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How our diet factors into healing and recovery

Every phase of wound healing requires extra protein, experts say: to knit cells and skin back together and to strengthen injured muscles.

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Protein is the foundation of every cell in the body. But determining the adequate amount of protein to consume depends on several factors.

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