It’s just dawned on me that after a life of being told to include enough vitamins in my diet that I haven’t a scooby what vitamins actually do. Can someone please why its important to have enough vitamins?
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A few years ago, a surprisingly entertaining book came out called [Vitamania](http://www.catherine-price.com/home1) that talks through what all the different vitamins do, including when you don’t have enough of them and when you have too much of them. Each one operates a bit differently. A lack of vitamin C, for example, will cause scurvy, which is kind of common knowledge. What isn’t common knowledge is that scurvy is horrific, causing (among other things) every wound that you have ever had to re-open in your skin. When you have wounds that heal, the skin does not repair itself to create the same former skin structure but is instead essentially stitched together with stuff that needs vitamin C to remain operational. Deprive yourself of vitamin C, and all the stitchings come undone.
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