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>Collagen is a protein no
Collagen is a protein amino acid, but it's not meat protein. We identify the two by the amino acid spread.
>collagen amino acids
>meat amino acids
Collagen amino acid foods are specifically high in glycine, proline, hydroxyproline as their primary ratio.
We want to ingest these because 36% of your body mass is made up of collagen amino acids and are the most abundant of all the amino acids in your body.
The reason why "bulking" doesn't work is because you can effectively double your entire protein intake and still not get enough collagen amino acid spread depending on what you eat.
The rest of the amino acids are pissed out since they cannot be utilized, making it a very costly and wasteful food source.
Your body cannot store them either, because muscle synthesis is based on a 24 hour cycle.
Finally conversion rate of the few meat based amino acids >>> collagen based amino acids is abysmal in all case studies, it's for bare minimal survival and primarily it's used to protect the major organs such as skin, digestive system, lungs.
All of the things necessary for you to not die every single day.
Can't breathe without lungs, can't maintain homeostasis without skin, can't digest new foods without stomach.
Finally large amounts of glycine alone are used to just make you fall asleep as glycine lowers body temperature so that the brain can function on bare minimal systems and rest.
If you have a really good macro protein spread ratio, sure a small increase to calories will probably be fine.
For the greatest majority of people, you're already collagen amino acid deficient. Even most body builders who swear they eat right are collagen amino acid deficient.
Which is why tendonitis, joint, tendon insertion injuries are so high.
The simplest way to ensure collagen amino acid spread is to actually stop increasing meat based protein intake, simply maintain. While just actually adding a serving of collagen food source.