Living bodies require iron for many things, including oxygen transport, DNA synthesis, and metabolism and detoxification. Iron is so important, in fact, that the body has no method for excreting iron, and even has an iron recycling program that reclaims iron from old red blood cells. Our bodies evolved in …
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 …