Nick Szabo  🔑

This is wrong. Meat is nutrient sufficient. Vegetables are not (low vitamins A, B12, D, fatty acids, E and K)https://twitter.com/ketoaurelius/status/1083419234749825027?s=21 …

You're saying it's wrong to say carnivore diet is low on Vit C when your spreadsheet confirms it? Where the heck are carnivores getting their calcium?

Read the tweet. Without the anti nutrients from vegetables, blood levels of vitamin C are perfect. RDAS don’t account for this

Tell me about scurvy.

Red meat is a known cure of scurvy. It has enough vitamin c to cure it but the USDA just assumed it had 0. Glucose also blocks vitamin c absorption and requires you to eat more

Just checked a couple of articles on scurvy on http://pubmed.com  Most of the cases were treated with veggies and citrus fruits. Not with meat. Meat doesn't look like a known cure for scurvy.

The issue isn't curing scurvy, you can do that with a vitamin pill. Issue is whether an all-meat diet gives enough vitamin C to prevent scurvy, and to do other good things vitamin C might do, such as help the immune system. I haven't seen enough evidence either way on this one.

These are my go-to resources on the topic:https://twitter.com/bitstein/status/1025020851169779712 …