How does vitamin C help to promote healing in wounds and fractures? Like what is the process?
In: Biology
Vitamin C is a body chemical that, among other functions, repairs a protein that in turn is responsible for repairing collagen, the main holding-things-together material in animal bodies.
If you don’t get enough vitamin C in your body, you won’t have enough working repair protein, and wound-healing, which mostly consists of tying things together with collagen, won’t work right. If you go *way* too long without getting enough vitamin C, even old wounds can open back up. It’s called *scurvy.*
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