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Significant link found between heme iron, found in red meat and other animal products, and type 2 diabetes risk
Medical Xpress / Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Nature Metabolism ^ | Aug. 13, 2024 | Fenglei Wang et al

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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KEYWORDS: beef; diabetes; dooom; eatbugs; food; iron; medicalxpress; redmeat; type2diabetes; waronmeat
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To: ConservativeMind

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.


21 posted on 08/24/2024 3:40:14 PM PDT by Karoo
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To: Mr Rogers

How about being too fat?


22 posted on 08/24/2024 3:43:54 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: ConservativeMind

I call BS. We’ve eaten red meat for millennia and it didn’t cause issues.


23 posted on 08/24/2024 3:44:05 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: ConservativeMind

OK everyone drop the meat and eat bugs ... Bwhhahahaha


24 posted on 08/24/2024 3:47:17 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: madison10

Me too. Just started taking Grassfed beef liver capsules. I feel better!


25 posted on 08/24/2024 3:51:22 PM PDT by COSIllinois
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To: ConservativeMind
From 2018...

Primary Hemochromatosis Presenting as Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Case Report with Review of Literature

26 posted on 08/24/2024 4:00:07 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Pox

This. These pencil necks consistently lie with data to further an agenda.


27 posted on 08/24/2024 4:03:07 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: ConservativeMind

So...are they talking about grain-fed meat or grass-fed meat?


28 posted on 08/24/2024 4:06:10 PM PDT by Overtaxed (Stiff the Fed)
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To: Bookshelf

Diabetes was rare in the 19th century - before seed oils and processed foods.


29 posted on 08/24/2024 4:10:14 PM PDT by Overtaxed (Stiff the Fed)
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To: ConservativeMind

Not the “red meat is bad” crap again

Next week will be its good.


30 posted on 08/24/2024 4:10:39 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Processed foods are what are making us a sick nation, and it is all by design.


31 posted on 08/24/2024 4:12:39 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: ConservativeMind

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.


32 posted on 08/24/2024 4:28:06 PM PDT by little jeremiah (https://qalerts.app/)
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To: Bookshelf

Until the last 100 years, most everybody was dead by age 45.


33 posted on 08/24/2024 4:28:32 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Bookshelf

You’re assuming that the theory evolution is accurate.


34 posted on 08/24/2024 4:28:49 PM PDT by little jeremiah (https://qalerts.app/)
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To: ConservativeMind

Democrat scum intend to criminalize meat.


35 posted on 08/24/2024 4:38:57 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe most people, but I do not/cannot get enough from food. It is doctor’s orders, not by my own Google diagnosis. 😉


36 posted on 08/24/2024 5:27:58 PM PDT by madison10
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To: ConservativeMind

What a coincidence!!😱
Red meat leads to diabetes from the crowd who wants us to eat lettuce and bugs!
GFY !!!!


37 posted on 08/24/2024 6:13:23 PM PDT by bantam
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To: ConservativeMind

BS!


38 posted on 08/24/2024 6:16:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mr Rogers

It ain’t the meat, it’s the motion.


39 posted on 08/24/2024 6:16:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 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”

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 ...


40 posted on 08/24/2024 8:07:03 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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