Cross-Talk Between Iron Metabolism and Diabetes – (08-05-02)



Cross-Talk Between Iron Metabolism and Diabetes

Iron supplementation is always a difficult issue. Here we see a connection with iron depletion and lowered risk of diabetes. Considering that iron is known to be a pro-oxidant and there is an inflammatory component to type 2 diabetes, this is not a great surprise. However, iron is essential for healthy oxygen transport in red blood corpuscles and iron deficiency anemia causes its own set of problems. As a side note, one of the pharmaceutical prenatals is now putting stool softeners in with the iron because iron is known to constipate patients. The brain dead formulators at this company have not yet realize that the constipation comes from poor absorption of cheap iron. Don’t improve quality of the iron…just add another substance to counteract the effects… (care to guess which approach is cheaper??).

Diabetes — Abstracts: Fernández-Real et al. 51 (8): 2348

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