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The Story
Hello, I'm Margot, and I am a middle aged HYPERTENSIVE. That's high blood pressure to you and me. In between working full time and raising my amazing kids, I am working out how not to die, well just yet anyway.
A routine blood pressure check in my mid forties introduced me to a set of new numbers in my life. These number weren't about my family's financial survival but my actual survival. I wasn't just a little bit hypertensive either, I had all out, early death, stage 2 hypertension. Rationally, I knew in my doctor's surgery that morning that there are terrible, instantly life changing, medical diagnoses and that the discovery of high blood pressure wasn't one of them. But I left in no doubt that this was the very real warning shot of hypertension. Ignore it and this so called silent killer would claim me for a premature death and take me from my two young boys. I was angry, terrified and tearful (lots of tears). I asked my friends to make sure my boys knew who their mother was if I died suddenly and then I refused to accept the prescription, blood pressure medication my doctor was discussing. Yes, really, no pills. Odd for a former City professional who had routinely supplemented a liquid diet with anti-inflammatory headache pills. Rejecting the pills was easy. Facing up to the fact that I was killing myself in slow motion as a result of the lousy decisions I made about my health each day was and remains harder.
The vast majority of disease and illness is preventable. There are hundreds of specific, proven actions we can take to increase our odds of living longer and stronger. What matters most are the small decisions we make each day.
he Obelle wellness brand was borne out of my personal search into ways to tame the hormones which have dominated my life at times. O-be-ll-e- or 'Our best life ever' is about harmonizing the competing needs of many 40+ peri-menopausal women with the on-the-go demands of our personal and professional lives. Now in my mid forties, I've slowly adapted to living a plant based lifestyle whilst acknowledging that sometimes I need the reinforcement of supplements and vitamins that I know work.
What I Know...so far!
Can Consuming Collagen Really Make a Difference? Yes actually!
What is Collagen?
Collagen is the most abundant protein in our bodies, found in bones, muscles and tendons as well as skin, hair and nails. It is part of the connective tissue in the skin that creates firmness and suppleness and is vital for skin elasticity, as well as driving skin cell renewal.
We all know that collagen production slows down as we age but for many years
But Collagen Can't Be Absorbed or Penetrate the Skin...
I avoided purchasing collagen supplements, believing in the science which told us that collage molecules were too big to penetrate below the skin or be absorbed though the stomach into the bloodstream.
I didn't really didn't believe that consuming collagen orally could really make a difference. assuming that the collagen would simply be digested and broken down in the stomach before it entered the bloodstream.
However, analysis of recent data has shown that after the molecule is broken down, the fragments are absorbed into the bloodstream and distributed through the entire body, including the skin, where small fragments remain for up to 14 days.
Then comes the interesting bit: your body is essentially tricked into thinking that these fragments indicate the kind of collagen breakdown/damage which your body would suffer with a big tissue injury, telling it that repair is urgently needed. So the presence of the the collagen fragments that you drink actually stimulates fibroblasts to produce more collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid – the compounds that give our skin its youthful qualities. And I personally am all for that.
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