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Humans and other related primates are also very efficient at recycling vitamin C. Our daily requirements aren't zero, but they are lower than I think is popular

• sph 3y ago
  It virtually reaches zero the lower amount of carbohydrates you consume. Vitamin C shares the same intake pathway as glucose, so the least glucose in your bloodstream, the less need for supplementation, and the trace amounts found in meat are enough. Inuits consuming their diet of purely meat and fat for 6+ months a year do not get scurvy, and it is not a generic mutation either, as testified by Europeans that lived among them and adopted their diet without issue. See Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the ethnologist who spent years living and eating like an Inuit, and anyone following a strict carnivore diet. The entire meme about sailors getting scurvy because they didn't eat their vegs is because their diet was pretty much poor quality carb-heavy food like rice, potatoes and bread, so even just supplementing with lemons was enough to keep scurvy at bay.