taking zinc out of the the complex of a lot of trace minerals including copper and taking too much zinc over a period of time can throw off your copper
ratios having you be deficient in Copper so too much zinc can lower copper too much copper can lower zinc both zinc and copper work together and this is why I always recommend that you get your trace minerals in a complex too much sugar especially fructose can create a copper deficiency alcohol can create a deficiency as well as consuming too much fiber now I'm not talking about the fiber from your Foods um that come with these trace minerals I'm talking about all these new functional fibers that people are adding in the so-called ketofriendly bars or different
foods now since we're on the topic of collagen and probably a lot of people are interested in anti-aging I think the next video for you to watch would be this one right here check it out
