Posted on 08/24/2024 2:46:26 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Higher intake of heme iron, the type found in red meat and other animal products—as opposed to non-heme iron, found mostly in plant-based foods—was associated with a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) in a new study.
The researchers assessed the link between iron and T2D using 36 years of dietary reports from 206,615 adults enrolled in the Nurses' Health Studies I and II and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.
The researchers also analyzed the biological mechanisms underpinning heme iron's relationship to T2D among smaller subsets of the participants. They looked at 37,544 participants' plasma metabolic biomarkers, including those related to insulin levels, inflammation, and iron metabolism. They then looked at 9,024 participants' metabolomic profiles—plasma levels of small-molecule metabolites.
The study found a significant association between higher heme iron intake and T2D risk. Participants in the highest intake group had a 26% higher risk of developing T2D than those in the lowest intake group. In addition, the researchers found that heme iron accounted for more than half of the T2D risk associated with unprocessed red meat and a moderate proportion of the risk for several T2D-related dietary patterns. In line with previous studies, the researchers found no significant associations between intakes of non-heme iron from diet or supplements and risk of T2D.
The study also found that higher heme iron intake was associated with blood metabolic biomarkers associated with T2D. A higher heme iron intake was associated with higher levels of biomarkers such as C-peptide, triglycerides, C-reactive protein, leptin, and markers of iron overload, as well as lower levels of beneficial biomarkers like HDL cholesterol and adiponectin.
The researchers also identified a dozen blood metabolites—including L-valine, L-lysine, uric acid, and several lipid metabolites—that may play a role in the link between heme iron intake and TD2 risk.
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That’s funny. I was pre diabetic for about two yrs. Then went on Keto diet meat, animal fat and very low carb (10 grams). Also no gluten and 2xday meals ie 2pm and 7pm
First thing, I lost 60 pounds right away. Three months later, my MD took blood work. My A1C was 5.4 and rest of blood work WNL.
I’ve stayed on diet...easiest diet I’ve ever been on because I am NEVER hungry.
How about being too fat?
I call BS. We’ve eaten red meat for millennia and it didn’t cause issues.
OK everyone drop the meat and eat bugs ... Bwhhahahaha
Me too. Just started taking Grassfed beef liver capsules. I feel better!
This. These pencil necks consistently lie with data to further an agenda.
So...are they talking about grain-fed meat or grass-fed meat?
Diabetes was rare in the 19th century - before seed oils and processed foods.
Not the “red meat is bad” crap again
Next week will be its good.
Processed foods are what are making us a sick nation, and it is all by design.
Interesting. I remember a FReeper (nice guy, I miss him) who had a condition, cannot remember the specific name, but he had too much iron in his blood and had to have blood drawn periodically to keep from gettin bad symptoms. I never asked him if diet changes could help.
I’ve been a vegetarian most of my life and eat plenty of foods that have sufficient iron, was anemic once, and quickly resolved with diet.
I don’t proselytize about diet, but glad to five information for those interested. This article would be good for the Natural Health thread too.
Until the last 100 years, most everybody was dead by age 45.
You’re assuming that the theory evolution is accurate.
Democrat scum intend to criminalize meat.
Maybe most people, but I do not/cannot get enough from food. It is doctor’s orders, not by my own Google diagnosis. 😉
What a coincidence!!😱
Red meat leads to diabetes from the crowd who wants us to eat lettuce and bugs!
GFY !!!!
BS!
It ain’t the meat, it’s the motion.
“Higher intake of heme iron, the type found in red meat and other animal products—as opposed to non-heme iron, found mostly in plant-based foods”
total bullshit ... with a 100% plant diet one will soon die from lack of B12, which can be obtained in a natural diet only from animal products ...
so take your pick: certain death from a vegan diet, or some crock of shit nonsensical possibility of type two diabetes from eating animal products, which is what the entire human race ate for thousands of years until cultivation of plants was recently invented ... apparently, it was a miracle that the human race didn’t die out thousands of years ago from type two diabetes ...
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