Dear Subscriber,
I saw this week where a well-known medical journalist posted that heart failure may be connected with iron deficiency and cited an article a decade old. In light of my recent research on iron, the recent ozone meeting I attended, and a suggestion that you need more iron, I thought I’ve better comment.
Yes, iron is necessary for life and health. But like everything, it is a two-edged sword, and like many things, its safety is quite limited. The report of the journalist tried to link congestive heart failure with iron deficiency. Yes, if you truly are deficient in iron, you will be anemic and have more limited ability to carry oxygen to needy cells, and heart cells are among the neediest. But iron deficiency anemia is not common. Even among menstruating women, it is not common but certainly is present.
The pundits, years ago, made a bad mistake in adding inorganic iron (actually metallic iron) to foods to” fortify” said PROCESSED foods to protect menstruating women who have a significantly higher risk of iron deficiency via loss. So, they felt it fit to poison everyone for a smaller percentage of the female population.