The Real History of Scurvy
by Jim West (please share and cite)
My alternative theory for scurvy
Scurvy was found among sailors on ships. But the ship's wood was treated with arsenic to ward off barnacles and other pests. The sailors maintained the arsenic treatment to the wood.
Arsenic was used much as a preservative for the foods that were being shipped back in those days. Sailors drank arsenic tonic water, as a pepper-upper.
The original scurvy cure was "scurvy grass", known for its high sulfur content, which combines with heavy metals enabling them to be passed out through the kidneys.
Captain Cook originally used onions (not citrus), also high in sulfur.
The stories about oranges and lemons are a cover-up for the history of scurvy as arsenic poisoning. They threw a bone to the vitamin C loving health nuts who helped to spread the stories.
Sulfur in citrus
Dr. Thomas Lind is said to have cured scurvy with citrus in his experiments, but citrus is biological vitamin C not ascorbic acid, which is a dead synthetic fraction of live biological vitamin C. Ascorbic acid is the profitable industrial definition of vitamin C.
Citrus also contains some small amount of sulfur.
A related issue, started by Justin (in the comments), is that ascorbic acid, the commonly used form of "vitamin C" is not actually vitamin C. See related post.
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Hi Jim
I have had a Quick Look at your ultrasound article and will come back to it again.
I had a look at VitC and I came to the conclusion the part that did help ‘maybe’ was the sodium in sodium ascorbate.
Oxidation being the opposite of what we need in physiological terms.
Oxidation equaling dehydration.
I’ve dismissed the gaseous exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide as a fraud. Hydration underpins our physiology not oxygenation. Zero oxygen required.
Hydration equals salt plus water. Every part of our physiology requires moisture. Dryness begets dis-ease.
I’ve an alternative explanation of air and water.
But you may have read my introductions already within the note you commented.