The Collagen Diet by Dr. Josh Axe

Author:Dr. Josh Axe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2019-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Collagen Secrets to Eliminate Pain and Inflammation

The Most Effective Strategy for Protecting Joints and Boosting Athletic Performance

Remember the information I shared in Chapter 6 about big-name professional athletes like Alex Rodriguez, Kobe Bryant, and Peyton Manning using stem cells to rejuvenate the collagen in the connective tissue around their joints? That is just one fascinating piece of a much larger—and rapidly expanding—story of the ways in which collagen can be the pivotal factor in keeping your joints healthy.

Joint health isn’t just an issue for professional athletes. It affects everyone and matters for all of us—from the young, who want to preserve their springy, robust, and highly functioning tendons, cartilage, and ligaments, to recreational athletes and weekend warriors of every age, who want to continue participating in the activities they love for as long as they possibly can, to the growing population of mature and aged people, some of whom are living dangerously sedentary lives because they suffer from pain and disability due to loss of healthy connective tissue.

Between 2002 and 2014, the number of people who said they battled severe joint pain (rated seven or more on a scale of one to ten) jumped from 10.5 million to 14.6 million, according to the Centers for Disease Control100—and the numbers have almost certainly grown since then. About 54 million adults, by a conservative estimate, currently have medically diagnosed arthritis, the leading cause of joint pain, but by 2040, it’s expected that some 78 million adults in the United States—a quarter of the population!—will be struggling with the condition.101

Fortunately, collagen can provide much-needed relief no matter how severe the disease. And for those suffering with debilitating daily pain, it can be the secret ingredient that helps them regain their mobility, and along with it, their capacity to live independent, functional, engaged lives.

When Oregon resident Lora Stone, fifty-five, reached out to me not long ago, she told me that’s exactly what happened to her. As a kid, she was a hard-core athlete and daredevil. “I raced dirt bikes and played three sports all through middle school and high school,” she said. “When it came to fitness, I never learned to take it easy or be chill.” Over the years she broke twenty bones, including several in her back. And then, as she got older, the pain set in. “I have arthritis in my hands, feet, knees, and back—and there are times when it has been debilitating,” she said. “It got to the point where I couldn’t really exercise anymore—and I don’t do well with medications, so most of the time I just suffered.”

That began to change in June 2017, when a friend recommended she try collagen supplements. “After three months of using a couple of scoops of multi-collagen protein every day, I had less pain in my back and joints, and they were no longer making the terrible grinding sounds I had grown used to,” she said. “After a year of using collagen, my pain level was way down and my endurance and energy were higher than they’d been for a long time.

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