Microblog: Vitamin C on a Meat-Based Diet

What about Vitamin C on a meat-based diet?

✖️Carnivores have pretty much debunked the worries over scurvy.

What is scurvy?

🤒Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C. Early symptoms of deficiency include weakness, feeling tired and sore arms and legs. Without treatment, decreased red blood cells, gum disease, changes to hair, and bleeding from the skin may occur.

💡Now if you do feel any of these symptoms, you can always eat some of the foods listed. These symptoms can also be due to mineral or electrolyte imbalances and even thyroid imbalances.

👩🏻‍🏫Of the hundreds of meat-based clients I’ve worked with, where carnivore isn’t fully working, not one client was unwell because of a vitamin C deficiency.

❓Not enough fish for balanced fatty acids? Yes.
❓Too much liver? Yes
❓Not enough meat? Yes
❓Not enough fat? Yes

But never, ever too little vitamin C.

⚠️Pork liver (25.3 mg) and chicken liver (17.9 mg) do have measurable amounts of vitamin C while beef liver only has about 1.3 mg per 100 g serving. But always limit the amounts of liver in case of hypervitaminosis.

🙌🏼 Many of these foods consumed in 200 g servings (7 ounces) will cover your daily recommended value of vitamin C.

🍊 Sure, oranges are rich in vitamin C. For 100 g, it has about 130 mg of vitamin C but it also has 25 grams of carbs. Maybe oranges are designed to have more vitamin C because it has to compete with glucose for uptake.

🍋Sometimes I squeeze some fresh lemon in my morning water for digestion and for a little bit of vitamin C. Vitamin C can be a stimulus for better energy.

But I didn’t use lemon for 3 years.

📖 In @CarnivoreCure, I make the case of whether you should supplement vitamin C or not. (Table 11.23). For some, it may be needed but many don’t seem to need it.

🦪By eating fish and seafood, you will get some of your vitamin C needs. Just another reason to include fish and seafood in your diet.

📚 The full Vitamin C list is in Chapter 11 of @CarnivoreCure.

🌈These different meats should show you why eating a variety of meats on a carnivore diet is ideal. Maybe not required but ideal for nutrient-density.