This is not the first time I have met this bike. Vitamin B12 type with ascorbic acid antagonists. Either they are not absorbed together, or the ascorbic acid destroys it.
In fact, you can check the interaction of some vitamins or drugs on special resources on the network. I checked. No interaction has been noted between ascorbic acid and vitamin B12. We could stop at this, but let's dig out the origins of the story.
There is such an alternative approach to describing the interaction of these two vitamins. People who believe in interaction refer to some scientific journals from the mid-sixties of the last century.
The idea is that vitamin B12 contains cobalt. Therefore, it is called cyanocobalamin. So we can assume (at least according to the version sixty years ago) that this vitamin will be absorbed under the same conditions as cobalt.
Or rather not so. It will NOT be absorbed when cobalt is poorly absorbed. Well, that is, for vitamins in our intestines, special doors are often prepared, but if there is some remarkable component like cobalt, then the rules of passage inside our body may change.
In addition to the doors, a specially trained guard will also stand in the way of the vitamin, who will not let the vitamin pass if it looks suspicious.
Such a guard at the entrance can be alerted in the event of a high level of iron in our blood. Like if there is a lot of iron, then other metals will not start. Including cobalt.
So there is an opinion that vitamin C can improve the intake of iron in our body so much that panic will rise there, and the guards will stop letting in other metals like cobalt. And vitamin B12 as well.
A very, in my opinion, an attractive theory, but another has not yet been invented.
What stories have you heard on this topic?
