Never Mind the Weather, a Bovine Collagen Drink Could Turn Your Mood to Sunshine

Bovine collagen’s unique amino acid make-up could be just what your sunny mood and gut’s been waiting for. 

It’s summer (tell it to the weather), when hot and hearty cups of collagen rich bone broth slide off the menu. The sun - when it’s out - helps lift our mood, but our gut health and mood still rely on the amino acids bovine collagen contains to keep them ship shape. 

It only takes a small rise in degrees before we’re not that hungry. While our appetites can be happy with lighter bites come August, we don’t want to risk skimping on amino acids to keep our guts happy and our gut brain axis on a friendly footing. Luckily, WillPowders have a handy amino acid addition that goes to work as you quench your thirst: Bovine Collagen Peptides. 

Roll up glycine, proline and hydroxyproline. We put these amino acid marines through their paces for your mood, repair and recovery. You just need to pop them in your tipple, kick back and enjoy the benefits. 

One: Glycine

Typical make up: 33-35% of your collagen goodness - you won’t find that proportion in any other protein.

Potential capabilities: 

• Enhances mood and cognitive performance after mild sleep deprivation - glycine doesn’t even mind what deprived you of sleep - your partner’s snoring, summer temperatures too hot to sleep, the cat coughing up a fur ball … What some trials have evidenced is that glycine could be a factor in creating antidepressant effects in healthy participants. It's early days for scientists, but there’s excitement that being able to think more clearly when you’re tired could be partly attributable to glycine.
• Sleep boosting - not only will glycine give you a boost if you struggled with sleep the night before but this wonder amino acid also helps to lower your body temperature for better sleep the next night - put that in your drink and, er, drink it! That hot holiday has nothing on you!
• A critical building block of glutathione, the body’s master antioxidant - so you could be aiding your body’s repair. 

Special mention: Could glycine contribute to an effective post workout recovery drink? Forget those sugar laden ‘sports’ recovery drinks  - take an ElectroTide and stir through a scoop - big or little end - up to you - of collagen and you’re giving your body that key repair amino acid. You can’t say that for any of those sugar laden iso-maxo-boyo drinks the menfolk might favour! Keep working on bringing the boys round to drinking collagen, for the greater good of the tribe. 

Typical make up: 10-13% of bovine collagen

Potential capabilities: 

• May support gut barrier stability and enhance recovery in inflammatory gut conditions. It’s early days for scientists to pin this down exactly, but hydroxyproline’s an amino acid that’s part of the army you need for gut integrity. 
• Makes a little marriage made in heaven with proline to form pro-hyp which is fabulously more bioavailable than either proline or hydroxyproline alone. Pro-hyp helps hyaluronic synthesis - the body’s natural wound and skin repair (it also helps with oral and gut tissues - marvellous!).

Special mention: Does drinking collagen work to bring me benefits? Bioavailability is key. Hydrolysed collagen peptides get into your system and are detectable in plasma. You don’t just need hydroxyproline, you need it in a form that your body can utilise so you can benefit from those downstream effects of better gut, joints and skin. Best recovery drink for runners, riders and general on the go all the time wranglers? A collagen drink in which the amino acids are actually bioavailable. Pro-hyp can be in your blood stream and so helping repair within 30 minutes and remain there for two hours. We’re team hydrolysed peptides so we know they’re entering our system - join us!

Bovine collagen peptides are gut repair. Sugar and sucralose are gut distress. Other producers put sugars or sucralose in their collagen powders. Is sugar systemically bad for you and your gut? Yes - it’s an inflammation and insulin enemy. And, you guessed it, it’s bad for your gut microbiome. Is sucralose bad for your gut? Yes - your gut won’t like it, can’t digest it and sucralose is likely to bloat you. 

The WillPowders Way: We swerve sugar and sucralose, full stop, not just in our collagen. All this means that you can swirl, stir and swizzle our Hydrolysed Bovine Collagen Peptides through whatever drink you like.

And, don’t forget, winter is coming and, like a woman for all seasons, we’ve got warming collagen drinks for that too! In the meantime, we’ll catch you round the watering hole, Mixer, Scoop and a Family Bag of Bovine Collagen in hand.