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You're mixing up vitamins. Meat doesn't contain any vitamin C; it's one of the few vitamins we need that you can't get from meat. And you can eat all the vitami
by caymanjim 5y ago
You're mixing up vitamins. Meat doesn't contain any vitamin C; it's one of the few vitamins we need that you can't get from meat. And you can eat all the vitamin C you want. It's vitamin A that you have to be careful to avoid overdosing on, particularly from the livers of omnivores and carnivores.
- samatman 5y agoHalf right. He is mixing up vitamin A toxicity from some animal livers with vitamin C, but vitamin C is also found in liver, fish roe, and in small amounts in muscle. Adequate amounts? All I can tell you is that I know a small handful of people who have eaten an exclusively carnivore diet for years on end without suffering from scurvy.
- caymanjim 5y agoTIL. Seems that this was studied extensively in Inuit and other Alaskan populations that have a particularly meat-heavy diet.
- db48x 5y agoIt looks like I was mixing up the toxicity; thanks for the correction!