Delayed Healing: Nutritional and Physiological Context Healthy skin is formed due to a well-orchestrated process of building the constituent tissues. The body needs certain nutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, zinc and vitamins) to fasten the process of healing which unfortunately when gravity lacks this essential minerals it will take a longer time to heal. This delay is altitude dependent and is mainly attributed to poor collagen synthesis necessary for repair of the tissues.healing (ad)
Deficiencies and Search for Healing
Carbohydrates and Proteins
Carb intake fuels cellular functions, which are crucial for processes of healing. A deficiency will leave a person with not enough energy to do basic metabolic processes needed for wound healing. Collagen production relies heavily on proteins, including amino acids. Collagen is the major structural protein in the extracellular matrix responsible for compactness of tissues. Decreased protein intake affects numerous processes in the body and collagen synthesis is one of them which leads to prolonged wound healing.
Zinc and Vitamins
Zinc is important for collagen formation and immune function. Involved in the activity of many enzymes and therefore, wound healing Zinc deficiency can, in fact, lessen the inflammatory response and fibroblast activity resulting into an inefficient wound healing. Vitamins such as Vitamin C are likewise critical for the body in order to form collagen and protect antioxidants during healing. These vitamins are also important for proper healing of wounds and a deficiency can make your body more compromised.
Although many use the term hydration to refer to simply water intake, electrolyte balance will also have been affected during exercise.
Since electrolytes are needed more and more to maintain our life functions working, the lack of them may impair wound healing further, as the supply of O2 ultimately decreases in tissues. Oxygen plays important roles in cellular metabolism and, therefore, in the growth of proliferating cells, including those responsible for tissue repair. Wounds that do not receive adequate oxygen supply are very slow to heal and turn chronic, if not resolved.
Corticosteroids, however, may have a negative effect on wound healing because they elevate blood glucose levels impairing one of the ever present physiologic challenges that accompanies trauma. 102 Thus in summary best practice consists of proper nutritional status including appropriate intake of carbohydrates, proteins, zinc and vitamins to provide the essential elements for collagen synthesis and appropriate amounts needed by a catabolic state]; Keeping Hydration levels in check are also essential in order for tissues to receive the oxygen and nutrients needed to recover well.