I'm often asked my opinion about the cause or treatment of some medical condition,

but the question to instead ask is, what does the science say?

What is the best available balance of evidence published in the peer-reviewed medical

literature you have to say right now?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. Today, we answer a wide variety of

your questions, like the benefits and risks of statins and whether or not you should get a flu shot.

All right, so let us jump right on to questions. Okay, question number one, how fast you get vitamin and seed deficiency if you want

on a full carnivore diet? Um, uh, yeah, so, uh, vitamin C is actually found in raw meat,

but if you cook meat, you're going to destroy the vitamin C, um, which, I mean, you don't want

eat raw meat, um, for food safety reasons. There C, which, I mean, you don't want to eat raw meat for food safety reasons.

There was, I forget the scurvy studies.

I do, in one of my book, I talk about the scurvy studies.

It's just a matter of weeks when you start to get decreased wound healing, which is important.

Collagen production requires vitamin C. And so, and they actually, which is important. Collagen production requires vitamin C.

And so, and they actually, this was before ethics committees, but they actually took

people and they sliced them open, study subjects, volunteered, maybe not volunteered, probably

got paid.

They sliced them to give the exact same amount, the exact same wound.

And then they put them on vitamin C deficient diets to find out how much vitamin C you needed.

And you didn't need a lot.

I forget what it was like, you know, 10 or 25 milligrams a day.

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