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Moisture retention & elasticity

2017-04-05

 

One company from Japanese supplier Nitta Gelatin announced the results of research conducted one the effects of collagen peptide on skin health. The results, which were published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, were promising, said Naoki Inoue, staff scientist with Nitta.
The two major contributors to aging are oxidation and glycation, in the skin and all over the body. And since collagen peptides are know to signal cells, they aid in increasing metabolism. The result of the study we conducted are very significant as ingestion of the two peptides we ’re using collagen peptide , proline-hydroxyproline(PO) and hydroxyproline-glycine (OG) showed a major difference in skin moisture retention and elasticity, thus demonstrating a reduction of wrinks..’ Inoue said.