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What Supplement Is Good For Hair, Skin, Nails, And Joint Health?
Written By: Allie Might, FMC, INHC, ATT For further questions or concerns email me at carcidiacono@invitehealth.com Everyone’s heard of collagen. It’s typically associated with cosmetic fillers and beauty products. However, collagen is also an essential nutrient as it is vital to every part of the body. …
What The Heck Is Collagen? – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 565
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What The Heck Is Collagen? – InViteⓇ Health Podcast, Episode 565
Hosted by Allie Might, FMC, INHC, ATT
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InViteⓇ Health Podcast Intro: Welcome to the InViteⓇ Health Podcast, where our degreed healthcare professionals are excited to offer you the most important health and wellness information you need to make informed choices about your health. You can learn more about the products discussed in each of these episodes and all that InViteⓇ Health has to offer at www.invitehealth.com/podcast. First time customers can use promo code PODCAST at checkout for an additional 15% off your first purchase. Let’s get started! †
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Allie Might, FMC, INHC, ATT: [00:00:42] Welcome to the InViteⓇ Health podcast, where today we will discuss one of my favorite things, collagen. This is Alli Might, integrative nutrition health coach and functional medicine coach here to navigate you through the world of collagen. We’ve all heard about collagen, but it can seem overwhelming when trying to decide which is the best option for one’s needs. There are sources such as bovine or cow, chicken and marine or fish and 28 different types. Let’s focus on the most common sources bovine and chicken and types one, two and three. † [00:01:17]
[00:01:18] Type one collagen is the most common. It helps bone matrix, which is the foundation of building bone. And supports the connective tissues like hair, skin, nails, as well as muscles, tenants and ligaments. Type two collagen is commonly known as cartilage. This is solely used to support and maintain the cartilage within our joints. Type three Collagen is helpful for our organs, gut and blood vessels. It can also help improve elasticity in the skin. Now that we had a quick crash course in the sources and the main types of collagen, let’s discuss the many options we have here at InViteⓇ Health. † [00:02:01]
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[00:02:02] Let’s start with Collagen HxⓇ as it’s our original collagen supplement. This bovine source collagen is partnered with Boswellia, which adds some nice anti-inflammatory relief. I recommend this product to almost everyone. It’s an ideal option for anyone looking to maintain strong connective tissues such as hair, skin, nails, muscles and joints. It can also help support those not only suffering from osteoarthritis, but collagen helps build bone matrix, which is the building block for bone building, making it ideal for anyone with a bone injury, osteopenia or osteoporosis. Incorporating two scoops of our vanilla flavored Collagen HxⓇ per day in water, plain yogurt or a smoothie starts you on the right path. The Collagex HAⓇ from Dr. Pressman is a wonderful collagen formula that not only has a proprietary blend with natural anti-inflammatories, but also contains nutrients like glucosamine sulfate and hyaluronic acid to help support the joints. Taking one scoop a day is a great way to help support joints and spine issues such as bulging discs. For those who prefer something in a pill form instead of powders, the Collagen 3000 tablets are something to consider. These tablets don’t have any anti-inflammatories added, but is strictly a source of collagen taking 5 to 7 tablets a day gives you the collagen you’re looking for and it’s also an easy way to pack for a weekend getaway or longer trip without taking up too much space. † [00:03:47]
[00:03:48] Over the past few years, I’ve become a big fan of our True Beauty Collagen, similar to the Collagen 3000 tablets. It’s also strictly a collagen supplement without the added anti-inflammatories. It’s also flavorless, so it can easily be added to any liquid. It’s only one scoop a day and a nice option for someone who’s never used collagen before. I also like it for maintaining healthy and fresh hair, skin and nails. When it comes to tenants and ligaments, collagen can be beneficial in not only keeping them strong for our joints but can help these connective tissues recover from injuries. Flex HxⓇ has a specific collagen protein that is most helpful for the tendons and ligaments and is the perfect complement to the Collagen HxⓇ. While all of these bovine sourced options are collagen types, one and three. I want to also talk about type two collagen. † [00:04:44]
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[00:04:45] This is more commonly known as cartilage, and ours is sourced from chicken sternum. This is used to support the collagen within the joints. We know that over time this cartilage can start to deteriorate. Usually due to activity level and the normal aging process. Adding just one small capsule a day can help maintain the health of the joints. And doubling up can help relieve some of the joint damage. As you can see, collagen can be a complex topic. For more information on all of collagen benefits, check out my companion blog on our website invitehealth.com. You can also contact me, Allie Might at our uptown location on Second Avenue and 71st Street by phone at 2122492036 or email me at a.m.i.g.h.t@invitehealth.com. I want to thank you for tuning into the InViteⓇ Health Podcast. Remember, you can find all of our episodes for free wherever you listen to podcasts or by visiting invitehealth.com/podcasts. Please make sure you subscribe and leave us a review. You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at at InViteⓇ Health. And we will see you next time for another episode of the InViteⓇ Health Podcast. Until then, stay healthy. † [00:04:45]
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Finding The Root Cause Of Hair Loss – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 323
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When it comes to hair loss, many people start to go into panic mode when they start to see that their hair is thinning out. There are multiple reasons as to why someone can be losing hair or have thinning hair to a degree that you are just not happy with. I want to talk about some of the common causes and what you can be doing, especially when you look at different nutrients because different vitamins and minerals certainly can provide an awful lot of support for someone who is experiencing hair loss.†
Did you know that roughly 50% of men will have some degree of loss by the time they’re 50 years old? When you look at women, by the time they’re roughly 70 years old, about 40% of women experience a significant amount of hair loss. We really want to understand the different types of hair loss, the exacerbating reasons as to what brings that on and then the different ways in which you can approach your particular type of hair loss.†
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How to help the various causes of hair loss
Many people have probably heard of the different medications that people can use, including rogaine and propecia, which have been out for a very long time. We have seen many people respond quite well to those. But, if we’re not partnering that up with vitamins and minerals and addressing that, then we certainly don’t see the same outcomes, which is why vitamins and minerals really do play a key role in this.†
When looking at the different causes of hair loss, certainly we can look at the hereditary genetic factors, which is what falls into the androgenic alopecia category. That would be the male-pattern baldness that most people are familiar with. This can happen with women as well. Interestingly enough, this happens along the same pathway. It is when we are getting an over-conversion of testosterone into dihydrotestosterone. One of the natural ways to try to target that would be utilizing something such as saw palmetto, for example. We want to try to impede that pathway and that loss of testosterone that ends up creating too much dihydrotestosterone. Oftentimes, I would have people who were concerned about hair loss look at our Prostate Hx formulation, which contains a good amount of saw palmetto extract. Even though this formula is for the prostate, these nutrients are so powerful that they can be utilized for many different purposes in the body. Even with women, you may want to consider that Prostate Hx formulation because getting 450mg of that saw palmetto can do an awful lot to really yield you some good support to the hair loss itself.†
Other different factors that we know create havoc would be hormonal issues. Certainly thyroid abnormalities and issues during menopause or pregnancy can impact this. There’s a lot of hormonal control in the health of our hair. We can look at different medical causes, like autoimmune conditions that have been linked with hair loss.†
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We can look at different medications. When people are on different chemotherapy agents, hair loss is going to be the given outcome. We can also look at things like beta blockers. Someone taking a beta blocker for high blood pressure, for example, may start to lose hair over time and they never correlate it to their actual medication that they’re on.†
Oftentimes, nutritional deficiencies are commonly overlooked. We realize that essential fatty acids are really important for maintaining the health of our hair. If we have deficiencies in essential fatty acids such as omega-3s, which we know most Americans do, this can lead to additional hair loss. We can look at low levels of iron, zinc, biotin and Vitamin D. These have all been linked and correlated to hair loss.†
Tune into the full podcast episode for more details on how to combat the various sources of hair loss.
