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@KathleenMRooney Most mind-blowing fact I’ve encountered all month, scurvy-related or otherwise.

O____O

jesus christ this was a fact I could have happily gone to the grave not knowing

certainly gives me more enthusiasm for eating oranges, knowing that my body could just up and explode if I don’t

@katplanett

[id: Screenshot of text from a book that reads:

Infinite Exchange
Geoff Manaugh

1.
In a 2011 paper on the medical effects of scurvy, author Jason C. Anthony offers a remarkable detail about human bodies and the long-term presence of wounds. “Without vitamin C,” Anthony writes, “we cannot produce collagen, an essential component of bones, cartilage, tendons and other connective tissues. Collagen binds our wounds, but that binding is replaced continually throughout our lives. Thus in advanced scurvy”

—reached when the body has gone too long without vitamin C

—”old wounds long thought healed will magically, painfully reappear.”

In a sense, there is no such thing as healing. From paper cuts to surgical scars, our bodies are catalogues of wounds: imperfectly locked doors quietly waiting, sooner or later, to spring back open. end id]