Is it OK to take collagen supplements while breastfeeding?

Question by Miss Fitness: Is it OK to take collagen supplements while breastfeeding?
I wanted to start taking collagen for my hair and to hopefully maintain the growth that took place while I was pregnant. In my first pregnancy my hair had shed REALLY BAD. Anyways, my Gyno does not seem to know much about it, but then again she advises for me not to take anything while breastfeeding (she's older and more old fashioned). Has anyone breastfeeding ever took a collagen supplement before, or does anyone have a gyno that has told them it is ok to take? Please let me know :)

Thank you


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Answer by A
I wouldn't have thought so. Everything you take or eat goes through to the milk. If you visit a health shop they have a book they look in and they can tell you. I wouldn't chance it I don't think.

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What food assists your body to make new collagen!!?

Question by magpie: What food assists your body to make new collagen!!?

to be more specific: what foods help replace collagen?


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Answer by pendarvisr
Some like to use glucosamine chondroitin sulfate supplements.

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where can i get a collagen supplement?

Question by Adam: where can i get a collagen supplement?
Like what store(s)? Would a grocery store have it?
@Kat: Mainly skin enhancement


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Answer by Kat
need more info to answer-what do you need it for?

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Vegetarian Collagen?

Question by Lily: Vegetarian Collagen?
I am beginning to get a little concerned about aging. I hear a lot about Collagen supplements being good for reparing the skin and removing fine lines but they all seem to be made from meat.
Can anyone advise me on what supplements to take and changes to me diet I should make to try and slow down the aging process and improve my skin and boost my own collagen?
I have been vegetarian for 20 years.


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Answer by I Drive a Mini
Try using Arbonne products. Most of their sking care products are vegan friendly, but their supplements are NOT.
If you need help finding them in your area, let me know.

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Should i take collagen supplement?

Question by Carol: Should i take collagen supplement?
Hi, i'm 22 female. A friend of mine recommend me to take collagen for skin care, weight control, hair nail thickness, and all other good things comes along. My question is am i too young to take collagen supplement? ( i got the NeoCell Collagen +c from costco).

Thanks


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Answer by Tari
Here i s an excellent site with some wonderful options for you. It will definitely help you. Have a look. http://med33.notlong.com/7AA4Seu

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are there any foods that can boost collagen?

Question by Eve: are there any foods that can boost collagen?
does anyone know any foods that can boost collagen so my face is more plumped up and smooth. if you do can you also so tell how much i would need of the food in a day (if you know)

thanks

x


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Answer by kevinmccleanblack
Vitamin C is involved in collagen production
Beauty Foods
Blueberries contain more than three times as many antioxidants as oranges, cherries, and grapes. They also contain anthocyanins, a pigment that is high in antioxidant activity and ellagic acid, a disease fighting phytochemical.

Skin Benefits
Helps repair DNA damage caused by toxins or pollutants (e.g. smoking). May be beneficial in slowing and/or reversing some neuronal and behavioral effects of aging.

Recommended Supplements
Multivitamin
Vitamin C
Vitamin A

Beauty Foods
Small red beans contain flavonoids, iron, magnesium and zinc, which are all important in maintaining over all health and wellness.

Skin Benefits
Magnesium and zinc help aid the absorption of calcium, which helps promote proper bone health. Enhances the body’s energy level. Helps the body and skin cope with environmental stress.

Recommended Supplements
Multivitamin
Iron
Calcium with magnesium and zinc
B-complex vitamins

Beauty Foods
Grapes seeds and skin contain flavonoids, such as proanthocyanidins or PCOs that are powerful antioxidants.

Skin Benefits
Potent antioxidants activity helps fight free radicals associated with signs of aging. Helps improve blood circulation and strengthen blood vessels, which is important for varicose veins or leg cramps. Helps keep certain constituents with skin (i.e. collagen, elastin, hyaluronic acid) healthy, by blocking enzymes that may disrupt or destroy their chemical structure.

Recommended Supplements
Multivitamin
Potassium
Grape seed extract

Beauty Foods
Fish, such as salmon and tuna contain omega-3 fatty acids, which can boost skin appearance.

Skin Benefits
Helps support blood flow to maintain healthy and beautiful skin, soothe dry skin and reduce skin inflammation. Can increase skin radiance by offering a protective effect against premature aging.

Recommended Supplements
Fish oil
Flaxseed oil

Beauty Foods
Artichoke Hearts are packed with ingredients that help promote a healthy skin appearance, such as folate, potassium, biotin, and vitamin C.

Skin Benefits
Helps maintain healthy skin and nails, supports collagen and skin firmness and protects against free radicals that accelerate the signs of aging.

Recommended Supplements
Multivitamin
Vitamin C
Folic Acid

Beauty Foods
Blackberries are a great source of vitamin E and C and are high in antioxidants activity. They also contain ellagic acid, which is a disease fighting phytochemical.

Skin Benefits
Helps support collagen for firmness and elasticity, smooth skin, and helps protect against free radicals that contribute to aging.

Recommended Supplements
Multivitamin
Potassium
Vitamin C
Vitamin E

Beauty Foods
Strawberries are high in antioxidants, B vitamins, potassium, and fiber for overall health and wellness.

Skin Benefits
Helps support healthy collagen, the skin’s natural support structure, essential for the structure of collagen and elastin, which assist in the firmness and elasticity of the skin and also provides and environmental defense system for the skin.

Recommended Supplements
Vitamin C
Vitamin A
B-complex vitamins

Beauty Foods
Apples have quercetine, and anti-inflammatory property and pectin, which is a soluble fiber that helps, control blood cholesterol levels.

Skin Benefits
Helps maintain water balance and distribution, pH balance, muscle and nerve cell function, heart function and kidney and adrenal function in the body. Helps stop cellular damage.

Recommended Supplements
Multivitamin
Vitamin C
Potassium

Beauty Foods
Pecans provide adequate levels of vitamin E, zinc, and magnesium, which help promote healthy skin.

Skin Benefits
Helps protect skin cells from oxidative damage, provides nourishment to the skin, helps smooth skin texture. And helps fight free radicals in the body that increase as you age.

Recommended Supplements
Multivitamin
Vitamin C
Zinc

Beauty Foods
Squash is a great source of vitamin A, which helps fight free radicals

Skin Benefits
Plays an important role in cell activity that can help maintain the health and youthful beauty of the skin. Protects skin cells from oxidative damage that can lead to signs of premature aging, helps relieve dry skin and uneven skin tone. And can enhance and regulate sluggish skin cell regeneration.

Recommended Supplements
Vitamin A

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As one ages i have been told you lose collagen?

Question by SunTan: As one ages i have been told you lose collagen?
Can one drink collagen capsules such as collagen contector to improve your collagen and thereby hopefully reduce facial wrinkles?

Thanks this question is for my mom :)


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Answer by nickipettis
it s true. i don't think drinking colleen will help - it would be broken down in the stomach. but taking the compounds that contribute to making collagen might help.

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Is it a bad idea to take collagen supplements if your 16?

Question by gjgfojgog: Is it a bad idea to take collagen supplements if your 16?
This is what the vitamins say:



The main reason for the formation of fine lines, wrinkles and the appearance of ageing is the depletion of collagen in the skin. Collagen is the most abundant structural protein in the body and as we age we start to lose our natural supply.

Super Collagen™ with added Vitamin C is from 100% pure pharmaceutical collagen which works skin deep and may combat this loss to plump up the skin and reduce the appearance of fine lines. Collagen has been scientifically proven to improve nail and hair health and users report their nails become less brittle and their hair glossier and thicker.

This exclusive system contains a food grade collagen supplement formula. When used as directed, it may help in the reduction of frown lines, crows feet and nasal labial lines as it can help stimulate natural collagen production.

Other benefits include the promotion of elasticity in connective tissue, blood vessels to improve circulation and a glowing complexion. It has the ability to cleanse/detoxify the body, which in turn starts the whole process of progressive regeneration.


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Answer by Cornelia
Still 16. Improve your body in the most natural way. And again, still 16. You probably and absolutely don't have wrinkles. Fruits or Vit C supplements are fine if you want healthy skin.

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Collagen alternative for vegetarians?

Question by incognito: Collagen alternative for vegetarians?
I saw this pills called Collagen plus C and I was really interested until I learnt they come from cattle's skin.. I really want to take something to prevent or slow down skin's aging process but I have been a vegetarian since October 2007 and I'm not planning to change..What can be a collagen alternative for vegetarians?


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Answer by Az R
I don't quite understand why you'd want to eat collagen - it's a complex protein that wouldn't be absorbed in any fashion at all, it'd just be degraded by your stomach acid and enzymes.

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Will drinking collagen make a nasty scar worse than ever?

Question by riemannhyper: Will drinking collagen make a nasty scar worse than ever?
I've been drinking collagen supplement to keep my skin and hair healthy. However, I had a minor accident last month and caused me a nasty-looking scar on my knee. I've tried rubbing shea butter lotion on it every day but I wonder if my drinking of collagen prevents it from disappearing.

It's hideously dark! PLS HELP ME!! also, any ideas to make the scar look better. I don't like expensive treatments. just over the counter products.


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Answer by drew2376
Don't tan first of all. Tanning will make it worse. Microderm abrasion has been known to lighten or fade scars. Your collagen supplements only aid in maintaining the health of your skin increasing the time table for your first wrinkle. Will have a minor effect on skin surrounding the scar tissue.

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Is it safe to drink collagen?

Question by Victoria: Is it safe to drink collagen?
I saw on Oprah that women in Japan drink Collagen daily to keep their skin smooth and fair. Is it safe to so this?


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Answer by chipparoo2002
That is just crazy!

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Herbal supplements and/or good foods to build collagen?

Question by RandomGonzo: Herbal supplements and/or good foods to build collagen?
My son is being evaluated for Marfan syndrome, due to some physical traits he has (he's very tall & thin, has some chest malformation), and also because it runs in my family.

I've read that certain foods, such as asparagus, can help build collagen (fibrillin), since if you have Marfan's, or something similar, you don't make as much of this. Are there other foods? How about natural/herbal supplements?


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Answer by SunnyCA2FL2006
I don't know of any supplement that will help with Marfan's. Accordingly, although there is no cure for Marfan syndrome yet, there are several different treatment options that can minimize and prevent complications.

You've probably read may articles regarding this but talk with your son's specialist to see if he has any recommendations and if he knows of any studies currently being done and what if any are the results so far.

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What happens if I mix Collagen 1 & 3 with whey protein powder?

Question by JeWelzncO.: What happens if I mix Collagen 1 & 3 with whey protein powder?
It says on the bottle not to mix with any *other* protein powder supplements (I wasn't aware collagen pills were protein o_O), but I would really like to start working out again and taking whey protein.. It looks like I'm gonna have to chose between the two, I'm just wondering why? Does collagen help build muscle (can i take it after a workout instead of whey protein)?


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Answer by Fяαgιℓє♰Le Sò Tutte♰
From the prevalence and natural fresh foods, limiting heavy sauces, fried foods, sweets, salt and white sugar, sausages, alcohol, sauces, mayonnaise, ketchup, potato chips and salty snacks varied, and sugary fizzy drinks, peanuts / peanut and the like.
It 'important to 5 small meals a day instead of large binges 2 times a day. Never skip breakfast.
The feeding schedule can be so kind: breakfast of simple and complex carbohydrates (bread, rusks, wholemeal biscuits or cereal flakes), milk or yogurt and fruit. Lunch will be single-pan based on complex carbohydrates (pasta, rice, dumplings, potatoes) or legumes. The dinner, protein-based (range from red meat, white fish, eggs and low-fat cheese). Both lunch and dinner should contain a good amount of vegetables.
Prefer bread, pasta and whole grains.
Give priority to fruit and vegetables in season.
Drink plenty of water out of the main meals ..... all I know ..; /

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Are collagen supplements a viable alternative to injection?

Question by Steven Y: Are collagen supplements a viable alternative to injection?



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Answer by oldtimekid2
Yes and no. By taking it supplementally, it does help support the health of the joints, but it won't be as fast of an impact as directly injecting some into your joint. Also, vegetarians really couldn't take a supplemental collagen because it would be from an animal source (although injections could be chemically created so they aren't from animals in theory).
The more positive sides of the supplemental form is that you're taking it as nature intended (eating collagen orally) so your body will process it as it needs and send the nutrients where it's needed just as human bodies have since the dawn of man. Also, it's a lot more cost efficient (and often time efficient) to take a daily pill than go into your doctor's office for an injection every so often. By taking it daily, you'll also keep the joints (all the joints, not just the one you inject it into) healthy and moving more comfortably while the shots are commonly only given when you're in enough pain.

Either way, it will nourish the joints so it's really personal preference and personal need, but those are the main reasons I can think of that people may prefer one over the other. Good luck and I hope I helped!

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Are Collagen Supplements worth it?

Question by 3riCa: Are Collagen Supplements worth it?
I'm looking at a collagen dietary supplement that's relatively cheap for its serving-price ratio. It has Collagen Types 1 and 3 and it instructs me to take 6.6 (1 scoop) grams of this everyday.

So will this help my skin be softer?


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Answer by Sur La Mer
NEVER take supplements without your doctor's OK.

Supplements, medications, anti-acne products, hair oil, birth control pills, pollution in the water, to name just a few . . . ALL HAVE SIDE EFFECTS. Watch the movie called SIDE EFFECTS. Example: "I used minoxidil drug to restore the hair on my head; however, I ended up with unwanted body hair. I don't know if it is temporary or I have to seek medical treatment." YA poster 9-27-12.

Any reactions to a drug - like Vitamin B complex which is a supplement - 'side effect' is a negative reaction to a drug - this is your body telling you that what you just gave it is toxic to it, and instead of helping you, it is actually hurting you.  It is your body's way of telling you to stop.  All drugs have side effects, and are toxic...even lethal...to some people at some dosage.  Another term for toxic is poisonous.  We owe it to ourselves to try less toxic treatments first.  Especially since too many drugs merely cover up symptoms rather than treat the underlying cause of the symptom in the first place.

Another example: Green Tea supplement: Green tea extract supplements have been linked to several cases of liver damage. Green tea extracts might make liver disease worse.

Source: Health Magazine, FDA, Slate dot com
Another example: Vitamin D posted on Facebook: "I'm regretting reading the small print on my bottle of Vitamin D capsules. The source is "wool oil." So... sheep sebum? I can't get the (hopefully imagined) smell of wet sheep out of my mouth now."

You want softer skin? Exfoliate using a wash cloth & bath & body wash each time you take a shower.
Too much soaking in the tub or pool, and the sun are skin's worst enemies. Use a wide brim hat or umbrella when you're outside.

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Collagen supplements give me a headache?!?

Question by Carla S: Collagen supplements give me a headache?!?
I started taking a collagen supplement 4 days ago, taking 3 capsules two times a day, a total of 6 grams a day. It says to take on an empty stomach, but I never have an empty stomach (besides when I wake up in the morning) so I take them 2 hours after eating. But I noticed that for 3 times it gave me a headache a few minutes after I take the capsules. Is this normal? Should I experiment another brand or should I just don´t take collagen supplements because of the side effects?


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Answer by Healer (not the dog kind)
Carla, stop taking that supplement. Collagen is too big molecule to be getting through the skin , so even in creams is useless. In capsules, through your digestive system it will be just broken down to its building blocks, to amino acids. It will be no longer a collagen once it is through your stomach. It is a gimmick. Don't waste your money on it.

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What are your thoughts about Collagen?

Question by Thomas: What are your thoughts about Collagen?
So I went to Cost-Co the other day and they were giving out samples of Collagen Type 1,2, and 3 and I just never heard about taking this as a supplement I always thought Collagen was in your knee caps and that's what lubricates your joints. What are your thoughts on Collagen do you think I need to take it. Im 20 years old 210lbs 6'8


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Answer by Yahoo
I like it

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What are the effects of taking collagen supplements at age 18?

Question by John: What are the effects of taking collagen supplements at age 18?



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Answer by Peach
Im 50 and well preserved. Supplements are NOT necessary if you have a decent diet of Fruits vegetables Carbs and moderate amounts of protein. The only thing we are seeking collagen for is in our late 30s we dont want wrinkles so we put it around our eyes..
Self preservation is good diet exercise and POSITIVE OUTLOOK in life. and it doesnt hurt when you have a group of supportive people around you too.!

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can taking collagen supplements increase chances for scarring?

Question by tyler: can taking collagen supplements increase chances for scarring?

or make you more prone to scarring?


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Answer by HermitSoul
NO
It good for nothing to be honest

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What are some natural sources of collagen protein; and, why is is collagen protein so important?

Question by the girl: What are some natural sources of collagen protein; and, why is is collagen protein so important?
Is it really better than other proteins? Can I get enough of it through proper diet? If so, what food are best?


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Answer by gonzo_50
Helps build muscles

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