Your Collagen Powder Is Doing NOTHING

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The collagen powder that you use, usually in your coffee or as a supplement, does nothing. Unless you understand this one thing I’m about to share with you. Full disclosure, I sell collagen powder, but there’s something very specific about collagen powder that allows it to work for your bones, your tendons, your ligaments, your discs, your cartilage, your fascia, your skin, and your blood vessels. And that is this: Collagen does not respond to generic exercise. Taking collagen powder only works with mechanical inputs.

I’m talking about very specific types of force put on your body at a certain speed, at a certain timing, or certain rest, depending on what tissue you’re trying to build. The bones in your body, I’m talking about these things right here, are actually electrical. And it’s something very fascinating because every time you walk, or you move, or you activate your muscles, you are generating an electrical current. It’s called a piezoelectric effect. Okay, what does that mean?

It means that you’re using certain pressure or squeezing movement to create electrical impulses. And what I’m building up to is it takes motion, mechanical movements to activate the collagen that you are taking in your body. No motion, a sedentary lifestyle, the collagen is expensive urine. This is super interesting. If you take a bedridden hospital patient, and you evaluate their bone density, you will see faster breakdown of their bone than you would see in outer space with an astronaut under zero gravity.

Astronauts lose between 1 to 2% of their bone density every single month floating in space without gravity. Bedridden humans, which are very sedentary, lose that every single week. So, the lack of motion causes your body to decay at a very rapid rate. I remember the summer after my senior year in high school, I broke my lower leg. I needed it cast.

So, I remember keeping the cast on for I think it’s like 4 to 5, maybe 6 weeks. And of course, I kept my lower calf immobilized. In fact, I remember taking off the cast, looking at my leg, going, “What the heck is that? ” Like there’s no calf left. All the muscle that I had in my calf was completely shriveled up to nothing.

That’s because I had no mechanical motion to electrically stimulate the collagen within the muscle and the joints as well. And this is what people with arthritis need to know. Arthritis causes pain when you put your joint in a certain range of motion. And so, the body is telling you, “Don’t move. Stay still.

” So, pain is a really big barrier in maintaining the amount of collagen that stays in your connective tissue, joints, ligaments, and cartilage. It’s truly a double-edged sword because pain prevents the motion and the lack of motion prevents the rebuilding and healing of the joint. But the most deadly version of this is prolonged sitting. Now, what I’m describing is myself. For years, I had all sorts of joint problems and I didn’t move my joints.

Then I ended up with all sorts of arthritis. So, it forced me to look outside the box to come up with something that I’m going to share with you a little bit later. But talk about prolonged sitting, I was a poster child. I would get up in the morning early at 4:00 and sit at my desk until probably 5:00 or 6:00 or maybe 7:00. And then I would get on my bike and go exercise.

But that was not enough. Now, the reason I’m bringing all this up is because people think they could just take some collagen and fix their joints. It’s not going to work. You need both collagen and the mechanical inputs to tell the collagen what to do. Now, if you have the mechanical inputs like exercise without the collagen, that doesn’t work either.

So, you need the raw material, collagen, and you need to know the specific mechanical things to build out the different tissues. And that’s what we’re going to get into next. So, think of that like this, collagen is the bricks and motion is the person who lays the bricks and says where the bricks go. I’ll give you one last point before I get into this. An average person is deficient in collagen because 30% of all of our protein is collagen, and usually when you’re consuming collagen in the diet, an average person might get between 1 and 3% of that.

An average person is deficient between 7 and 10 g of collagen every single day. People don’t eat the skin on chicken or fish, they like tender meat, so they just don’t get the collagen. So, this is why a lot of people are doing the collagen powder. But, we need very specific types of mechanical stimulation to create effects on the different tissues. And you really don’t even need a gym or hours of exercise every single day.

You just need to know the specific mechanical inputs to affect the different tissues in the body. If you wanted to create bone, this is a specific force that you’d want to do. Short bursts of exercise, a longer workout with lots of rest. Bones need more weight-bearing loads, heavier loads, especially because most people lose the bone in the lower back and hip area. And that’s the last place you want to fracture.

Also, if you did 5 to 10 powerful jumps few times a week, you’re going to be sending the specific information into the bone structure to tell the body to make solid bones. And just as a side note, you need vitamin K2 with magnesium to make solid bones. Now, what about tendons? What’s a tendon? A tendon is a connection between your muscle and a bone.

The best way to build up tendons is through no motion, but put your tendons under force like 30 to 40 seconds of isometric holds. Isometric is contracting without motion. So, for example, let’s take the Achilles tendon that’s attached to your calf and your heel. So, if you were to do a toe raise and hold that contraction for 30-40 seconds, that would help strengthen that tendon. Also, eccentric type of contraction.

Eccentric motions are when you’re elongating a muscle. If you wanted to strengthen the tendons that are connected to your tricep, you’d want to lift up on a pull-up bar and slowly let yourself down. Elongating the tricep muscle creating an eccentric type force on those tendons. So, a lot of people ask me, what supplements do I recommend? Now, of course, I’m not biased of my own high-quality supplement line, but if you go to Amazon and type Dr.

Berg supplements, you’ll find more information. So, now let’s move to ligaments. What’s a ligament? So, if you’re looking at the knee joint right here, if you had a connection between these two bones, that’s called a ligament. One of the best ways to strengthen ligaments is standing on one foot with your eyes closed.

The ligaments respond to unpredictability and then they respond by becoming stronger. Also, another thing with the ligaments is bringing the joint to the end range of motion. Like, for example, if I was going to take my neck to extension all the way and then resist going this way, I’m going to strengthen my ligaments because I’m going to add some force at the end of the range of motion. I have a dynamite video in the description below explaining how to remodel the joints using this right here. Let’s move on to your discs.

Now, the discs are in the back right through here that connect the different spinal segments. So, we want to create kind of a compression and elongation on that spine. And one way you can do it is by hanging, okay, on something creating your body weight distraction. You can also do an inversion table where you’re lying upside down. I have two different inversion tables.

It creates a pumping action for the disc. You could do flexion and extension type exercises for the spine, super important. All of these unique mechanical inputs tell collagen to go to the disc and heal it