About Elastin

Elastin is needed wherever the body needs elasticity and resilience. Elastin helps our arteries to expand and contract with every heartbeat, our lungs to fill with air, and elastic ligaments to spring into life. Elastin also provides the skin with its ability to stretch. As we age our bodies stop producing Elastin, making it more difficult for the skin to stretch and stretch back, and therefore contributing to the sagging of the skin and the appearance of wrinkles and stretch marks.

The protein, Tropoelastin, is a natural protein made in elastic tissues, which when joined together forms Elastin. Elastagen specializes in the production of a highly purified human form of Tropoelastin and its formulation into human Elastin. The Elastin produced by Elastagen is a synthetic version of that found in a newborn baby's skin, with the look and feel of natural Elastin.