The First Scurvy Cases were Actually Vitamin A Poisoning

Thanks to Grant Genereux, a new perspective of the first scurvy problem revealed itself.

Read his article here: https://ggenereux.blog/2021/09/18/scurvy/

Quote from Grant: “Therefore, some of the mainstays of the ship’s provisions were heavily salted beef and pork, oats, beer, very dry biscuits, and something called “portable soup”.”

Quote from Grant: The “portable soup” consisted of “all the offals of oxen killed in London for use of the Navy” with salt and vegetables added in.

Offals = “internal organs and entrails“… aka a lot of Vitamin A.

So vitamin C is still good, but it wasn’t the full story. High doses of vitamin C may slow ALDH a process for detoxing vitamin A.

Other cases of prisoners fed a diet of only rice for a year or more, with no vitamin C, never developed scurvy.

Humans use and reuse the oxidized form of vitamin C (dehydroascorbic acid). so we actually don’t require much in the diet.

When I was eating a lot of bacon and eggs, I would get bleeding gums. I took vitamin C, it got better, but the underlying problem was there, too much poison vitamin A in the diet.

Take it for what my opinion is worth. This is what makes the most sense to me.

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