Re: My chemist friends rebuttal on iron....

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> 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.

I was just reading back through this thread and wanted to make sure I'm not

hurting myself by supping iron. In my case, this would seem to apply since my

ferritin is high but my iron is low...even though I'm not anemic. Does iron

increase inflammation?

I just started going to a new chiro (old one wasn't helping my back issues at

all) and he said the sores below my ears and on my arms are from inflammation.

And with the back tightness/soreness I've had over the past 3 months that's been

getting worse, along with the high ferritin, inflammation seems a given. Will

probably be checking inflammation markers soon. But just wanted to make sure I'm

doing the right thing in the meantime by supping. Or should I hold off until the

back issues are resolved?

~Rainbow~

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