A deficiency in it can cause fatigue, tooth loss, and bleeding.
Drugs such as terpene-like cyclic ketones have been found to stimulate its production in rat tissues. It plays a key role in the synthesis of carnitite, which in turn is key in energy production, and it is a cofactor for the hydroxylation of lysine and proline during the synthesis of collagen. A deficiency in it can cause fatigue, tooth loss, and bleeding. Thus, James Lind suggested, for 10 points, that lemon and lime juice be put on British ships to provide what vitamin, the lack of which causes scurvy?
Drugs such as terpene-like cyclic ketones have been found to stimulate its production in rat tissues.
{ascorbic acid} [or Vitamin {C}]