What's food got to do with stress?

Nutritional stress is actually a major type of physical stress for 21st century man and woman as our bodies and organs gamely try to digest, assimilate and metabolise what we eat and drink. Do you give your body toxin-loaded, chemically-constituted platefuls of food and expect it to cope without a grumble? Even if you eat relatively well, life goes at such a pace nowadays that you probably gulp down half chewed mouthfuls, putting strain on your digestive system. In fact, from your body’s point of view, you're putting it under enormous stress.

metrostress is working with Proto-col a British health and beauty company to bring you a range of advance nutritional supplements to work alongside our stress buster service to further reduce your stress levels and build your energy.

Katy Livingston – Modern Pentathlete is a keen advocate of the products;

“I love green magic, it gives me endless amounts of energy and aids my recovery which is crucial for my strenuous training regime.”

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Advanced nutrition

A study at the University of Munich and Stamford University in the US on 2,000 men and women with osteoarthritis of the hip and knee found it reduced pain and increased mobility in more than 75 per cent of cases.

Patients who took supplements of collagen hydrolysate daily for three months were able to reduce pain-relieving medication significantly. Few side effects were reported.

The findings could offer relief for more than eight million people in the UK suffering from painful joints and reduced mobility caused by arthritis. Many rely on anti-inflammatory medications but these can damage the gut lining, causing ulceration.

Sports nutrition

Used by British Olympic athletes to speed their recovery from sports injuries, collagen supplements help to restore joints to health. Collagen is the most common protein in the body. "We need it for healthy joints, physical resilience and the ability to recover from injuries," explains Professor Greg Whyte, senior physiologist at Liverpool University and advisor to the British Olympic Team. "Yet we lose 1.5 per cent of our collagen every year after 25. By 40, we have lost 30 per cent."

James Greenwell, former Great Britain pentathlon team captain, began taking collagen hydrolysate supplements six years ago, after ripping tendons in his ankle. He was so impressed he set up proto-col to research collagen supplementation.

"My physio gave me 12 weeks to make a recovery,’ says James. ‘I took 15 capsules of collagen hydrolysate a day and I’d recovered most of my joint function in less than a month."

Skincare

The loss of collagen and elastin leads to degeneration of the skin causing wrinkles and loss of smoothness. Research has found that women lose collagen faster than men.

The positive effects of the oral administration of gelatin (collagen) on skin and organs attached to the skin (including nails and hair) has been observed for some time.