If cartilage doesn’t have its own blood supply and cant repair itself, how is it helped or hurt by drug therapy or good or bad lifestyle choices?

Question

It seems very isolated from the other body systems but what goes on in the body still affects it?

In: Biology

Answer 1

>If cartilage doesn’t have its own blood supply and cant repair itself, how is it helped or hurt by drug therapy or good or bad lifestyle choices?
>It seems very isolated from the other body systems but what goes on in the body still affects it?

*Every* piece of living tissue in your body is in one way or another connected to your circulatory system (otherwise it wouldn’t be able to survive), either by way of capillaries, your lymphatic system or by way of direct transfer from neighboring cells.