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As soon as you suffer an injury, your body immediately starts a healing process to help you recover. Antibodies tag any pathogens that enter your body through an open wound so that phagocytes, which are white blood cells that act as natural killers, can destroy them before they cause infection. Your blood clots in order to prevent excessive bleeding and close the wound to foreign invaders. Then your body starts fixing broken blood vessels, and new tissue and skin grow over the area. If you’ve broken a bone, your body sends extra blood and bone marrow to the spot to start the process of forming new bone tissue or repairing a fracture. When you’re injured, your body needs even more of the right fuels to power the recovery process. Food alone can’t heal a wound or a broken bone, but it can give your body the energy and components it needs to get the job done. Specific nutrients

Learn how a wound heals.

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Foods for Peak Fitness