Dr. Andy Galpin

And it looks like there's something actually happening here.

Where this gets sticky is still the argument of organ-specific conversion.

So if you are consuming it, how do we actually know that you're consuming collagen and that's getting into collagen?

Well, the argument would be if it's all being broken down into its individual constituents and it doesn't matter.

And then there's some talk of like, well, there's these special kind of conditional ones where it gets crossed through as these combination of amino acids.

So therefore, it's going to be more targeting collagen.

We'll wait and see if that holds true or not.

I'm not entirely convinced of that either.

But that said, when you go to the end of the story, it does seem to be doing stuff for connective tissue and ligaments.

And I would say... I think it's just an area where we probably don't have the answers yet.

Like we don't have all the answers.

It may be something else.

Maybe it's that, maybe it's not that, but something's happening here.

And so now we will very often recommend it prophylactically, even if you're not injured.

Certainly if you have any soft tissue injury history, you're compelled to that.

30 to 60 minutes pre-exercise seems to be the time.

So timing dosage does seem to matter with collagen.

I mentioned earlier, co-ingested with like 50 milligrams of vitamin C seems to be the thing.

This is all Keith Barr's work, like many other people, but he's the one who's pushed this for many, many years now.

scientifically.