A. The collagen supplements you may need to add to your own health kit depends on their origins, reliable and ethical vendors, your physical activity, DNA indicators, lifestyle, health, and individualized needs.

It is so easy to reach for a package marked collagen on a shelf. But if you are an informed buyer you will be checking out the label and website. Look for the origins, contents, and credentials of the suppliers. Look for a guarantee label. Look for a reputable company with substantial premises in full operation, not a back door facility where someone is hoping to capitalise on health trends.

Snake oil vendors are two penny all over the world. Too many people have been buying honey for example in heavily commercialised plastic bottles. This so-called honey turns out to be a highly processed mixture of glucose, fructose, dextrose, maltose, and a host of other ingredients with a small percentage of honey. Those additive ingredients which disguise sugar in volumes enough to harm a diabetic never mind that of a perfectly healthy person should be avoided at all costs.

Do not contaminate your body with disguised refined sugars, additives, flavourants, and carbohydrates that can do your body harm. The same rule applies to any supplement you buy not only collagen. Be alert. Your body has been described as a temple. Treasure it by choosing wisely within any food purchase.

A. Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body. Your body may be made up of organs, tissues and cells but something needs to hold them together and that – is connective tissue. Without collagen as a building block, there would be no connective tissue. Think of it as a framework, an essential structure without which you would not able to function. Bones, joints, skin, hair and muscles enjoy the benefit. So collagen needs to be maintained to live a normal, healthy and productive life. Did you know that according to scientists quoted in Time Magazine, the child that will live to 150 has already been born? That suggests a quality life can be yours for 15 decades. You must be a decision maker in your journey of life.

A. When you are young your body has the ability to synthesis collagen for the benefit of skin, muscle, ligaments, tendons, bones, hair and gut health. As you get older your body does not respond the same way. Approximately a third of your body’s protein comprises collagen. When your body’s ability to produce collagen slows down dramatically it may be time for you to take charge and provide solutions. You are not a hostage to your genes. Collagen loss can be experienced as unwanted side effects of aging: joint wear, inflexibility, loss of muscle tone, dull hair, arthritic aches reduced mobility, pain and loss of skin elasticity. Wrinkles set in. Collagen and exercise go together. Look at a complete picture to slow the aging process.

It is your body – prevent deterioration and do repairs now as you note early symptoms of collagen deficiencies: body pains, stiff joints, dry skin, dull hair, weak muscles, lack of body tone, inflexibility and reduced mobility