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The Longevity Connection: The Role of Collagen and Healthy Aging · Wellness Wednesday Activation Podcast

• 0:02
  Jami: Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Wellness Wednesday.
• 0:06
  Jami: My name is Jamie Williams, and I'm always honored to be here being part of the conversation.
• 0:10
  Jami: This platform has given us a chance to reach people honestly across the world where we can bring information, bring education, because our goal is to help empower people when it comes to their health, that they feel knowledgeable, that they have the resources that they need to make informed decisions when it comes to your health.
• 0:26
  Jami: So that's what this platform is all about.
• 0:28
  Jami: Quickly about me, I'm a busy mom of four.
• 0:31
  Jami: I formerly worked in cardiac rehab as an exercise specialist.
• 0:34
  Jami: I'm a high school basketball coach.
• 0:36
  Jami: And but like I said, my most important job is a mom of four.
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  Jami: And this has given me such a different perspective in life, learning more about how I can take control and activating my body and just learning the modalities and different tools that are available to us tonight.
• 0:52
  Jami: And I'm excited for this beautiful guest that I have to come share this information with us.
• 0:57
  Jami: Leslie is a physician's assistant who has worked in the hospital setting.
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  Jami: She's worked in the outpatient setting, just has a wealth of knowledge and experience.
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  Jami: And especially when it comes to the topic of collagen.
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  Jami: And you're going to learn all about that tonight and the connection that it has to longevity.
• 1:13
  Jami: But first, I want to introduce Leslie and let her have a chance to share her story about how you even found yourself into the healthcare space and even into this company life vantage.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, hey guys.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for taking time out to jump on tonight with me.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm coming live here from Anna Maria Island.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: We took a few days, and that's one of the beautiful things about this business, right?
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: Can work it from anywhere, even a bathroom in Anna Maria Island.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I got into healthcare, I've been practicing for 23 years.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: I think even when I was in second grade, I knew that I wanted to work in the healthcare space.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: It kind of changed over the years.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: When I graduated college, my first job was in cardiology, and I worked in cardiology for seven years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Worked with some of the greatest physicians you can imagine.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was in and around the Duke University area, so I had a lot of like influence there.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: Got into Life Vintage.
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  SPEAKER_01: Funny story, I actually saw the ABC video two years before I joined.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I shared it with someone else who was looking at an MLM company.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I told her, I said, I think this would be a good start for you and a good place to land.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was involved in a different company at the time and wasn't in a position where I wanted to leave, but never forgot about Life Vintage.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: And as you know, life would have it, it circled back around and kind of kind of found me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had kind of forgotten about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the rest is kind of history with my wellness background.
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  SPEAKER_01: It just made sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: So 2000, I got in in 2021, right in the middle of the pandemic.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was pretty fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good times.
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  Jami: I think you can tell she has a heart to serve people, and this is a great platform for her to continue to educate and share.
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  Jami: So thank you for being our guest tonight.
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  Jami: You guys are going to learn a lot.
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  Jami: I am going to dive right into this topic because it's something that I've been fascinated with for the last few years, honestly, because I feel like more people are becoming more aware, more informed, more educated about the role that different things play in your health.
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  Jami: And when it comes to the conversation of collagen, most people think of collagen as a vanity product, as hair, skin, and nails.
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  Jami: And while that's great, we are learning so much more about its critical role in our overall health.
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  Jami: So in the last few years, I've learned more about its role in all tissues when it comes to heart, gut lining, all of your organs, your bones, your muscles, and especially when it comes to brain health issues.
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  Jami: That's what really fascinated me.
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  Jami: So Leslie's gonna help us understand a lot more about what collagen is and the role that it actually plays in our body.
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  Jami: So Leslie, let's just start there.
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  Jami: What is it and what role does it play in our health?
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  SPEAKER_01: So collagen is the most abundant protein in your body.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it acts as the building blocks, not just for your skin, your bones, your muscles, your ligaments, your tendons, you know, all throughout your body, you're using collagen.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's really the glue that holds your body together.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you're right, it is it it plays a role in so many different levels and so many organ systems that most people do think of it.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: I I also worked in the aesthetics world.
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  SPEAKER_01: So for me, you know, it was it was about skin deep because everyone wants to look more youthful.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're all chasing that, I think, to some extent.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, so when I started learning that it does more than just work skin deep, you know, it it became even more interesting to look into it.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: And so many people are oh there you go.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: So many people are looking for a good collagen these days, and there's there really is a lot of not so great collagens out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the other interesting thing I find is that a lot of men are starting to look into collagen now because we know, you know, what it does for the body.
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  SPEAKER_01: So as far as you know, it it works in other areas, you know, one of the big things I think about, and one of the reasons that I've kind of focused on this more recently is because post-COVID, it seems like that everybody gets sick more easily.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of the areas that it works on is the endothelial lining in your gut.
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  SPEAKER_01: People are having issues with mast cell activation where they just get, you know, they get sick and they just can't get better, and they they're in this inflammatory state.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of that has to do with you not only the sinus area, but the gut area as well.
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  SPEAKER_02: So very, very lots of areas.
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  Jami: I think you froze for just a little bit.
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  Jami: I don't know, maybe it was my end, but I love that we are starting to understand that it plays a role in so many different areas, especially in the gut lining.
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  Jami: A lot of people are becoming more aware of the importance of gut health, too.
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  Jami: So to understand the majority of your immune system is housed in your gut.
• 6:04
  Jami: So that's something that you really want to protect.
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  Jami: So, really laying the foundation that it's a really important protein in our body, and it's really what gives us structure and the glue that holds us together.
• 6:14
  Jami: Most of us are here because we want to learn how to optimize our health.
• 6:19
  Jami: We're we want to know what tools that we can use and the steps we can take to really add years to our life and add quality years to our life is what we want.
• 6:29
  Jami: That's why we're talking about longevity.
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  Jami: But I want to also help people understand what causes your collagen to actually break down.
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  Jami: Why do we lose it?
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  Jami: Because I know when I rolled out of bed by the time I was about 25 and stepped down on the floor, my Achilles were tight, my knees might hurt, I'm starting to see it in my face.
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  Jami: You know, how do we help slow that down or what causes it to break down?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's funny how that happens, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: It becomes faster than you think.
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  SPEAKER_01: So your collagen is produced by fibroblasts.
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  SPEAKER_01: So fibroblasts are turned on until you're about 20 years old, and then you quit laying down new collagen in your 20s, which to me is horrifying.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, your 20s is, I mean, you're considered your prime, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: In your 20s, and you quit laying down new collagen.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you're basically going backwards before you even get started, which I'm like, you know, I feel like everything's working against us.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I have a couple statistics here that I want to read off to you guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: After age 18, you lose 1% of collagen per year.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then at age 30, we start to notice, you know, visible signs of aging.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we especially crows' feet, usually at that age is when we first start noticing that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then there's this wonderful thing that women go through called menopause.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have a decrease in skin thickness.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you lose plumpness, you lose bounce, and that loss of collagen by 1.13% per year once you hit menopause.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then after age 60, elasticity is decreased by 55% each year, which is why you see so many women being proactive and doing Botox or even doing facelifts in their 50s, because you you really lose that that collagen, which I think is it's wild to me.
• 8:24
  Jami: I love that you said wonderful menopause.
• 8:26
  Jami: I know.
• 8:27
  Jami: Great, great play on words there.
• 8:29
  Jami: I'm sure people that have gone through it would say otherwise, right?
• 8:31
  Jami: I know the joke there.
• 8:33
  Jami: You guys, this is what I'm excited to explain when we talk about collagen, how to know a good one from all the noise that's in the market.
• 8:41
  Jami: Collagen is incredibly important for people that want to maintain their health, their visible, you know, aesthetics.
• 8:49
  Jami: They we want to look youthful, we want to feel better, like lubricate our joints, lubricate our muscles.
• 8:55
  Jami: But really, this is where it gets confusing because people don't know where to look.
• 9:00
  Jami: Can you tell us what is the collagen that you love?
• 9:03
  Jami: Because I know you said in the field that you've been in, you've seen all of them.
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  Jami: Why does this one stand out?
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  Jami: What about it makes it different?
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  SPEAKER_01: So this one stood out because there's no zero, no other collagen on the market that turns your fiberblast on to start making collagen again.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'll give you an example.
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  SPEAKER_01: If because I've worked in the aesthetics world, there's a filler that they just remarketed about two to three years ago called Sculptra.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're injecting it under the skin to stimulate collagen.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know how much one bile of sculptra is?
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  SPEAKER_01: $900 for one bile.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you need one for each side, okay?
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  SPEAKER_01: And that collagen buildup is over a six-month to two-year period.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's not rapid either.
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  SPEAKER_01: And women are dishing out money for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you think that our collagen is too expensive, think again.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: People are spending$1,800 a pop on sculpture.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: So what are you looking for?
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: You want it to be liquid.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: You want it to be liquid, you want it to be marine.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to make sure that it's activating the fibroblast, which so far I've I look at them all.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've not found another one that turns those fibroblasts back on and makes collagen again.
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  SPEAKER_01: You also want it to be easily digestible so that the body can absorb it.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's the problem with powdered collagens.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: When you put those in whatever you're going to dissolve them in, the molecule is too big.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your body can't absorb it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you can drink it all day long, but you're not going to see the benefits from it because the body can't take it in.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have the hardware or the chemistry in order to take that in.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's what it is.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's hydrolyzed.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: So it's just chopped down into tiny little pieces and it's it's easily absorbed so that it can do what it says that it's going to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: The other thing about true science liquid collagen tastes great.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's really, really yummy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And something I think we don't talk about enough is that the fact that it comes in a glass bottle, guys, though, it costs corporate a lot to send those bottles out, ship them out.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: But it's important.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the reason that it's important if you're studying microplastics at all, if that bottle was like a one, a multi-serving bottle, or if it was in a plastic bottle, when they pour that collagen into the bottle, it is heat treated and then it is sealed.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: So if you put it in plastic, it's going to leach into the collagen, it's going to taint it.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: The reason that the one-serving bottles are so important, as soon as you crack that cap and open it, it starts to oxidize.
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  SPEAKER_01: We all know what oxidative stress is, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's instantly breaking down.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you don't want a multi-dose bottle to be where you're consuming your collagen from because once you crack that bottle, it is breaking down and oxidizing, and you're not going to get the full benefits from it.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: So they're very particular.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: And this is why we refuse to compromise on the packaging or the way we make it or any of the other things, because it matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's the best collagen on the market for a reason.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's what you're looking for.
• 12:13
  Jami: You nailed it.
• 12:14
  Jami: I'm just going to show you.
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  Jami: So this True Science Liquid Collagen is the single serving.
• 12:18
  Jami: And I love that you spoke to quality control, why it matters.
• 12:22
  Jami: I've tried different collagens over the course of the years, and this one made a big difference for me in a relatively short amount of time.
• 12:30
  Jami: And it's honestly because it works differently.
• 12:32
  Jami: So when I started to learn more about this, you've probably heard you heard Leslie say the word activation, and I've said it to activating my body, but maybe there's some of you here that don't really know what that means.
• 12:42
  Jami: When we look at these products, we use these tools, these products to activate or turn on systems that protect our health.
• 12:51
  Jami: Systems that are already innately put in there, but sometimes they need the boost to function and perform like they were designed to do.
• 12:58
  Jami: Over time, we have what's called oxidative stress.
• 13:01
  Jami: We have overload inside of our body that's limiting the way that it can function.
• 13:06
  Jami: And when we can empower our body through the use of these products, it flips switches that turns our systems back on to help our body make more of what it needs to create better health.
• 13:19
  Jami: So when she's talking about activated collagen, this is literally turning on the genes that are associated with your natural collagen production and even slowing down the genes that degrade it.
• 13:30
  Jami: So that's kind of a transition, but I want to help people understand like activation is absolutely a differentiator.
• 13:36
  Jami: When you're looking at products in the health space, it's oftentimes confusing.
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  Jami: And what you need to know is what is the superior approach.
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  Jami: And it's truly empowering your own body to create what it needs because that's personal optimization, in my opinion.
• 13:51
  Jami: But this is where I want the science to come into play because there's so much validation, and that's why we have professionals like Leslie here to help explain it.
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  Jami: There was recently a study that came out on this product, and she's going to break it down so you can understand why it's important and why we all should be paying attention and why we should be using this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, first of all, this is the study.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: I have it right here.
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  SPEAKER_01: You might not be able to see it because it's I'm blurred out.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you can get that on the website under Collagen.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: You can go and print it out.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: I might have to turn off this blur from the back of my screen so you guys can see.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_02: Let me wait just a minute.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_02: Oh I forget how to do it.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: I know, I forget how to do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, anyways.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's get to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this study what was it?
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: Did somebody say something?
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'll get in.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the point of this study was what they did was they wanted to see if combining NRF2 with collagen would give you synergy, if they both worked better together than separately, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it was a RNA study, and they looked at over 13,000 gene sequences.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they wanted to see how so what they did was they looked at NRF2, they looked at collagen, and then they looked at them paired together.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that was the whole basis of the study.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's two terms I want to explain to you all.
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  SPEAKER_01: One is cytokines.
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  SPEAKER_01: So cytokines are small proteins that are chemical messengers to your immune system, which regulate inflammation.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: Is everybody with me there?
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: Shake your head, yes, if you're you're with me.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: They're immune messengers.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: So we all know that ever since COVID, I know that ever since COVID, I'm looking for everything that I can get my hands on to boost my immunity.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's really, really important, okay?
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  SPEAKER_01: The other thing that I want you to understand is interleukins.
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  SPEAKER_01: Interleukins regulate the immune response in the body and also manage inflammation and cell growth.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, with those two things, cytokines and interleukins, I want to connect a few dots, okay?
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: So you have to think about disease processes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like as a clinician, I'm like, okay, this is great.
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  SPEAKER_01: We turn on fibroblasts, they're gonna look beautiful, but what is it gonna do for the body?
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like, how is this going to help my patients?
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: Why, why do I want to recommend it?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so interleukin 6 is specific for infection, autoimmune diseases, obesity, and severe inflammation.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: That's what it's gonna target.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's another one in this study called Interleukin 1B.
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  SPEAKER_01: It targets fever syndromes and inflammation as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when you look at the study, if you go to, I forget which page it is, but there's a there's a chart here that has like a bar graph on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Interleukin 6, remember, we're mediating the immune response and managing inflammation with two, the two products together, NRF2 and collagen, was decreased by 88%.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: We're inhibiting the immune, we're we're boosting our immune response and managing inflammation.
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  SPEAKER_01: That interleukin 1B, which also works on the fevers syndromes and the inflammation, was decreased by 97%.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: Guys, this is statistically significant.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: This is crazy trained.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, for me, I'm like, okay, so if I have somebody who has any type of disease process that includes an inflammatory process, and I'll try to be as compliant here as I can, I'm really trying.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: You wanna you wanna recommend this.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: If you have anybody who has something that creates inflammation, and what I'm gonna say out loud, because we see a lot of it since COVID, is any autoimmune disease.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: If you have somebody who has an autoimmune disease, you need to be putting somebody, you need to be recommending this and talking to somebody.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: So I still wish I could show this.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: I know you all are not gonna be able to see this.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: How do I do this?
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: I've got to fix this.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: How do I fix this?
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: Hold on.
• 18:15
  Jami: On your video button, you can hit it.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: Learn my background.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: Take it off.
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  Jami: Yep.
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  Jami: Can you see?
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  Jami: Can you see that?
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  Jami: There you go.
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  Jami: Yep.
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  Jami: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: This is this is I drew this out.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: So I am so not digitally crazy.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: I just I just want you all to see this.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is SOD.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: This is superoxide dismutase.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: This is catalase.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: This is glutathione.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: These are your three major antioxidants in the body.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: SOD is the king, then we've got catalase, and then we've got glutathione.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: These two products hit all three levels, okay?
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: So you're boosting those those antioxidants by taking this.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: How what do you get?
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  SPEAKER_01: SOD, you get a 27% boost, 2700%.
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  SPEAKER_01: Catalase, 202%, and glutathione, you're gonna get 300% boost.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, why does this matter?
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: Because the higher you go on this, as you work your way up to SOD, you're gonna go complete your defense system.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: Your protection, your immune protection is going to increase.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is the study that you have your hands on.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: I know it it's kind of complicated and it's it's I kind of threw a lot at you guys, but this is why we geek out because these are the things that I deal with in real time on a daily basis.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: And when I see our company putting out this kind of a study, I'm like, uh kind of like Michelle Poe.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just like, they just don't know, they just don't know.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: I just gotta tell everybody I gotta go fast, I gotta go faster.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: More people need to know.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta share this with everybody because everybody needs it.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I know sometimes it's hard to convince people that they need it because they can go by XYZ over the counter and they can take the powdered collagen and think they're getting benefit, but they're not.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: And it's your job to show them why.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, this is the part where we geek out.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: And if anybody has any questions, I'm pretty much done, Jamie.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: We're under 30 minutes.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Look at me go.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: I talk fast.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: But that was the things I really wanted to pull out of the study that I think you can understand and that you will just like make you get excited about collagen again.
• 20:30
  Jami: I think it's important for people to walk away knowing like the role obviously that collagen plays, that it's far more than vanity.
• 20:36
  Jami: While most collagens that people can get their hands on, that is all that it can impact.
• 20:41
  Jami: But with activated collagen, it's systemically protecting every organ, every system.
• 20:48
  Jami: Because what we want people to know is that in order to have a healthy life and to have healthy longevity, you have to have healthy functioning systems.
• 20:56
  Jami: So what I I'm just gonna throw this out here too.
• 20:59
  Jami: So there might be people here, maybe we're aging, maybe we have really active kids.
• 21:04
  Jami: I know sports is it's a really busy sports time right now, and I'm a former college athlete.
• 21:09
  Jami: I wish that I would have understood that there are tools out there to help reduce cellular stress with protonum and RF2, but also to repair tissues so that recovery was faster.
• 21:23
  Jami: So, what would you say when it comes to somebody looking for optimal performance?
• 21:26
  Jami: Like, why is why would protonum and why would collagen be something that should be a staple in their health routine?
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: Well, just recovery in and of itself.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's gonna, you know, anytime you can reduce oxidative stress, and remember NRF2, we're back to yellow, right?
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: NRF2 reduces oxidative stress by 40% in 30 days and 70% in 90 days.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all, that's a lot.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: That is a lot.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: So when you can increase recovery, if you have any kind of injury, you know, whatever it is, you're gonna you shorten that time and you're gonna, you're gonna.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know, limit the amount of prescription meds that you need.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: You're going to maximize your PT visits, you know, all of it.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: It just all, it's, it's, it stacks.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's all cumulative.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: So, and then, you know, you're turning your fibroblasts on to make collagen again.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: So, connective tissue and ligaments, all of that is going to heal a lot, lot faster.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, and that's usually what people want.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: They want to get from A to B the fastest way they possibly can, especially when you're talking about, you know, high school and collegiate sports.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: It might be the difference between a assigned deal with a college or not.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it could be life-changing, you know?
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: So anyone that's in sports.
• 22:39
  Jami: Yes, and let people get back sooner because it's speeding recovery.
• 22:44
  Jami: And I feel like when you have collagen on board, you're supplying the body with what it needs to rebuild.
• 22:50
  Jami: That's really important.
• 22:51
  Jami: And since I have you here and I know that you are so well versed in understanding collagen and studies, I would love for you to help people talk a little bit more on what the role is in collagen and brain health, because we're learning a whole lot more about neurodegenerative diseases and the role that collagen plays.
• 23:11
  Jami: And I know we're we're being completely compliant, but just what is the connection between collagen?
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: Memory.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: About as compliant as I could get.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: Memory and just, you know, the the big thing is that yeah, you don't want to break down any of the brain tissue, keeping nerves connecting and synapses working together like they should.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm trying so hard to be compliant.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: This is difficult.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: You all hurt, you're killing me here.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: So that that's that's the main thing.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, just cognition in general.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, even when it comes down to fine-tuning, one of the things you guys don't know about me is I worked in a nursing home for seven years and through COVID.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: So I kind of had had a front row seat to what that looks like.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, even going back to bone and joint, do you know that when people fall and break a hip, a lot of times they don't ever get out of nursing home or survive from that?
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, it it matters so, so much for the elderly to maintain function at peak performance and cognition, all of that, because it really boils down to them maintaining their independence.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: The difference between living in a nursing home and being able to live at home on your own.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I say this all the time.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't, I wasn't able to have children of my own, but one of the things that is important to me is that it's not how long you live, but it's how you live, right?
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone wants to die with dignity, and it's not about the quantity of life, but it's about the quality of life.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: And I tell my patients all the time, everybody wants to live at home on their own, independently, feed their own face, clothe themselves, and wipe their own tail.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: If you're able to do that and die in that way, it's it's life-changing because when you see someone have to depend on other people for their quality of life, it's tough.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's tough mentally on those patients.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: So it matters in in all respects.
• 25:10
  Jami: Absolutely.
• 25:11
  Jami: I think you brought to light a lot of great talking points.
• 25:14
  Jami: And I hope that people walk away having a better understanding of really why collagen is beyond vanity, that it's really about adding the quality and longevity to your life because it's repairing and restoring tissues and it's helping to create healthier systems.
• 25:29
  Jami: So, Leslie, thank you so much for being here.
• 25:31
  Jami: If you guys have questions, you can absolutely get back to the person that invited you here.
• 25:35
  Jami: We do these every Wednesday.
• 25:37
  Jami: So please make sure that you join us same time, same Zoom.
• 25:41
  Jami: And if you have questions again, get back with you can reach out to myself, reach out to Leslie, but definitely get back with the person that invited you.
• 25:48
  Jami: Thank you for being part of this conversation, Leslie.
• 25:51
  Jami: Thank you for bringing your expertise.
• 25:53
  Jami: And I hope that we have you back soon.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: Great seeing you guys tonight.
• 26:00
  Jami: And get back to your vacation.