why do the the fighters in MMA have Vaseline smeared all over their faces and in their wounds in between rounds?
In: Biology
It’s meant to help prevent wounds.
When you get hit in the face, you aren’t getting cut with anything. So what is going to make you bleed is your skin tearing, like a piece of paper.
Putting Vaseline on the skin before hand helps keep it soft and stretchy, instead of dried out, so it’s less likely to tear when you get hit.
The do have other things to help stop bleeding, namely chemicals that help make blood coagulate, but those aren’t Vaseline.
Vaseline could be applied to a wound that’s already there to try to prevent it from getting worse if it gets hit again.
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