- Collagen is a protein that serves as a key structural component of connective tissue in skin, hair, nails and joints.
- The Dermis, the inner layer of the skin, contains large amounts of collagen which breaks down at a rate of 1.5% every year after the age of 25. The skin's surface becomes dull and lifeless and the elasticity reduces over time causing certain parts to sag and wrinkle.
- Introducing collagen with products such as PureLogicol® body supplement to your body can boost natural collagen production.
- PureLogicol® body supplement produces noticeable results, with skin becoming firmer and the dramatic visible reduction of lines and wrinkles after only a few weeks of use.
- Collagen has been proven to be beneficial for the improvement of the elasticity of the skin aiding repair and regeneration of ligaments, tendons, joints and bones and improving the connective tissue of the skin.
- In the Harvard Medical School arthritis research on collagen, up to 89.9% of those tested reported a greater ease of movement.
- The way your skin looks is directly related to the way your skin is supported. Wrinkles form when the natural collagen and hyaluronic acid in your skin diminish during the natural ageing process.
- PureLogicol® face mask and serum offers a high quality collagen and hyaluron to help support the underlying tissue and help slow down the ageing process.
- Collagen provides structure and volume to your skin.
- PureLogicol® body supplement provides collagen and amino acids to help maintain healthy skin.�
- PureLogicol products contain Pure Hydrolysed Collagen, compliant with year 2000 readiness requirements. Edible Food Regulation no. 1999/724 EC.
- Collagen allows protein to be bio-available and water soluble - meaning it can be absorbed readily.
- Collagen stabilises the body's immune system and helps neutralise production of abnormal molecular structures which is also known to be a major cause of joint problems and stiffness and provides the raw materials for cartilage.
- Collagen to works at its optimum level during alpha sleep mode when the body's regeneration and rejuvenation mechanism is at its best. Therefore it is best to take supplements 1 hour after eating and just before sleeping.
- Drinking 1 1/2 litres of water daily helps disperse nutrients into the body and aid the detoxifying and regeneration process.
- Over 2,500 individuals have been clinically tested over the last three decades and there are NO KNOWN SIDE EFFECTS or contra-indications when taking collagen.
Collagen has an unusual amino acid composition. It contains large amounts of glycine and proline, as well as two amino acids that are not inserted directly by ribosomes - hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine - the former composing a rather large percentage of the total amino acids. They are derivatised from proline and lysine in enzymatic processes of post translational modification, for which vitamin C is required. This is related to why vitamin C deficiencies can cause scurvy, a disease that leads to loss of teeth and easy bruising caused by a reduction in strength of connective tissue due to a lack of collagen or defective collagen.
The white collagen that makes up the matrix of most connective tissue in mammals consists of inter-woven fibres of the protein collagen. The collagen fibres consist of globular units of the collagen sub-unit tropocollagen. Tropocollagen sub-units spontaneously arrange themselves under physiological conditions into staggered array structures stabilised by numerous hydrogen and covalent bonds.
Tropocollagen sub-units are left-handed triple helices where each strand is, further, a right-handed helix itself. Thus, tropocollagen may be considered to be a coiled coil. Each chain is left handed helix and the wrapping is right-handed!
Another rare feature of collagen is its regular arrangement of amino acids in each of the alpha chains of the collagen sub-units.
The sequence generally follows the pattern Gly-X-Y, where Gly for glycine, and X and Y for any amino acid residues.
Most of the times, X is for proline and Y is for hydroxyproline. There are very few other proteins with such regularity.
The inordinate number of Gly residues allows the otherwise sterically disallowed, tight coiling of each of the alpha chain subunits of tropocollagen, where there is a rise per turn of just 0.3 nm as opposed to the .36 nm of a regular Alpha helical coil.
Hydroxylysine and hydroxyproline play important roles in the stabilisation of the tropocollagen globular structure as well as the final fibre shaped structure by forming covalent bonds. The resulting structure is called a collagen helix.