Morikol® vs. Regular Collagen: What the Research Actually Shows
If you've been shopping for collagen, you've seen the numbers game: 10 grams, 15 grams, 20 grams per serving. Bigger must be better, right?
Not exactly. Dose matters, but structure matters more.
The peptide size problem
When a collagen protein is broken down in a lab, it fragments into peptides of different sizes. Most collagen peptides on the market are a mixed distribution — some usefully small, some too large to be absorbed intact, many somewhere in between.
The peptides that reach your bloodstream as intact bioactive fragments — and actually signal your cells to produce more collagen — are the shortest ones. Specifically: dipeptides and tripeptides. These are the fragments that research has shown to appear in human plasma within 30–60 minutes of oral intake, intact and bioactive.
What Morikol® is
Morikol® is a marine-sourced collagen that's been enzymatically processed to maximize tripeptide content. That means a higher percentage of the peptides in every serving are in the size range that's actually absorbed intact and biologically active.
Marine sourcing also matters. Marine collagen is structurally closest to human type I collagen — the same type that makes up most of your skin, bone matrix, and connective tissue — and it tends to be more bioavailable than bovine or porcine sources gram for gram.
Why we use it
We could have built moreVITAL around generic bovine collagen peptides at a lower cost. Plenty of brands do. But the whole point of moreU is transparency and meaningful doses — which also means using the form of each ingredient that the research supports, not the cheapest version we can stick on a label.
Morikol® is trademarked because it's a specific, clinically-studied form. When you see it on our label, you know you're getting that exact ingredient — not a generic substitute trading on a borrowed name.
That's the bar we hold every ingredient to.
