You guys know why this aggravates me so much? Every time I walk into Whole Foods, I see this nicely labeled plastic bottle with complete bullshit marketing, collagen peptide, collagen protein powder, collagen protein bars. I'm losing my mind. Are these people marketing geniuses? Because they're putting processed agrochemical refined powder waste in a plastic tub and charging $40 for it and people are eating it off. This is way beyond the corn-avore's-shilling collagen. This is big scale in every single supermarket. And this is obviously special, interest-funded corporations taking this low-quality waste and trying to sell it as a health product. You know, they've created these fake ideas about collagen powder and to a lesser extent glycine to sell highly processed phylon-beef powders. Notice how none of these are grass-fed or organic. Even if glycine and collagen are beneficial, which we will debate shortly, you shouldn't have to take these synthetic powders as there are natural high-quality alternatives. Why take something that is processed with solvents, chemicals, poison when you can consume a food product? You know, it's one thing if you couldn't get collagen or glycine from food, but we can. The reason you supplement vitamin D3 is because it's unrealistic, not everyone can tan outside for five hours a day. People work 9 to 5 jobs. You know, magnesium is from soil depletion. We need to supplement magnesium because you can't get it from a food. You know, vitamin K2 could be lack of access to fermented foods or gut problems. But consuming glycine or collagen is absurd. It's in like every single food there is. Here is a flow process for collagen. All material, washing, assimilation, washing, extraction, filtration, hydrolyze, verprodyease, decolor filtration, sterilization, and drying. And this is a flow chart for glycine. Monocloroacetic acid, ammonia acolycar, urotropine, amonation, crystallize out, centrifugation, tech grade glycine, drying in vacuum, centrifugation, recrystallize, raw glycine, tech grade glycine, deionized water, activated carbon, filtration, filter residue, filtrate, leave, cooling, drying in vacuum. Back to that point earlier. Notice how these are never labeled organic or grass fed. You can't have organic collagen because of the crappy animal wakes that are boiling down. Plus, those synthetic chemicals, acids, and solvents will never be grass fed, organic, or natural. How do you go from bovine skin and animal beef tissue to a white powder? How much do you have to process it? That is an absurd difference. It's one thing to go from a magnesium stone in nature to some magnesium powder or to extract some vitamin D from sheep wool. But these processes are so complicated, is there even any collagen or glycine left? Do they even test that final product? There are many natural foods that contain collagen and glycine, bone broth being a popular one. But there were many indigenous groups in perfect health, subsisting off of only fish. And I would argue that bone broth is more of a modern preparation due to its vessel requirement. No natural human diet contains the glycine ratios, recommended by these experts that are selling you the products. Plus, once you look into the biochemistry of what's happening, collagen and glycine are not needed in these supplemental excess forms. First off, if your gold by consuming collagen is to increase the collagen in your skin, that's not how it works. Your body requires certain vitamins and amino acids to synthesize that tissue. Collagen only provides the amino acids. You don't see people eating bacon or pork rinds for their skin health, but that's what collagen powder is akin to. The substance in this collagen that people are allegedly benefiting from is the amino acid hydroxylprolene. Thing is, the body recycles amino acids from old cells on a daily basis at about 93% effectiveness. The actual nutrients needed for optimal skin health are amino acids, which are in all animal foods, vitamin C, as well as iron. This activates all of the required enzymes and cofactors needed, but you still need to reduce inflammation in the diet to optimize antioxidant pathways. Otherwise, your body won't be able to synthesize collagen as much as it can. Liver is the perfect food for this. It's pretty safe to say I have the best skin out of all the cornabors, and I've never used collagen. On the topic of glycine, the argument for using it is that glycine will lower methionine and high methionine is associated with shorter lifespan because it increases homoacistine and homoacistine can cause oxidative stress. But the main nutrients needed to process methionine are vitamin B12 and vitamin B9. Glycine only plays a small role, so why are we focusing on glycine as opposed to these other vitamins? Because you can't make a vitamin B12 or vitamin B9 supplement from fetalophewaste. In this methylation cycle, in order to metabolize homoacistine, we require vitamin B12, vitamin B9, and vitamin B6. It's more likely your diet is going to be lacking in these vitamins than glycine because glycine isn't even needed. In the folate cycle, vitamin B6 actually converts the amino acid serine into glycine, and this study shows that serine is about 20% more effective than glycine in methionine production. That means that consuming a natural food, which contains both serine and glycine, as well as those B vitamins, is exactly what we want. Nothing here indicates that more glycine is beneficial. To emphasize that point, the study this idea originated from was on rats who were fed isolated methionine, then when they were given glycine, their lifespan improved. But all you're doing by giving them glycine is replicating the natural amino acid ratio of animal foods that they should have been eating in the first place as opposed to isolated methionine. In the context of a carnivore diet where serine and glycine intake is high, I would argue that the better way to optimize these pathways for collagen synthesis is through increased B vitamin intake. You know it's really funny? Carnivores are always fear-mongering about oxalates. Oxalates are going to destroy you. You're just detoxing oxalates. Anything wrong with you is oxalate detox. But did you know that consuming collagen increases oxalates in the body? Hydroxyproline ingestion and urinary oxalate and glycolate excretion. Our results also revealed that the kidney absorbs significant quantities of hydroxylproline and glycolate, and their metabolism to oxalate in this tissue warrants further consideration, even for glycine on its own. Different effects of oral glycine and methionine on urinary lithogenic substances. Oxalates can cause a significant increase of urinary oxalate above baseline without change in calcium. The science shows that we don't need these specific amino acids in these artificial amounts, particularly glycine and hydroxylproline. Our ancestral dietary habits indicate that they were not making bone broth or sprinkling glycine powder on their steaks. The best foods for glycine are skin on. So poultry, wilds caught fish, even shellfish or great options. We have some quails on Frankie's orange meat. You can pick up some skin on salmon and local fish market, suck down and doesn't oysters on a fry at night at a restaurant. Those are all excellent ways to make sure you're getting high amounts of bile available amino acids with the corresponding V vitamins needed for metabolic pathways. I can understand how easily people fall into these marketing traps, and it's despicable when you realize that these people are literally selling, you feed a lot of beef waste. Seriously, these companies will poison you just to make $10, an insignificant amount of money. I don't know if these people are still pushing glycine. I think they moved on to hunting or something else now. But they're in for root awakening when they realize I wasn't eating honey. I'm having too much fun with this. So thank you guys for joining me today. Hopefully this saves you guys a few dollars and you don't buy any of this crap. If you did, reach out to me with receipt and I'll give you a discount on Frankie's orange meat or something. Because it's discouraging that these people take advantage of their marketing powers. 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