{"id":243,"date":"2022-09-13T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/vitamin-c-is-essential-for-bone-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:54:47","slug":"vitamin-c-is-essential-for-bone-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-c-is-essential-for-bone-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin C is essential for bone maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study evaluated the relationship between vitamin C deficiency and the development of fractures caused by osteoporosis (\u201cspontaneous\u201d fractures). Analyses of vitamin C-deficient mice revealed a reduction of bone formation (process by which new bone is produced) by more than 90%. The researchers concluded that vitamin C is essential for the maintenance of bone health. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Subburaman Mohan,\u00a0Anil Kapoor,\u00a0Anny Singgih,\u00a0Zhang Zhang,\u00a0Tim Taylor,\u00a0Hongrun Yu,\u00a0Robert B Chadwick,\u00a0Yoon-Sok Chung,\u00a0Leah Rae Donahue,\u00a0Clifford Rosen,\u00a0Grace C Crawford,\u00a0Jon Wergedal,\u00a0David J Baylink<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16059632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study evaluated the relationship between vitamin C deficiency and the development of fractures caused by osteoporosis (\u201cspontaneous\u201d fractures). Analyses of vitamin C-deficient mice revealed a reduction of bone formation (process by which new bone is produced) by more than 90%. The researchers concluded that vitamin C is essential for the maintenance of bone&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[845,846,839,840,843,841,834,833,842,835,837,844,838,836],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}