For example, everyone says eat fruit, vitamin c to prevent eye styes, chapped lips, etc or to take vitamin c tablets. So when it is in the body, how does it work? If one has very chapped lips for example, how will eating vitamin c help keep that down, or how does it work in the body to keep effects of lack of vitamin c at bay?
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Vitamin C is necessary for the production of collagen, which is the basic building block for all of your tissues. Unlike most animals (but not all) Primates cannot manufacture Vitamin C and must get it from their diets, which usually isn’t an issue as most primates live in the tropics and eat a lot of fruit.
If you don’t get Vitamin C, you get Scurvy as a consolation prize.
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