The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has mandated the addition of supplemental iron compounds to processed foods in America since 1941, and levels were increased in 1969 to combat the stated problem of ‘Iron Deficiency Anemia’. While something indeed is missing, it’s not iron. Consider the following two graphs on …
Reference: Fields M, Lewis CG, Lure MD, Burns WA, Antholine WE. Low dietary iron prevents free radical formation and heart pathology of copper-deficient rats fed fructose. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1993 Feb;202(2):225-32. doi: 10.3181/00379727-202-43531. PMID: 8380928. This study was done in rats. Key Points From The Study: When fed …
Reference: Liu, C., Gong, J., Zhang, Q., Chen, G., Yin, S., Luo, Z., … He, Z. (2023). Dietary iron modulates gut microbiota and induces SLPI secretion to promote colorectal tumorigenesis. Gut Microbes, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2023.2221978 This study was done in mice. Full text here. This study demonstrates that too much iron in the …