Paul Saladino· MD
don't take mega doses of vitamin C don't even take a vitamin C supplement just need fresh meat eat some liver you're gonna get plenty of vitamin C in your diet
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don't take mega doses of vitamin C don't even take a vitamin C supplement just need fresh meat eat some liver you're gonna get plenty of vitamin C in your diet
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I believe that if you were looking 40 milligrams of vitamin C you could probably get that from a pound of most muscle mates
on a carnivorous diet it's very easy to meet your adequate requirements for vitamin C
if you're eating a half a pound of muscle meat and an ounce of liver a day you're probably getting plenty of vitamin C
and then you know if you're eating any liver you're probably getting enough vitamin C and then there are other foods that also have vitamins from the animal I've talked about salmon roe has a little bit of vitamin C the brain the pancreas the adrenals
if you're eating more than a pound of muscle meat a day that's fresh I mean it doesn't it can even be cooked doesn't have to be completely raw you know it can be cooked but probably not overcooked you're gonna get enough vitamin C in a day
with three ounces of liver having approximately 30 milligrams of vitamin C
when you look at the small studies have been done there's vitamin C in animals yeah there's vitamin C and mussel meat there's vitamin C in liver and the experiments that have been done you know at least anecdotally in carnivores there's never been a reported case of scurvy
I think it's very clear that if we're eating fresh animal meat and even organs which are a really good source of vitamin C liver has more brain has a ton that will easily meat enough for adequacy for a human for vitamin C
if you are eating an animal-based diet you will absolutely get ten milligrams of vitamin C a day you know there's no question
you can easily get to 60 milligrams a day eating animal foods nose-to-tail liver is more rich in vitamin C than muscle meat
it appears that humans don't need more vitamin C than you can gut eating animal foods nose-to-tail
so a true nose tail carnivore I could easily get 150 250 milligrams of vitamin C
those are doses of vitamin C that I think are obtainable from fresh animal foods
there's plenty of vitamin C found in animal foods if we're eating them the way our ancestors did
there is vitamin c in animal foods there is vitamin c in liver and spleen and organs there's vitamin c and muscle meat and a very small amount of vitamin c on the order of 10 milligrams or less is needed to prevent scurvy