Vitamin C contraindicated with shellfish?
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:29 pm
First I've heard of this claim
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/08/ ... -dont-mix/
. Eating shellfish and popping huge doses of vitamin C could prove lethal, say University of Illinois researchers who have made a surprising discovery about the nature of arsenic poisoning. The researchers in the university`s animal sciences department in Champaign found that forms of arsenic usually considered harmless can become strongly poisonous through an interaction with vitamin C. The unexpected finding by Gail Czarnecki, David Baker and John Garst concerns the way molecules of arsenic compounds are constructed.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/08/ ... -dont-mix/