My chemist friends rebuttal on iron....

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My Ferritin is 58...My chemist friend continues to plead with me to stop taking

iron...I continue to do so based on Val's extensive experience and observation.

I told her hypohyroidism can cause low iron...she concedes that it can cause the

loss of other minerals but not iron.

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Pardon me Harry...Just what is the mechanism by which folks lose iron when

hypothyroid. The only clients I have ever observed who lose iron are those

(especially women) who bleed a lot.

When you are sick, yes, you become anemic because iron is toxic in sick people.

Then the doc gives you a shot of iron and you die! I have seen this happen to

sick clients who went to the hospital, etc.

In the sense that cell respiration is catalyzed by iron, and thyroid works

through promoting respiration, a deadly iron deficiency limits the ability to

respond to thyroid, but such extreme starvation-anemia is rare. More often

anemia, diagnosed as iron deficiency, is really a thyroid deficiency and/or an

inflammatory (infection, cancer, or poisoning) condition, in which iron stays in

storage. Then, doctors keep poisoning the people with big doses of iron, making

the inflammation worse, creating free-radical poisoning, degenerative disease.