Marine Collagen Peptides

Nearly odorless and startlingly fine, this collagen dissolves completely in cold water within a minute — no film, no clumping, and none of the faint fishy note that plagued earlier marine collagens. It is a marked change from the gelatin-based versions of years past, which needed real heat to dissolve at all. Coastal kitchens have simmered fish skin and bone into broth for supple skin and easy joints long before anyone had isolated the protein responsible and given it a name. Collagen is long valued for supporting the skin's elasticity and the body's connective tissue, the two things people notice first when either starts to fail. Ours is drawn from the skin of wild-caught white fish, a byproduct of fisheries that would otherwise discard it, and broken down enzymatically into small peptides sized for absorption rather than left as the large, sluggish molecule of whole gelatin. It's predominantly Type I collagen, the form most associated with skin, and every batch is screened for heavy metals given its marine origin. One scoop, once a day, stirred into coffee, water, or a smoothie — it carries no flavor of its own and won't announce itself in any of them. A plain, patient supplement for a slow, unglamorous kind of repair.