Tuesday, September 17, 2013
The Most Overlooked Nutrient!
Collagen deficiency causes many issues. there is no real source in the diet we eat day to day which is why its so important to supplement it!
Athletes and regular people are all getting various kinds of Tendonitis. When you add it all together, it is clearly a tendonitis epidemic.
We like to think that tendonitis pain comes from sports or repetitive motion. It doesn't. Tendonitis damage comes from having collagen deficiency and weak connective tissue.
First off, Tendonitis can be separated into two different categories: Tendon pain, which is really Tendonopathy, from irritation and inflammation, and Tendon damage, from wear and tear injury to the fibers of the tendon.
When we talk about the damage kind of Tendonitis, we need to look at the strength of the connective tissue structure. Connective tissue, which includes tendons, ligaments, and cartilage, has very strong structural integrity.
So why is Tendonitis such a huge issue? Why is there no easy cure?
Some of it is from the downsides of activity and repetitive motion. But a huge, giant, invisible factor is the strength of our structure. Is your connective tissue as strong and healthy as it could be?
Connective tissue is made of collagen. Collagen is made of protein fibers. Like bricks in a wall, if you don't have enough protein intake in your daily nutrition, you won't have enough bricks to build a strong wall, or to repair any damage.
In many cases, tendonitis damage continues to cause pain because it just never heals, because it just doesn't have enough building blocks for the tendon to repair itself.
The western diet is short on protein and short on nutrients. Tendons need sufficient protein and sufficient vitamin and mineral nutrients to get strong, stay strong, withstand wear and tear activity, and to repair any damage.
If you don't have the right nutritional intake, your collagen gets weaker and weaker, and it gets easier and easier to get tendon deterioration.
So how do you keep your collagen, connective tissue, and tendons strong, healed, and able to resist damage?
You need a healthy, abundant source of nutrition. Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate supplements are great, but they are expensive and depending on where you get them from, of dubious quality and effectiveness.
As a culture we have moved towards single nutrient supplements and away from what we have traditionally done. It used to be that we ate food, and that sustained us and kept us healthy. As we have moved to processed foods, sugar, and low nutrient fruits and vegetables, our bodies have paid the price.
Food used to keep us healthy and our bodies and tendons strong through all the work our ancestors performed. Food can get you healthy again. And if you want to heal from severe tendonitis, new tendonitis, and especially tendonitis that is hard to explain why you have it, the RIGHT food supplement can provide you the basic building blocks that you need to cure your collagen deficiency.
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I notice a HUGE difference in how my knees feel when I'm getting enough collagen from veggies, specifically cucumbers. They tend to make up a big part of prep for me. :)
ReplyDeletei have tendonitis in both my triceps tendons and a little bit in the left shoulder. with calcification. its taking a LONG-ass time to get over it and i may never. good thing is the inflammation has almost completely gone. i changed my diet to mostly high protein, healthy fats and green vegetables, and vegetable/root juices made with spinach, kale, broccoli, asparagus, celery, turmeric, ginger, mint, red chili.
ReplyDeletei have cut back on my volume and train very basic low volume (can't train heavy :( ) also i would say that some cardio can be beneficial. the thing you don't want to do is stop training altogether but do cut out the offending exercise/methods for some time, take a break, de-load and then go back to basics 1-2 exercises per body part and don't train to failure. just fatigue. its a hard thing if your a volume junky (as i was) but you have to suck it up. it will do your body good. don't forget to stretch. my physio has advised me to pump my triceps full of blood with triceps pushdowns doing 30-40 reps sets.
i have been using MSM and glucosamine sulphate sourced from japan (ajinomoto i think) it was very expensive but is of highest purity. i also use great lakes collagen hydrolysate, vit c and something that not many people use: hyaluronic acid. organic alfalfa is said to be highly effective.
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