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Hello, this is Dr. Cho Young-min, writing for the first time in 10 days.

I've been quite busy these past few days.. and I felt a bit run-down, with mild body aches..

After taking some medicine I seemed to get a little energy back, so

I'm writing again.

Since opening the clinic, I've been appearing on TV steadily.

What mainly comes up is

containing collagen and elastin

Many of them include health supplements as well.

Although I am not directly promoting it through my TV appearances,

since I appear as a dermatology specialist,

about the relationship between oral collagen and skin elasticity

I think many of you may be curious, so I'd like to write a short post.

If you search for oral collagen on Google,

You can see that there are a great many products out there.

If oral collagen does help.. would eating as much as possible make things better??

When I first heard about oral collagen,

That was exactly the thought I had first.

Aging begins from the mid-20s,

the collagen in our body decreases by 1% at a time,

Maybe, from that age on, taking it in large amounts could prevent aging..

First of all, when you eat collagen, does that collagen go straight to the skin and get synthesized there?

In reality, that is not the case.

When collagen enters the body,

is broken down into amino acids.

these amino acids, once broken down into very small pieces,

By what mechanism would they then go back to the skin and synthesize collagen??

Nothing has been established about this yet.

As for amino acids, there's no particular need to

even without eating collagen..

even if you eat protein-rich foods,

since they can be obtained through the process of breakdown.

In other words, eaten collagen -> replacement of skin collagen

is not what takes place, and

The collagen you eat is broken down into amino acids,

go through re-synthesis and become collagen.

Collagen is said to have a shape like this.

So the conclusion is

Collagen you eat does not travel to your skin and become collagen there.

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But the amount of collagen taken in

As for whether it increases the amount of collagen synthesized,

since nothing has been established yet,

For now, I think of it as being at the level of a health supplement, and

If you can afford it, you can take it. That's the conclusion.

The collagen you actually eat

since there are reports that it also helps the health of fingernails, toenails, and hair,

there's no harm in taking it, but

if you experience side effects such as a bloated stomach after taking it,

It would be best to moderate the amount.

I hope this was helpful, and I'll be back next time with even richer content.