Health Minute Audio Summary:
Is there a simple answer to avoiding many common health problems? Understanding the function of collagen and collagen-dissolving enzymes provides fundamental answers to preventing infectious, inflammatory, and heart disease, not to mention cancer and cancer metastases. Research done by the late Nobel Laureate, Linus Pauling, Ph.D. and Matthias Rath, M.D. has absolutely transformed my view of health in the last couple of years. It’s what I call the “Collagen Connection”. I am convinced that the application of this information will prevent many health problems for you —it already has for me.
MY EXPERIMENT
Someplace I read that L-lysine supplementation could help prevent tooth decay. On of the side-effects from the corticosteroid medication I have to take for Addison’s Disease is loss of bone density, which has included in my case, more frequent tooth decay. I started taking L-lysine about two and half years before this writing, along with one of our collagen supplements (that being taken for ache and pain symptoms).
I don’t know if I got any improvement on tooth decay or aches and pains, but another unexpected benefit occurred — I stopped getting sick! I found myself going through the entire winter without getting a cold, flu, respiratory infection — any of the usual stuff. Then I came across the Pauling/Rath research and began to understand why.
WHAT IS COLLAGEN?
One-fourth of all the protein in the body is collagen. Collagen is a structural protein, analogous to the mortar in a brick building, the bricks being the cells. Collagen is the fibrous, elastic connective tissue that holds our bodies together, providing structural support with rope-like molecular cables. Collagen makes up much of our tendons, ligaments, joints, muscles, skin, hair and other tissues. It provides protection and support for the body’s soft tissues and connects them with the skeleton. Adding crystalline minerals to collagen produces our bones and teeth.
Collagen is composed of three tightly wound chains of amino acids where three amino acids are repeated — glycine, proline and hydroxyproline. Hydroxyproline results from oxygen reacting with proline, a reaction that is dependent on vitamin C. Thus, vitamin C deficiency inhibits new collagen from being formed resulting in scurvy.
The body contains 19 types of collagen, though the following are the most common:
Type I — Main component of ligaments, tendons and bones.
Type II — Composes 50% of protein in cartilage.
Type III — Provides structure for arteries, intestine, uterus and other hollow body parts.
Type IV —Makes up basal lamina or “basement membrane” of epithelia tissue. This type of collagen is different in that it forms a “meshwork”. It provides a filter for the blood capillaries and the glomeruli of the kidneys.
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