Is it time? Or wealth, or lack there of? Not sure, but what has been left behind in modern convenience diets is homemade stews and soups.
A great dinner on a cold day is stew. We will take all our beef, sheep or game bones after butcher (Long bones are cut into 4-6 inch pieces and froze. We'll also freeze the bones remaining after roasts, etc for stews). We will slowly simmer them for a day or so. All the remaining meat, tendon, marrow, all of it, falls off or dissolves into the base. A half hour or so before dinner, add garden carrots, potatoes, parsnips, whatever else feels right for that pot, sometimes frozen green beans atop the servings. In our view, there isn't much better than a neck stew. Sections are complete, neither muscle nor tissue removed, 3 or 4 whole vertebrate depending on size and simmered all day.
2nd comment from me today: Substack has to change its payment plan. Hoping you can add your voice to this Robert. Netflix allowed customers to see hundreds of movies and support thousands of employees (directors, key grips, actors, cinematographers, writers, etc) from dozens of companies with even more staff... for $9.99 per month. Online subscriptions to newspapers with hundreds of staff are a couple bucks a month. Substack wants us to pay a minimum of $5/mo to be able to comment on very important stories. Made by one sole person. Some writers will only allow you to read their life saving information if you pay (not dr. Malone, to his credit). I can't support the dozens of substack writers who need my support at $5/mo. There has to be a revenue sharing plan where you pay $9/mo or something and maybe you get to choose 20 substacks or something. Everyone will win. More paid subscribers and more writers getting supported. Everyone wins.
I have an autoimmune disease that destroys collagen, or so my functional medicine doctor told me. So I take a Collagen Complex of types I, II, V & X. It has the GMP… but it’s bovine and fish, chicken bone broth, egg shell and includes 'DegSEB Digestive Enzyme Blend'. Hopefully, my long term use is helping.
I know you’ve already stated you don’t want to recommend particular products, Dr. Malone, and I respect and understand that. Is there any chance you could point those of us who are interested to a website(s) where you buy your supplements from? There are so many scams out there, any information (keywords to search on, can we find this on Amazon, etc) would be much appreciated! Thank you!
I am so happy to see you cover this topic because I too have benefitted from Collagen. I had started having difficulty holding my urine. Yes, I am older (72) and have had 4 children, but I just didn't believe this had that much to do with my problem. I did treat it as an infection at first with no results, in fact had to then overcome the side effects of the antibiotics. At the same time that the bladder weakness appeared my arthritic knees became unbearable. I seriously felt I was just falling apart. As a side note, my finger nails have been weak and thin, would break easily and just would never grow my entire life. Well, when the knees started to literally feel like the joints were going to fall apart, I started a "combination of collagens" in hopes of consuming all available collagens. I had suffered with the bladder problem for about 3 months, when I took a terrible fall resulting from/in the knee deterioration. I started taking a large dose of the collagen (3 x recommended dose) along with Vitamin C for better absorption, for my knees. Within 2 months my bladder problem just disappeared and within 4 more months my knees began to feel much, much better. At the 4 month point I also noticed my nails were definitely starting to improve. The nails have been a problem for the longest period of time so I am sure they will take the longest to totally improve. I would like to encourage women who believe they need to take drugs for their leaky bladders, to know that their problem may also be due to a drop in collagen. I know this is a huge problem out there and drugs will never get to the root cause of their problems. Thanks again Jill and Robert Malone.
I salt my food well even apples. I have low blood pressure. I eat all of the fat on the meat and try to get the meat with the most fat. The technician said my carotid artery scan showed a cleanliness usually only seen in infants. As the article stated digestive power decreases with age. I am sure you all know that from experience.
Kefir will remedy that. Make your own. It is simple and easy. I convinced my friend to try it which was difficult because he is totally brainwashed by the eggs are good eggs are bad eggs are good eggs are bad crowd. He is a totally different person now. It even cured his extreme allergies.
Thank you so much for helping us navigate through this. This is also true for your domestic pets. The dry kibble, even canned has little nutritional value, promotes dehydration and can drastically reduce the long term quality of life. Including lack of collagen. I am just adding this as an FYI. I supplement the kibble with various raw meats, bone broth and some fruits and veges. I can share the recipe for anyone interested. (pup loaf) :-) It's pretty gross, but they love it.
You may be familiar with cardiologist, Dr. Steven Gundry. It's hard to miss him, he is everywhere on the internet promoting his various formulations of supplements, etc. He also emphasizes, in his info-marketing missives, the critical importance of a well-sourced diet. Because of his recommendations and since I still eat beef, I buy/eat only organic hamburger from grass-fed (not grain-fed) cattle. Supposedly, the omega-3/omega-6 ratio is far healthier for human consumption.
Thank you for writing on this topic showing the science for supporting supplementation of collagen for OA, as I have not tried that before but now will. You had mentioned glyphosate and depletion of vitamins in the food supply, I just happened to find this article from 2014 that shows it was in 75% of rain and air samples. There is a study linked within: https://www.globalresearch.ca/monsantos-roundup-found-in-75-of-air-and-rain-samples/5371398
I'm not sold on the use of collagen, though my functional med doc recommends it, so I'm kind of in the "maybe" camp. It reminds me too much of the fat makes you fat nonsense. Right, and eating hair will cure baldness. Logical, no?
Magnesium is vitally important with your heart issues. If you are taking any meds to relax your blood vessels, you can probably dump it and figure out how much magnesium to take instead. And you'll sleep better if you take it just before bed.
If you have any heart damage (who doesn't if they've had serious heart issues?), then you'll want to read Metabolic Cardiology by Stephen Sinatra and start taking his trio for helping the heart muscle to rebuild (can improve ejection fraction and thus reverse heart failure): CoQ-10, L-carnitine and magnesium.
Repair of tissue particularly takes place in the third stage of the sleep cycle (falling asleep, light sleep, deep sleep, REM), which becomes shorter with aging. So good sleep is a good additional factor here.
Good Article on collagen, Dr. Malone. Good helpers for collagen are vitamin C, 6 to 10 g/day, and citrus bioflavenoids, 1000 mg to 2000 mg per day. The bioflavenoids made a huge improvement in my joints 25 years ago. They have been functioning well with no pain since.
My twin brother came up to stay for two weeks recently. Unable to practice his Keto diet at home, as his wife is a pasta/bread-aholic, he enrolled me into a keto diet and a period of fasting. Lots of beef. My overall health improved markedly, quickly.
Unfortunately, I too love bread, so the effects have diminished since he went home and my consumption of bread picked back up...though not to pre-keto levels.
We get 99% of our meats from a local company that sources only from regional small farms - all grass-fed and finished, pasture raised etc. In addition to muscle meats, we can get offal too.
We also get chicken skin, backs and feet and beef marrow bones. Easy to make up a great batch of broth by including a couple of carrots, celery, all of an onion or whatever other veg trimming we've frozen. Always have a two gallon jug in a fridge.
Is it time? Or wealth, or lack there of? Not sure, but what has been left behind in modern convenience diets is homemade stews and soups.
A great dinner on a cold day is stew. We will take all our beef, sheep or game bones after butcher (Long bones are cut into 4-6 inch pieces and froze. We'll also freeze the bones remaining after roasts, etc for stews). We will slowly simmer them for a day or so. All the remaining meat, tendon, marrow, all of it, falls off or dissolves into the base. A half hour or so before dinner, add garden carrots, potatoes, parsnips, whatever else feels right for that pot, sometimes frozen green beans atop the servings. In our view, there isn't much better than a neck stew. Sections are complete, neither muscle nor tissue removed, 3 or 4 whole vertebrate depending on size and simmered all day.
2nd comment from me today: Substack has to change its payment plan. Hoping you can add your voice to this Robert. Netflix allowed customers to see hundreds of movies and support thousands of employees (directors, key grips, actors, cinematographers, writers, etc) from dozens of companies with even more staff... for $9.99 per month. Online subscriptions to newspapers with hundreds of staff are a couple bucks a month. Substack wants us to pay a minimum of $5/mo to be able to comment on very important stories. Made by one sole person. Some writers will only allow you to read their life saving information if you pay (not dr. Malone, to his credit). I can't support the dozens of substack writers who need my support at $5/mo. There has to be a revenue sharing plan where you pay $9/mo or something and maybe you get to choose 20 substacks or something. Everyone will win. More paid subscribers and more writers getting supported. Everyone wins.
I have an autoimmune disease that destroys collagen, or so my functional medicine doctor told me. So I take a Collagen Complex of types I, II, V & X. It has the GMP… but it’s bovine and fish, chicken bone broth, egg shell and includes 'DegSEB Digestive Enzyme Blend'. Hopefully, my long term use is helping.
I know you’ve already stated you don’t want to recommend particular products, Dr. Malone, and I respect and understand that. Is there any chance you could point those of us who are interested to a website(s) where you buy your supplements from? There are so many scams out there, any information (keywords to search on, can we find this on Amazon, etc) would be much appreciated! Thank you!
I am so happy to see you cover this topic because I too have benefitted from Collagen. I had started having difficulty holding my urine. Yes, I am older (72) and have had 4 children, but I just didn't believe this had that much to do with my problem. I did treat it as an infection at first with no results, in fact had to then overcome the side effects of the antibiotics. At the same time that the bladder weakness appeared my arthritic knees became unbearable. I seriously felt I was just falling apart. As a side note, my finger nails have been weak and thin, would break easily and just would never grow my entire life. Well, when the knees started to literally feel like the joints were going to fall apart, I started a "combination of collagens" in hopes of consuming all available collagens. I had suffered with the bladder problem for about 3 months, when I took a terrible fall resulting from/in the knee deterioration. I started taking a large dose of the collagen (3 x recommended dose) along with Vitamin C for better absorption, for my knees. Within 2 months my bladder problem just disappeared and within 4 more months my knees began to feel much, much better. At the 4 month point I also noticed my nails were definitely starting to improve. The nails have been a problem for the longest period of time so I am sure they will take the longest to totally improve. I would like to encourage women who believe they need to take drugs for their leaky bladders, to know that their problem may also be due to a drop in collagen. I know this is a huge problem out there and drugs will never get to the root cause of their problems. Thanks again Jill and Robert Malone.
I salt my food well even apples. I have low blood pressure. I eat all of the fat on the meat and try to get the meat with the most fat. The technician said my carotid artery scan showed a cleanliness usually only seen in infants. As the article stated digestive power decreases with age. I am sure you all know that from experience.
Kefir will remedy that. Make your own. It is simple and easy. I convinced my friend to try it which was difficult because he is totally brainwashed by the eggs are good eggs are bad eggs are good eggs are bad crowd. He is a totally different person now. It even cured his extreme allergies.
Thank you so much for helping us navigate through this. This is also true for your domestic pets. The dry kibble, even canned has little nutritional value, promotes dehydration and can drastically reduce the long term quality of life. Including lack of collagen. I am just adding this as an FYI. I supplement the kibble with various raw meats, bone broth and some fruits and veges. I can share the recipe for anyone interested. (pup loaf) :-) It's pretty gross, but they love it.
You may be familiar with cardiologist, Dr. Steven Gundry. It's hard to miss him, he is everywhere on the internet promoting his various formulations of supplements, etc. He also emphasizes, in his info-marketing missives, the critical importance of a well-sourced diet. Because of his recommendations and since I still eat beef, I buy/eat only organic hamburger from grass-fed (not grain-fed) cattle. Supposedly, the omega-3/omega-6 ratio is far healthier for human consumption.
Thank you for writing on this topic showing the science for supporting supplementation of collagen for OA, as I have not tried that before but now will. You had mentioned glyphosate and depletion of vitamins in the food supply, I just happened to find this article from 2014 that shows it was in 75% of rain and air samples. There is a study linked within: https://www.globalresearch.ca/monsantos-roundup-found-in-75-of-air-and-rain-samples/5371398
So we should be eating the whole animals or at least a good bone broth occasionally from good beef.
My dd and I would crave a certain Pho that had tripe, tendons etc in it. I wonder if that’s partly why
I'm not sold on the use of collagen, though my functional med doc recommends it, so I'm kind of in the "maybe" camp. It reminds me too much of the fat makes you fat nonsense. Right, and eating hair will cure baldness. Logical, no?
Magnesium is vitally important with your heart issues. If you are taking any meds to relax your blood vessels, you can probably dump it and figure out how much magnesium to take instead. And you'll sleep better if you take it just before bed.
If you have any heart damage (who doesn't if they've had serious heart issues?), then you'll want to read Metabolic Cardiology by Stephen Sinatra and start taking his trio for helping the heart muscle to rebuild (can improve ejection fraction and thus reverse heart failure): CoQ-10, L-carnitine and magnesium.
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Repair of tissue particularly takes place in the third stage of the sleep cycle (falling asleep, light sleep, deep sleep, REM), which becomes shorter with aging. So good sleep is a good additional factor here.
Good Article on collagen, Dr. Malone. Good helpers for collagen are vitamin C, 6 to 10 g/day, and citrus bioflavenoids, 1000 mg to 2000 mg per day. The bioflavenoids made a huge improvement in my joints 25 years ago. They have been functioning well with no pain since.
My twin brother came up to stay for two weeks recently. Unable to practice his Keto diet at home, as his wife is a pasta/bread-aholic, he enrolled me into a keto diet and a period of fasting. Lots of beef. My overall health improved markedly, quickly.
Unfortunately, I too love bread, so the effects have diminished since he went home and my consumption of bread picked back up...though not to pre-keto levels.
Once again, Thank You, Drs. Malone. This is wonderful information (with science!) for those of us interested in good supplementation.
I remain amazed at the spectrum of great information we enjoy getting from you both!! God Bless. Peace to all.
We get 99% of our meats from a local company that sources only from regional small farms - all grass-fed and finished, pasture raised etc. In addition to muscle meats, we can get offal too.
We also get chicken skin, backs and feet and beef marrow bones. Easy to make up a great batch of broth by including a couple of carrots, celery, all of an onion or whatever other veg trimming we've frozen. Always have a two gallon jug in a fridge.