The active ingredients are collagen-derived protein and glycine, and the effect is almost entirely a satiety effect the same mechanism that makes any protein preload work, just in a form that's cheap, shelf-stable, and doesn't require cooking
What is keeping inflammation high
Kovalcsik R, Devlin T, Loux S, Martinek M, May J, Pickering T, et al
The relatively high percentage of Ki67 positive cells that represent cells in an active cell cycle, as compared to BrdU positive cells that represent any proliferation over the 7 days, implies that maximal replication likely occurs at 7 days (time of analysis)
Further details and supplementary analyses can be found in Additional file 7