High vitamin C requirements may be a consequence of high sugar intake, as sugar and vitamin C compete for the same receptor sites.

“his thing was bump bump those up and bump vitamin C Way up partly because we lost the ability to make our own vitamin C and because we're not frugivores anymore but I might argue that that that the high needs for vitamin C over the past decades was a result of the totality of our diet partly because of the high sugar content because sugar competes vitamin C competes for the same receptor site as sugar”