Chromium picolinate

Chromium picolinate is a form of chromium, a trace mineral, bound to picolinic acid — a pairing used because the body absorbs it more readily than chromium alone.

The picolinate pairing is the reason it is that form and not another: chromium on its own is taken up poorly. It sits in the Body Balance Elixir rather than the collagen one because its work is metabolic — it belongs to the formula about how the body uses what it is given, not to the one about skin.