The #1 Collagen Tip for Amazing Hair, Nails, & Skin
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 24 March 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we’ll discuss a very important amino acid: glycine. Collagen is a main component of connective tissues, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage. About ⅓ of collagen is made by glycine.
Your body can make glycine, but unfortunately, it doesn’t make very much. If you're not getting it from the diet, you could be deficient. Unless you’re eating the skin and cartilage from meat, you’re probably not getting enough glycine.
Glycine is needed to make the most important antioxidant for all of your cells, glutathione. Without enough glycine to make glutathione, you can’t detoxify your body. This can cause a buildup of toxicity, leading to inflammation.
Glycine is a potent anti-inflammatory agent and is an essential building block for many enzymes and proteins.
Here are some of the many important functions of glycine:
• Makes heme in your blood
• Important for gum health
• Essential for DNA
• Building block for catalase
• Supports sleep
• Supports the liver
• Can help fix a leaky gut
• Detoxifies uric acid
• Supports blood sugar
• Helps with weight loss
• Reduces visceral fat
Glycine can also turn into glucose to be used as fuel. Certain parts of the body, especially the brain, need a certain amount of glucose. If you’re not consuming glucose, your body can make it. Glycine is a precursor for glucose, but don’t worry about it bumping you out of ketosis. Glycine stimulates the hormone glucagon, which opposes insulin.
If you’re not eating animals nose-to-tail, if you’re under stress, taking medication, drinking alcohol, or exposed to toxins, you can become deficient in glycine.
You can increase your glycine intake by consuming gelatin! Try making your own gelatin using Knox Blox and using a natural sweetener like stevia. You can also take a glycine supplement. The average person needs about 4 to 10 grams of glycine per day.
Bone broth and pork rinds can increase your glycine intake, but you need to consume a lot to get enough glycine.
As we age, we need more glycine. Increasing glycine intake can potentially help people with osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, hair thinning, insomnia, gout, and kidney stones.
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| 0:00.0 | Now I have a very simple inexpensive tip for you that I think can not only help you with your hair, your nails, and having useful skin, but a lot more. |
| 0:10.7 | In fact, you may find that this natural remedy solves many of the problems that you |
| 0:16.1 | have right now. And this all wraps around this one topic of collagen. What is collagen? |
| 0:21.2 | It's your connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, cartilage. |
| 0:26.0 | One third of all of your collagen is made by one amino acid, glycine. |
| 0:32.0 | And glycine is not an essential amino acid, which means that our bodies can |
| 0:36.0 | make it. But here's the thing, our bodies really don't make enough glycine. |
| 0:42.5 | And if you're not getting it from the diet, |
| 0:45.0 | chances are you're gonna be deficient. |
| 0:46.9 | Because normal proteins, red meat or chicken or fish |
| 0:51.1 | or even eggs or even dairy, are not very high in glycine. |
| 0:55.0 | You'd have to be eating the skin on the chicken |
| 0:58.0 | and the cartilage like on the chicken bones |
| 1:01.0 | or organ mates, and a lot of people do not do that. |
| 1:04.0 | So we can be consuming a lot of protein but not getting this one amino acid that could lead to all sorts of issues. |
| 1:11.0 | Check this out. |
| 1:12.0 | Glycine is needed to make the most important |
| 1:16.4 | antioxidant of all your cells. That's called glutathion. If you don't have glycine |
| 1:21.4 | you can't make glutathion, which means you can't detoxify. |
| 1:25.0 | Which means that you're going to have a buildup of toxicity, which relates to inflammation. |
| 1:30.2 | This is one of the reasons why glycine is very anti-inflammatory. |
| 1:35.0 | So glycine is very, very important for your liver. |
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