Microblog: Vitamin C on a Meat-Based Diet

Adapted from @CarnivoreCure: Let’s settle the question about vitamin C on a meat-based diet once and for all.

1️⃣ FEAR OF SCURVY
A minimum of 10 mg of vitamin C seems to stave off scurvy. But the story of the sailors with scurvy fails to talk about the fact that HALF the men on the boat DID NOT get scurvy-even though they were on the same exact diet.

2️⃣ QUESTIONABLE RDA VALUES
1974: the RDA for men is 45 mg.
1989: the RDA for men is 60 mg.
2000: the RDA for men is 90 mg.

WHY?

⁉️Sure, science is a thing. But did we really progress and learn that we need DOUBLE the amount in just 26 years? It’s been 21 years, are we due for another uptick?

3️⃣ GOLD STANDARD BREASTMILK
We design our amino acid requirements for proteins around the makeup of breastmilk.
The daily RDA for 0–6 months of vitamin C is 40 mg.
7–12 months is 50 mg.

🤱🏻Breastmilk will MAYBE have half that amount. Should we stop exclusively breastfeeding because it’s not making the vitamin C cut? (Please don’t.)