| CMN - 1/14/2025 10:25 And sailors used to get sick from scurvy because they ate a limited diet of salted meats, cheese, and fish...a keto/carnivore diet. I recently learned a lot about kidney function while spending a week and half in the ICU with our son...have you had a CBC W PLT NO Diff and a Basic Metobolic Panel blood test done recently? there are some pretty important levels that need to be maintain for proper kidney, pancreas, and liver function. The potential "dark" side of a keto/carnivore diet is seldom if ever mentioned on this forum.
Nobody ever got scurvy because of any of those things. Scurvy is simply a lack of Vitamin C. It was pretty much boiled out of the few things they took which could have at one time contained it. The limited diet on ships in the age of sail is just because it was what they could take that wouldn't rot, at least for a while. The Royal Navy, eventually, proved that a diet preservable on ships of sail could prevent scurvy with a bit of citrus. They're still called Limeys two centuries later. And lest you think I am just an uninformed hayseed farmer with a tinfoil hat, the definitive work on the subject would be, suitably named, "Scurvy". By Stephen J. Bown. And yes, I've read it. It's very good.
Best wishes and prayers that your son gets better and home safely.
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