Hiya, really confused on the amount of collegen to take. I notice that most collegen products come in Mg but when I search for how much to take its on G. The collegen I'm taking at the moment is 400mg and says on the pack not to take more! But the Internet says to take between 2.5 g -80g.
I'm so confused......the maths doesn't work out for me. Does anyone have the answer In mg? Thank you xx
What are you taking it to help?
Collagen is a protein, the most abundant protein in a human. It's basically gelatin, jelly and when you eat it it will be broken down into the component amino acids then your body rebuilds whatever collagen structure is required in the body from those amino acids.
In theory if you have a typical western diet, it should have plenty of collagen in it already, that is where the 2.5-80g comes from.
From memory, we should eat 75g of protein a day? So if most of the protein you consume is collagen, 80g is just fine, if most of what you eat is a different protein, then I guess 2.5g is the minimum the body needs?
I'm not sure what your collagen supplements are claiming to do, maybe give younger skin or something like that?
Skin is indeed heavily dependant on collagen strength, so it's worth a try, but a pinch of salt with it perhaps?
