Posted on 01/05/2021 9:00:32 AM PST by Red Badger
Did one million people really volunteer to have their genes coded, their medical histories recorded, and their death certificates analyzed?
Were they all Chinese? Newfoundlanders? Belgians?
I'm also assuming that the data had been adjusted for race, socio-economic level, alcohol use, tobacco use, etc., right? So all that info, too, would have to have been compiled.
So my question: Were do you find one million people (who now must all be deceased) willing to divulge all of their personal info - including DNA samples?
Regards,
My mother-in-law, 78, has to give blood almost every week because her iron levels and BP are too high............
Obviously not, but iron deficiency would seem to be the far more common issue, especially among vegetarians that I have known.
Do you mean womenopausal?
Regards,
Just about every old men who doesn’t give blood has more iron stores than he needs.
I thought it had to do with the length of your life line.
Exactly! Most of the modern world is deficient in iron. Without iron, our bodies would not utilize oxygen and our red blood cells would shrivel up and die. In fact, most middle age women are put on hormone treatment, when they actually are iron starved. Many minerals found in grains and plants, inhibit iron absorption, as well.
Too much of anything, by definition, is too much.
so how much is too much?
“ There is a much greater correlation between shorter lifespan and the element Pb.”
Particularly if it’s traveling at 1500 fps.
“ Put simply, having too much iron in the blood appeared to be linked to an increased risk of dying earlier.”
Hemochromatosis. It really sucks!
“ hereditary hemochromatosis...”
The list of conditions caused by excess iron is enough to make one parachute-less skydiving.
“ so how much is too much?”
If your cup overflow, then you know you’re on to something good.
That depends completely on how you define the needs of elderly men. As men and women get older their ability to absorb nutrients, vitamins and minerals including iron decreases greatly. This is one of the primary causes of medical problems for elderly people.
This study is brought to us via a publication which calls itself “Nature Communications”. If that does not have the sound of a leftist advocacy group. I don't know what does. Iron deficiency anaemia is extremely common in older age, particularly after the age of 80.
It seems to me having more than you need is too much. Every molecule of excess iron increases free radical damage.
For example, ferritin less than 70 ng/ml is iron deficiency. People who have ferritin of 140 ng/ml have higher triglycerides than those who have about 70 ng/ml.
Ferritin is a measure of iron stores. If people in the latter group make just two blood donations, their ferritin gets very close to 70 ng/ml.
You can simply do a test and compare how much of a nutrient each age group has stored.
With age, iron stores increase, and vitamin A stores increase.
I went for about 15 years where I had to give blood all the time (might have been once a month) because my blood iron was so high. Not hemochromatosis, but...high.
Then, it just stopped being high...:)
But, yeah...there are adverse effects to having it too high.
People who go to Chick fil A live longer.
Steve McCroskey “I picked a bad week to quit Geritol”.
To me, the article says some people need to be bled.
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