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Tiny pieces of collagen don't just become building blocks — they send messages to your cells to make more collagen.

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Stimulation of type II collagen biosynthesis and secretion in bovine chondrocytes cultured with degraded collagen

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2003 Mar

When scientists fed cartilage cells broken-down collagen, the cells made more of their own collagen — but only when the collagen was broken up, not when it was whole. This means the tiny pieces of collagen act like signals telling the cells to rebuild tissue.

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The Molecular Interaction of Collagen with Cell Receptors for Biological Function

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This study talks about how collagen talks to cells, but it doesn’t show that collagen pieces actually turn on genes to make more collagen or fix tissues.

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