COLLAGEN SCIENCE & GLYCATION

Your Body Is Literally Rusting and Caramelising From the Inside.

Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body — constituting 30% of total protein mass and forming the structural scaffold of skin, joints, arteries, gut lining, bones, tendons, and the cornea. Its synthesis requires vitamin C, copper, zinc, proline, and glycine in precise combination; its degradation is accelerated by UV radiation, chronically elevated cortisol, seed oil oxidation products, and — most devastatingly — glycation. Glycation is the non-enzymatic bonding of sugar molecules to proteins and fats, forming Advanced Glycation End-products (AGEs) that cross-link collagen fibres, stiffen arteries, cloud the lens of the eye, wrinkle the skin, and impair neural function. Every gram of sugar consumed above cellular energy needs accelerates this irreversible biological ageing process in ways that no skincare product can undo.