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THE COLLAGEN QUESTION

YOU probably know it’s responsible for your skin’s elasticity and helps to keep your joints healthy. It’s also found in your tendons, cartilage, bones and connective tissue.

Collagen is a structural protein, meaning it makes up the structure or framework of your cells and tissues. But as you age your existing collagen breaks down and from your early twenties it gets harder for your body to produce more.

These days of course you can get

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