When Europeans began sailing the high seas on extended voyages,

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It was a painful disease where your body would literally start falling apart

and it killed more than 2 million

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Any discussion of scurvy has to start with what the disease is.

At its simplest, scurvy is caused by a lack of Vitamin C.

Most mammal species can produce their own vitamin C.

Humans, however, are one of the few species which cannot.

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