Paul Saladino· MD
so scooby is a condition that can develop under certain circumstances in humans and other animals as well of course but it will talk about humans here so let's say with that vitamin C ascorbic acid a school bate whatever you want to call it in the human body plays a number of roles which we're going to talk about today one of those is antioxidant effect but another really important one is in formation of collagen which is perhaps one of the most important proteins there we synthesize on a day to day basis there's a huge amount of collagen and your body structures and vitamin C as a cofactor for the formation of that collagen if you have a level of vitamin C which is too low and when I would say too low it as it turns out and it will become clear from this discussion that too low is a lot lower than what the RDI will tell you but if you get insufficient truly and sufficient vitamin C in your body you're gonna have a problem forming collagen and that's going to lead to a number of signs and symptoms of breakdown it's gonna be petechial hemorrhaging which Paul can explain to you there's gonna be slow wound healing there's going to be source developing there's going to be loosening your teeth in the sockets basically you know random bleeding and all these kind of things are going to be happening and obviously vitamin C deficiency scurvy or at their level can lift dealt with can be fatal