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- What happens when sodium thiosulfate and vitamin C are mixed in the same liquid
- These two compounds participate in a redox exchange.
- Vitamin C is a strong reducing agent. Sodium thiosulfate is also a reducing agent, but it can act in a different redox window. When they touch in solution, they push electrons at each other and neutralize some of their reactive potential.
- The result is this:
- • The vitamin C loses much of its reducing strength.
- • The thiosulfate is partially converted to tetrathionate or sulfite species.
- The solution still contains dissolved material, but the signature antioxidant activity is significantly blunted.
- • It will not behave the same way as taking them separately.
- It is not “just water”, but it is not the potent detox combination you imagined. Most of the active redox capacity is spent inside the cup before it reaches your body.
- Why people sometimes felt strong effects anyway
- The strong effect you felt from the teaspoon was almost certainly from the thiosulfate alone. It can pull water into the intestine and disrupt microbial activity. Even if some of it reacted with vitamin C, enough thiosulfate remained to produce the bowel clearing and gut flora knockout you described earlier.
- So yes, mixing the two makes each one weaker.
- It does not destroy them completely, but it reduces the signature activity sharply.
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