ElI5 does our body stop certain processes in order to heal more efficiently?

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For example we had a rough night we drank a lot bruised up several spots , dislocated some ribs , fractured some bones our body is into overdrive trying to stabilise itself, does it still multitask all the side-stuff at the moment?
-Growing hair / beard
-growing out the bones
-growing fingernails
-energy to keep you warm/sweat depending on the weather
And etc…
My thought is that these are just automated and unless the body is severely out of energy and resources it will keep them up , but in case of a deficiency of vitamins and stuff it will do them but it won’t work out as well and we would get the usual sings that something is not right.

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The body’s main goal is to survive. Say someone is anorexic, their body will stop having a period because it needs to focus on staying alive, not reproducing. It will stop certain bodily processes in order to put survival first.

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