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Thx tamarie,

I just checked the link u gave me abt collagen The article says that while on hydralize collagen u can't take protein powder . Which for me would be a concern as if I'm going to start BO which is going to be shipped to me any day now n I need to take protein powder with that which means I can't take collagen with that

Lilylittle, I understand your concern, but the good news to this is that it is a little more complicated than just not taking it with protein powder altogether. I think that website was offering a 60-day collagen recommendation program, to function kind of like a cleanse in the sense that they do not want you taking any other proteins, so to let the collagen perform entirely on its own for a limited period of time (and please note that anything meant to do within a limited period of time, is never a healthy regimen to keep ALL the time.... hence why it is only for the 60 days! Very comparable to cleanses, which are usually not a good idea to continue for every day throughout the year). The reason they are recommending this program is based off of the fact that the body can only absorb a certain amount of protein within a certain period of time, and the rest will go to waste, literally. Since collagen is a form of protein, the body will have to get rid of some of the protein if you overload (be it of collagen protein or other protein powders such as whey, soy, casein, rice, egg, etc. etc.). This would happen even if you took too much collagen protein at a time (which is kind of hard to do, btw, since for example I am taking a relatively generous dose of hydrolyzed collagen of 3,000mg, which is only 3 grams. Your body can absorb at least 20 grams of protein every two hours). So the idea of taking only collagen protein during these 60 days was in hopes that you would not risk having a situation in which your body kept the "other" protein while tossing away the collagen protein.

So, what you can learn from this is don't take it ALONGSIDE your protein drink, or any protein for that matter. Take it maybe two hours before eating protein, or two hours after eating protein. Ok? Here is a website that says how to take collagen (on an empty stomach, which is two hours after the last time you eat anything, and a half hour to an hour before you eat anything--but please note that this website is tailored for those who are taking collagen for therapeutic purposes, which is why they take it in larger doses): http://www.livestrong.com/article/391731-how-to-take-collagen-supplements/. And here is a website that confirms the need to have other sources of protein (which is why it would never be healthy to stay on a diet of just collagen protein all the time): http://jonathannatural2.hubpages.com/hub/Dozen-FAQ-about-about-Hydrolyzed-Collagen-Supplementation (check down to the 9th question and answer). It is ok today take them within the same day and in the same diet, in fact it is very good to have a healthy balance of different protein sources, but what is meant by not taking them together is: literally not putting them into your stomach to digest at the same time. This rule goes for taking your multiple protein powder drinks as well. Make sure to take them at least two hours apart from each other, or some of the protein will not be used because of the rate at which your digestive system processes it. Depending on how much protein you plan to take in a day, you might want to make sure you workout some, just so that your body does not throw away any of your protein due to lack of need (that is only if you are seriously overloading, which I doubt, since body builders typically consume a gram of protein for every pound that they weigh per day, so only unless you are taking that much protein per day would I tell you that you need to workout). So no worries, girly! You can take both in your diet