Bone Health. Several studies on collagen, which represents 90% of organic bone mass, suggest that orally administering collagen peptides may provide beneficial effects on bone metabolism, especially in the calcium-deficient condition such as osteopenia, without obvious undesirable effects.
Lance Armstrong's rise and fall â Armstrong rides at the Ikon Ride for the Roses to benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation in May 1998. He established the foundation to benefit cancer research after he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996.
Due to the Lance Armstrong doping scandal in 2012, the former cyclist was banned for life and was stripped of his Tour de France victories. As a result, Armstrong resigned as chairman of the foundation in October 2012 and from the foundation's board of directors in November 2012.