Ben’s Reviews > The Collagen Cure: The Forgotten Role of Glycine and Collagen for Optimal Health and Longevity > Status Update

Copies and pastes lists provided earlier in the book.

Consume vitamin C one hour before exercising to increase collagen synthesis but also don't consume antioxidants (such as vitamin C) shortly before or after you exercise because they blunt its beneficial effects.

Now I'm being told that I'll learn in greater detail later about things they've already elaborated in great detail earlier. Did they proofread their own book after they wrote it?!

This is the most poorly formatted book I've ever read. Over the span of two pages, the authors introduce without rhyme or reason two completely different lists, one of the GI index of various foods, another of 'nutraceuticals that inhibit AGEs, MMPs, and protect collagen'. Between these two lists they manage to discuss a third, also completely unrelated topic, interleukin-1 beta. The authors must suffer ADD hardcore.

Immediately after encouraging people to eat more sodium (because it transports vitamin C, which is involved in collagen synthesis), they quote a report about air pollution that calls it worse even than 'alcohol use, physical inactivity, or high sodium intake'. The authors cite a resource that directly contradicts and calls profoundly unhealthy the very thing they'd recommended only moments before. Stupid, lazy, both?