One Supplement You Need to Know About for Recovery
Apr 09, 2026
Welcome to the 1st Part of our 4 Part Series on our One Supplement You Need to Know About. Today, our focus is on collagen and it's effects on muscle recovery.
Bottom-line:
- Collagen is widely used in the general population, sports, and even aesthetics
- Recent studies show promise that collagen can help with muscle recovery after exercise, especially for passive tissues like tendons, sheaths, and connective tissues
- Moreover, a study by Bischof et al reveals that collagen helps biochemical recovery as well as functional recovery, such as jump height! Listen to the video for more details!
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Transcript:
nlock the power of collagen for muscle recovery and athletic performance. We explore a 12-week study showing 15g daily improves muscle damage symptoms and jump performance. Essential for rehab and strength professionals.
[00:01-00:26]
Dr. Wells here from St. Augustine Beach. It's a wild, windy day here. Today we're kicking off a 4part series. I think you're going to really love it. It's going to be on a supplement that everyone needs to start looking at, particularly in the rehab world, physical therapists, OTs, strength coaches, and that's collagen. I know collagen has really hit the market for a while. I've used it in my practice a little bit. I've talked to some other people, some other patients too that have used it successfully.
[00:27-00:48]
In this 4 part series, we're going to dive into 4 different areas. So today we're going to talk about the biomechanical characteristics following So like basically you go out, do a heavy lift. How does collagen help you recover? The second component we're gonna look at is body composition. There's some people that take collagen to sort of gain muscle and lose fat. Is that even evidence-based?
[00:48-01:06]
Stay tuned for part 2. For part 3, we're gonna look at middle-aged adults. So this is perfect for your outpatient PT. You're dealing with those 40yearold weekend warriors. They develop patellar tendinopathy or Achilles tendonitis. Does collagen help? We're gonna go over all that research in part 3. And then for part 4, we're gonna take a look at osteoarthritis.
[01:07-01:41]
We know that collagen can help, but what type, how much, and what are some of my things that I've seen in my clinical practice? So today we're gonna start with the shorter end of the discussion, and that's muscle recovery. And interestingly enough, recovery is a fascinating topic it's obviously sleep helps a lot I'd love to hear what you guys use in your practice I know some people use boots myofascial rolling but really ultimately sleep is the best thing right but This review by Bischoff et al.
[01:41-02:14]
in 2023 looked at basically a twelve week concurrent training program. So that looks resistance training with aerobic exercise combined. And while it's not a traditional heavy resistance training model, there was a lot of opportunity for muscle damage and they used a placebo group, which is cool. And effectively what they found was about 15 grams of collagen per day significantly helped biomolecular symptoms of muscle damage, but it also improved things like the countermovement jump.
[02:14-02:36]
We saw an improvement of like 4 centimeters in the countermovement jump in a couple days. ......... So to me, this is important not only from that nerdy statistical side, but also important from the actual functional application for me as a PT and a strength coach, right? So when I work with my golfer or my athlete and I say, taking the collagen is gonna help you get that next level, it will.
[02:36-03:01]
So if you haven't seen that article, I'll share it in the link. Also, stay tuned for our courses. We have that 3part series, our Certified Nutritional Physical Therapy course. We also have a new add-on, which is our supplement guide. It has some really good handouts and good information for PTs. It goes over some of this collagen information and gives PTs and rehab professionals more concrete evidence and cheat sheets.
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