Okay, so here’s my basic strategy I’ve used.
First, I usually drink 2 cups of coffee a day. To this coffee, I’ve added sugar and either cream or milk. The first thing I did was add 2 scoops of (about 20g) of collagen peptides to each coffee. It dissolved perfectly, didn’t add any weird taste (if anything, it may have enhanced it a bit), and gets me 40g of collagen protein (7.5g of glycine) right off the bat. I was using a protein shake before this, so in some ways, I was just swapping a low glycine high methionine protein for a high glycine/low methionine one. A hot liquid is good, because any protein with a lot of glycine in it can’t be dissolved all that well in cold liquids.
Next, I would take 5 grams of glycine with meals, especially if I eat something like yogurt, as it mixes in perfectly. This is really a pure supplement, but again, I didn’t see any way to get to high levels of glycine without it (unless I wanted to eat like, 300g of protein a day or something, which I didn’t want to do, or just eat pure gelatin/collagen, which can lead to nausea pretty quickly).
For dinner, I usually cooked up a meal in the instant pot with a pound of something like eye round or chicken, a pound of beef tendon, and would add extra gelatin for more protein and glycine.
I will also make fruit flavored gelatin, using juice, sugar, and lots of gelatin. This is a great snack, and a good way to get more glycine and gelatin.
This is the framework I usually follow (I’m consistent, but not rigid), and have been doing it for 9 months now. I’ve not noticed any negatives. I have lost weight (mostly fat) during this time, although there are other factors that have probably helped this. I did notice some improvements to my skin. Hasn’t been miraculous type improvements, but more modest. I plan to continue this framework, going forward. I’ll post some cronometer shots next.
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