High iron, Rusting on the inside!
Too much iron can have potentially damaging effects.
It’s an accelerant to vascular disease, increases infections, deregulates the immune,
deposits in the adrenals and pituitary, leads to liver disease, can effect
brain in terms of mood disorders, increases coronary artery disease, can make joints wear away quicker as a
promoter to tissue damage.
It can build
up dramatically over time and the effects are very subtle.
Currently they are
looking at Alzheimer’s and dementia and seeing the effects of extra iron
deposits in the brain.
For the majority of nutrients the body has a very good
capacity to get rid of what it doesn’t want but from an evolutionary point the
body has evolved to hold onto iron and does not have very good excretory
pathways for it. Males are more at risk with a RDI of 7mg daily compared with
the average male that consumes 17mg daily.
A subset of those with chronic fatigue, have elevated iron
as a contributing factor.
This is concerning because I see so many products and
supplements with added iron.
We should
only ever be giving or consuming iron at safe levels so you’re not delivering
iron to tissues that will be associated with oxidative stress.
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