[RummyChick]

If you have access to Wiley you will see similar here.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0609.1981.tb01370.x

I just had a recent blood test and I think my “G” was at normal levels with thalassemia minor

Going to buy this anyway to have on hand. No one seems to know how someone who already has oxidative stress is going to handle this..although there was some info from Italy that indicated a small group of Transfer dependent thalassemia patients did not do as badly as you would expect with Covid 19

[RummyChick]

btw, this article is 30 years old and so therefore is old technology... but when you apply it to Medcram's diagram it is interesting.

"The ‘antioxidant’ enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase and glutathione peroxidase (GSH‐Px) were found greatly elevated in red blood cells of subjects with β‐thalassaemia minor and similar to normal values in red blood cells of subjects with β‐thalassaemia major. These findings allows us to speculate that red cells in β‐thalassaemia minor react to the increased oxidant threat with augmented antioxidant enzyme activities. The normal levels of antioxidant enzymes in β‐thalassaemia major seem to be due to the presence of normal red cells owing to multiple transfusions."