Anyway, I've got over it already.
Yesterday is the easiest day. Tomorrow will be the hardest.
I've been having some sort of a creative drought recently. I just can't seem to shoot a compelling image. I hope it is just some passing phase. Its not that I have lost my passion for photography, its just that I can't seem to do anything right with a camera these days. Maybe I have been trying too hard.
Had some really, really weird dreams recently.
Anyway, I was one the MRT when I overheard two women talking about the merits of collagen. About how it made her skin smooth and tight et cetera. Utter bullshit I say. It is pure and shameless commercialism that has driven society into such a downward trend. And like a disease, such "lies" are spread via word of mouth. This disease eventually will infect all of mankind minus those who knew better.
Any partially competent biology student will tell you that a collagen molecule is a protein. It is made up of three left handed helices supported by numerous hydrogen bonds. As such, once collagen is ingested, hydrochloric acid in the stomach is going to reduce a molecule of collagen into mere amino acids. It does not remain as a collagen molecule for "absorption" into the body.
An article written by Times Online confirms what I have been saying for months.
...British Skin Foundation say they’ve seen no evidence that eating collagen will benefit your skin in any way. “Certain products applied to the skin that stimulate collagen production may have the desired effect, but eating it is unlikely to make a difference.”
Using a collagen sheet for surgical reasons is perfectly understandable, but ingesting it? They would be much better off spending that kind of money on some good steaks, since it all works down to amino acids.
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