Vegan collagen supplements
The benefits of adding collagen supplements to our diet cannot be over-emphasised. However, there is a widespread belief that people who are on a vegetarian diet cannot include collagen supplements in their diet.
This belief is based on the principle that most collagen supplements are sourced from animals. Thus, excluding people on a vegan diet from enjoying the benefits collagen has to offer. Let's find out more about vegan collagen supplements and how they can help.
Benefits of animal-sourced collagen supplements
- For skin: It reduces skin wrinkling and sagging by helping skin cells stick to one another, giving your skin the strength and elasticity needed to maintain its youthful glow.
- For hair: It promotes healthy hair by building proteins and strengthening the skin containing hair roots. It also prevents hair follicle damage and greying. Vibrant, healthy hair means your body produces enough vitamins and nutrients to ensure it operates at its peak condition.
- For nails: It helps strengthen and grow our nails by preventing brittleness. In addition, keeping nails healthy improves the appearance of our hands and feet.
- For bones: It is a protein essential for building bone mass. Thus, adding collagen supplements to your diet will strengthen your bones significantly. Bone strength is crucial because bones are integral to mobility and protect our brain, heart, and other vital organs from injury.
- For joints: It helps maintain the tissue that protects your joints, allowing your bones to move smoothly against one another. Our joints make us flexible; without them, moving would be impossible. Thus, joint maintenance ensures we avoid mobility discomfort as we age.
Unfortunately, people on plant-based diets could not enjoy these benefits since no vegan collagen supplements were available to consumers. The reason for this is that naturally occurring collagen comes from animals. Traditionally, most of the collagen found in collagen supplements is sourced from the hooves, bones, and hides of cows or fish, in the case of marine collagen.
Thus, until Health Nutrition added the new Alexia Rich products to their range, vegetarians primarily depended on foods such as tofu, black beans, pistachio nuts, peanuts, cashews and pumpkin, sunflower, and chia seeds as well as the body’s natural ability to produce collagen. However, although practical, the reliance on natural collagen production is time-sensitive. As we age, our bodies gradually make less. Additionally, collagen production drops due to excess sun exposure, smoking, alcohol, and lack of sleep and exercise.
To aid collagen production in our bodies and to lessen the effects of time on our bones, joints, skin, hair and nails, we need to include collagen supplements in our diets. Fortunately, with Alexia Rich, including collagen supplements in your diet does not have to compromise your plant-based diet.
Health Nutrition has included four new products to our range of Collagen supplements. These new additions focus on making the essential benefits of collagen available for everyone, including vegans.
What is silica?
Unlike most collagen supplements, Silica is derived from vegan-friendly natural sources. It is a mineral found in sand, rocks, the earth’s crust, and many fruits and vegetables. No animals or animal by-products are involved in producing Silica and Silica supplements. Yet, they offer the same benefits as other collagen supplements.
Silica benefits
- For skin - It oxygenates the skin, giving you a glow and increasing the transportation of nutrients and oxygen to the skin.
- For hair – It delivers essential nutrients to your hair follicles; these nutrients help strengthen your hair and prevent it from thinning.
- For nails – It feeds your nail beds with all the vital nutrients necessary for encouraging healthy and strong nails.
- For bones – It stimulates the growth of bone cells, which leads to greater flexibility, helps form new bones, and strengthens mature bones.
- For joints – It stabilises and lubricates your joints while also reducing the levels of inflammation in your joint tissues.
ALEXIA RICH SILICA
The Alexia Rich Silica supplements have shown substantial collagen production results, allowing vegans to enjoy the great benefits of adding collagen supplements to their plant-based diet. In addition, they are highly bioavailable for easy absorption and are 400% more bioavailable than other types of Silica.
THE ALEXIA RICH RANGE
1. Orgono Liquid Silica:
Silica is found throughout our bodies: in our hair, skin and nails, joints, muscles and even our skeleton. Alexia Rich Liquid Silica helps your connective tissues perform essential tasks, like providing structured communication information, transporting nutrients, and removing waste. ALEXIA RICH Liquid Silica supports and reinforces every cell in your body, from head to toe.
Alexia Rich is a premium, natural collagen-boosting liquid supplement containing Orgono Silica, a specific brand of Silica clinically proven to be the only form of Silica with almost 400% higher bioavailability than other silica supplements.
2. Beauty Capsules
Silica in the skin nourishes, regenerates, and boosts collagen content, and Silica determines collagen levels. Additionally, it acts on the connective tissue, renewing collagen and elastin fibres and improving joint collagen production. A recent study confirms that the silicon in this formula can significantly decrease the depth of wrinkles, reduce spots caused by UV light, and increase hydration.
Orgono Silica, a quartz derivative, is highly bioavailable for easy absorption. It’s 400% more bioavailable than other types of Silica.
3. Active Capsules
Silica nourishes bone and joint tissue and aids the regeneration and strengthening of articular cartilage. Also, it renews collagen and elastin fibres and improves the production of joint collagen.
Its presence is essential for repairing damaged tissues and enhancing the healing process. It helps regenerate new bone matter and maintains bone thickness and elasticity. Silica is an essential dietary supplement for active people, athletes, convalescents and older people.
Orgono silica active capsules provide four times more bioavailable silicon than other forms, permitting the optimal delivery of essential nutrients to nourish and regenerate skin. A recent clinical study showed decreased wrinkles depth and spots caused by UV light and improved hydration after use - resulting in a smoother-looking complexion with improved collagen content.
4. Smoothie Silica Powder
Alexia Rich Orgono smoothie silica powder is designed to easily add to your morning smoothie to give you the energy boost you may need and to aid your body in staying at optimum health & fight off bacteria & viruses. Silica also assists your body in eliminating heavy metals. Additionally, it boosts the body’s collagen & elastin production and strengthens hair and nails, promoting faster growth.
Alexia Rich Orgono Silica Powder is the perfect addition to your morning smoothie, giving you a natural boost of energy and helping protect your body against bacteria & viruses.
With all these benefits and the varying options of supplements, none of us has a reason not to add collagen supplements to our food, regardless of our dietary preferences. Including Alexia Rich Silica products in our range of collagen supplements dismisses the notion that people who follow a vegan diet cannot use collagen.
