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People who are even decades on carnivore diet do not develop scurvy. Neither do Inuits, Masai and neither did our carnivore ancestors living during ice ages.Vitamin C is very important and its easy to have inadequate levels for optimum health. Unlike animals like cats, humans don't synthesize their own vitamin C, and must obtain it from food.
The average human male needs about 9-10mg of vitamin C a day to prevent diseases like Scurvy, and vitamin C is degraded or destroyed by any kind of cooking that involves higher heat (like stewing, boiling, grilling, etc., commonly used to cook meat). On the other hand, an optimum level of vitamin C would involve more like 70-90mg a day to saturate the neutrophils for optimum immune functioning, ideal wound healing, and joint health (since it's involved in the synthesis of collagen and cartilage). You also need vitamin C to protect the nitric oxide cycle in the body, which is highly beneficial for cardiovascular health and athletic performance.
Scurvy is developed with alcoholism or when sugar competes for the same pathways as the vitamin C. People consuming 0 sugar can metabolize vitamin C perfectly and so a small dosage that is naturally in animal products is sufficient.
Scurvy was historically always developed in populations with high alcohol and high carbohydrate consumption, like in sailors (rum + crackers diet). Those need fruit or a vitamin C supplement, not carnivores.
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