Want to move better, perform at your peak, and stay injury-free? It starts with your tendons and ligaments. Whether you're an athlete or someone just looking to stay active, strong and flexible tendons and ligaments are essential for preventing injuries and improving endurance. With the right care and nutrition, like TENDOFORTE® Bioactive Collagen Peptides®, you can support your tendons and ligaments to keep them performing at their best, no matter your age or activity level.
How do Tendons and Ligaments Determine Mobility?
Strong tendons and ligaments are crucial for lifelong wellness and physical activity. Ligaments bind bones together and tendons bind muscle to bone. Made of collagen, they are the connecting elements of the body, crucial for movement control, stability, and better mobility. For athletes, acute soft-tissue injuries, those affecting muscles, tendons and ligaments, are extremely common and result from fibre degeneration or commonly known as overuse. These injuries are frustrating for athletes as they are slow to recover. Whether running, cycling or lifting weights; strength, power, speed and endurance performance is dependent on strong tendons and ligaments. High performing tendons and ligaments combine both strength and flexibility allowing athletes to remain functional at top speeds and power for longer. Collagen fibres can provide them the right elasticity for optimal function and performance, especially when aging.
How TENDOFORTE® makes a difference in strengthening your ligaments and tendons?
TENDOFORTE®, Bioactive Collagen Peptides® from GELITA, are specifically designed to increase the health and quality of ligaments and tendons. Pre-clinical and clinical trials show the positive effects of TENDOFORTE®, especially when combined with physical activity. The risk of injury decreases considerably, whilst flexibility improves. TENDOFORTE® is also clinically tested to significantly strengthen tendons and ligaments.
How does TENDOFORTE® play its role as an effective nutritional intervention for strong tendons and ligaments?
Strong tendons and ligaments contribute to the foundation of high physical performance and fast return-to-training in athletes. They are also the prerequisite for the fluid and flowing motion required in isometric, high flexibility exercises, such as yoga and Pilates.
The strength of tendons and ligaments depends on an intact composition of the extracellular matrix collagens, proteoglycans and elastic fibers. TENDOFORTE® is a Bioactive Collagen Peptide®, optimised to stimulate the biosynthesis of new extracellular matrix molecules for healthy tendons and ligaments.
Results from the clinical research showed that
1. TENDOFORTE® improves extension properties of the finger joints
In one of the first clinical trials to look at a nutritional intervention for connective tissue weaknesses, the oral ingestion of specific collagen peptides were shown to improve the extension properties of the finger joints, due to firmer ligaments.
2. TENDOFORTE® helps your body produce more of the building blocks needed to keep your tendons and ligaments strong and healthy
A first experiment in-vitro observed that Fibroblasts, obtained from human ligaments and Achilles tendons, were able to produce significantly more tissue matrix (1.2 to 2.4- fold) when directly exposed to the Bioactive Collagen Peptides® found in TENDOFORTE®. The RNA expression of collagen significantly increased, and the synthesis of elastin - the most prominent component of the ligament matrix - increased by approximately 50%. The break-down of tissue was also reduced. This was the first study to suggest a role for Bioactive Collagen Peptides® in reducing the risk of injuries and rupture of ligaments and tendons.
3. Reduced injuries due to improved ankle stability
In 2017, a randomised controlled study examined the effect of TENDOFORTE® on 60 men and women with ankle point instability over a period of 6 months. The daily intake of 5 g TENDOFORTE® showed a significant improvement of ankle stability during daily activity and during sports as well as significantly less injuries.
By strengthening your tendons and ligaments with TENDOFORTE®, you're setting yourself up for better mobility, faster recovery, and fewer injuries—whether you're training hard or just staying active. With the right support, your body can perform at its best for longer. Don't wait for the aches and pains to slow you down—take care of your connective tissues today and keep moving strong tomorrow!