Meat is an anti-scorbutic, meaning it can prevent or cure scurvy, potentially due to its carnitine content which is essential for collagen and carnitine synthesis.

“meat is actually an anti scorbutic not only does it have vitamin C in it but it actually prevents or cures it actually cures scurvy and that's been known for centuries so because it doesn't have a lot of vitamin C in it that's a bit of a puzzle right and and even we're talking about explorers who were not low-carb dieters and give them some meat and they're scurvy goes away so I started looking into how that could be possible and one of the things that I think might be actually really important is carnitine because the the reason we need vitamin C mostly is to make collagen and to make carnitine”