The Numbers Behind The Epidemic
Every figure on this page is real and sourced. Only the panic is invented.
~2 million*
sailors killed by scurvy during the Age of Sail (c. 1500–1800). It has slipped our collective mind.
1,400 of 1,900*
men lost on Commodore Anson’s 1740–44 voyage — most to scurvy, not to the enemy.
4–12 weeks*
of no vitamin C before symptoms begin. You may already be on the clock.
10 mg*
of vitamin C per day prevents it. Roughly one-seventh of one orange. We are losing anyway.
~70 mg*
of vitamin C in a single orange — nearly a week’s bare minimum, ignored daily.
1747*
the year a cure was proven in one of history’s first clinical trials. We have had 278 years to act.
0*
amount of vitamin C the human body can make on its own. We are one of the few mammals that cannot.
85%*
of modern adult scurvy cases in the U.S. go misdiagnosed for over six weeks. The silence is real.
Estimated Scurvy Risk by Demographic
Methodology: one (1) genuinely peer-reviewed review of 280 modern adult cases, generalized far beyond what its authors would ever endorse. Bachelor and Discord-moderator figures extrapolated by us, the concerned.
A 2026 review of 280 twenty-first-century adult scurvy cases found 68.6% were men, median age 51. The data confirms what we feared about men.