RUN EASY - Marine Collagen Peptides Powder Unflavoured 100 grams

Injury is a key reason why runners, cyclists, triathletes, swimmers, crossfitters and anyone who undertakes an active lifestyle pull out of completing an event.

• Marine collagen has a specific amino acid profile that the body can use to repair and rebuild the connective tissue in our joints, bones, and muscles.
• The small peptides of Run Easy marine collagen reach the blood stream within an hour and are then transported to where the body needs them.
• Taken consistently, Run Easy can help maintain healthy connective tissue and is a useful aid for injury prevention.
• Collagen is also known to accelerate muscle recovery and reduce muscle soreness.
• Marine collagen is good for gut health as it can aid digestion, repair the gut lining, help heal a leaky gut and improve IBS.
• Run Easy also has three specific beauty benefits: reduced skin wrinkles, improved skin hydration and improved hair strength.

 

Run Easy marine collagen peptides unflavoured

Nutritional Information	Per 100g	Per 5g serve
Energy	1530kJ 360kcal	76kJ 18kcal
Fat (g)	0	0
-of which saturates (g)	0	0
Carbohydrate (g)	0	0
-of which sugars (g)	0	0
Fibre (g)	0	0
Protein (g)	90	4.5
Salt (g)	0.27	0.01
Histidine (mg)	1500	75
Isoleucine (mg)	1100	56
Leucine (mg)	2600	130
Lysine (mg)	3400	170
Methionine (mg)	1400	70
Phenylalanine (mg)	2000	100
Threonine (mg)	2700	135
Valine (mg)	2100	105
Alanine (mg)	10700	535
Arginine (mg)	8700	435
Aspartic acid (mg)	5300	265
Glutamic acid (mg)	9500	475
Glycine (mg)	22400	1120
Hydroxylysine (mg)	700	35
Hydroxyproline (mg)	9100	455
Proline (mg)	13100	655
Serine (mg)	3500	150
Tyrosine (mg)	400	20

Run Easy is a water-soluble powder that can be added to your favourite liquid and drunk, or mixed into food and eaten.

• The common ways that it is consumed are:
  • Mixed into a glass of water/squash or fruit juice
  • Stirred into a hot drink like coffee or tea until dissolved
  • Blended into a shake
  • Added to porridge
• Tips for consuming collagen:
  • Mixing into very cold liquid will slow the dissolving and dispersal process. If you want to do this, it’s best to use a blender.
  • There is no health benefit of consuming Vitamin C at the same time as collagen. Just ensure you have Vitamin C (found in fresh fruit and vegetables) as part of your daily diet.
  • Run Easy will not be affected by temperatures up to 150°C so it’s fine to use in hot drinks. When cooking, just add towards the end.

Sustainability

Collagen from fish has a lower impact on the planet compared to bovine collagen as it requires less land to feed and farm, plus it produces less CO2.

• Fish are farmed for food and the skins are a by-product. By processing the skins into collagen peptides, more of the fish is used, creating a more efficient use of resources and less waste.
• Our label is made from PP (Recycle symbol 5) and is recyclable in most UK council areas
• Run Easy packaging is plastic-free as we use a metal tin. Metal can be recycled forever.
• Metal provides an excellent barrier against air, allowing the collagen to last longer which reduces food waste.

 

FAQ

WHAT INGREDIENTS ARE USED IN RUN EASY?

We made the active decision to use only one ingredient in Run Easy – premium marine collagen. There are no added flavours, artificial additives, added sugar gums or fillers. This makes it easier to digest (more ingredients make it harder to digest). Endurance athletes need something that works and this means using a single, high quaity ingredient.

Our marine collagen is made from the skin of farmed white fish – Tilapia or Basa (Pangasius) fish species. They are both freshwater white fish, first from Asia now farmed all around the world. By using the skin, which is normally discarded, this means more of the fish is being consumed with less going to waste (reducing our environmental footprint).

The collagen is formed through a process using heat, pressure and an enzymatic process. This takes place in Europe. It is then tested for heavy metals and other toxins. We then pack it in the UK.

WHY DO YOU USE MARINE COLLAGEN PEPTIDES?

We use marine collagen because:

• It is more bioavailable than other sources of collagen and easier to digest; and
• It has a lower impact on the environment.

Smaller particles found in Run Easy make a big difference when it comes to getting all the benefits from your collagen supplement. Fish collagen is absorbed up to 1.5 times faster into your body. This means that marine collagen has superior bioavailability over beef or porcine collagen.

Farming cattle and pigs has a significant impact on the environment as they require large amounts of land and are relatively slow growing. Fish require significantly less land and are faster growing reducing their impact on the environment.

What is collagen?

Collagen is the body’s most abundant and structurally important protein. This elastic protein holds your body together by anchoring cells to one another. Anything that has elastic tissue has collagen. It is structurally vital for bones, cartilage, connective tissue, skin, and intestines. Replacing it, helps this elastic tissue repair and rebuild.

Our diets used to contain a lot more collagen. Animal bones and cartilage are abundant sources so adding bone broth or eating meat on the bone to your diet will help. Other sources of collagen are hooves, skin, and fish heads. As these have declined from most Western diets, collagen supplements have become more popular.

There are three common sources of collagen

• Bovine: from cows
• Porcine: from pigs
• Marine: from fish

You can also get collagen supplements from chicken and eggs, and from genetically modified yeast and bacteria. Collagen is not found in plants.

Many endurance athletes combine their protein shake with collagen supplements to round out their amino acid profile.

WHAT DO THE DIFFERENT COLLAGEN TYPES REFER TO?

There are about 28 “types” of collagen that can be found in the human body but three types—Type I, Type II, and Type III—comprise about 90% of all collagen in the body.

The source of the collagen leads to the ‘type’ classification, for example:

· Skin contains Type I and Type III

• Tendon contains only Type I
• Cartilage contains Type II

The type of collagen doesn’t limit its effectiveness to a specific area of the body, as the body will decide what needs repairing.

What's the difference between collagen peptides and hydrolysed collagen?

Collagen peptides and hydrolysed collagen describe the same process and can be used interchangeably.

Hydrolysed marine collagen allows humans to better digest the collagen. “Hydrolyse” comes from two Greek words: hydro (water) + lysis (break apart). To hydrolyse the fish skin means that water breaks apart the scales into smaller particles, so that the collagen peptides (what’s left over from the hydrolysation process) are easier for us to digest.

WILL COFFEE OR TEA DESTROY THE COLLAGEN IN RUN EASY?

No. Run Easy is safe to mix with coffee or tea and will not change the nutritional benefits.

Tea and coffee are made with boiled water at less than 100°C while marine collagen starts to denature and breakdown at 150°C. If you are using it in cooking, e.g. soup you should add it at the end of the cooking to ensure your dish is below 150°C.

DO I NEED TO TAKE RUN EASY WITH VITAMIN C?

No, you do not need to take collagen and Vitamin C together.

Vitamin C can help your body produce its own collagen proteins. There are plenty of Vitamin C sources in our everyday diet and so as long as you are consuming Run Easy as part of a balanced diet, there is no need to take Vitamin C at the same time.

IS THE PACKAGING RECYCLABLE?

Our packaging is plastic-free and easy to recycle.

More packaging is becoming plastic free but very little of it can easily be recycled. Often you must send it to specialist recycling centers which leads to a low recycling rate and increased CO2 emissions.

By using metal packaging, we use a material that is easy to recycle at the curbside. It is estimated that 96% of all metal is recycled.