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[GOP Poet]

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[cranked]

Agenda driven: Eat less meat. Eating less cows lowers C)2 levels, etc., etc.

[ETL]

“While correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causation...”

EXCEPT of course when it comes to “man-made” gore-bull warming and CO2 emissions.

[Little Ray]

Non Sequitur.
“After this, therefore because of this.” fallacy. Seems to be very common in the media when covering research.
You could just as easily say that oxygen causes a long life ‘cuz old people breath it and die when they stop doing so. Or water causes a long life ‘cuz real old people drink it.

[mewzilla]

Depending on the population, might be hereditary hemochromatosis...

[the_Watchman]

Well, the naysayers are posting already. But I am heartened by this news.

Years ago, my doctor told me to cut out blood donations because my iron level was too low!

Your takeaway could be to step up to the bar and give blood regularly in order to reduce your iron level. However, the finding results report that the increased lifespan could be due to how the body metabolized iron and not general iron levels. So “bleeding out slowly” by blood donations might not do you any good.

[LouAvul]

very high levels of iron-rich red meat in the diet

Yeah, I figured there was a hook in there somewhere. They're pushing an agenda.

[MtnClimber]

There is a much greater correlation between shorter lifespan and the element Pb.

[trebb]

Coming up next - “If you or a loved one ever took Geritol and died before the age of 90, you may be able to rake it in by joining this class action lawsuit - and we’ll sue the doctor that recommended it too.”

[TTFX]

Old news.

Having high iron stores increases free radical damage, and many diseases. It has been known for a long time.

[goodnesswins]

Give blood regularly...esp men and menpopausal women...Transgenders ignore that

[fireman15]

Iron deficiency caused anemia is the most common form. So now we are suppose to believe that being tired and unhealthy looking is actually healthier.

[alexander_busek]

[...] the research was impressive in its breadth, covering genetic information from well over 1 million people across three public databases. It also focused on three key measures of ageing: lifespan, years lived free of disease [...], and making it to an extremely old age.

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,

[Track9]

I thought it had to do with the length of your life line.

[Cold Heart]

Too much of anything, by definition, is too much.

[faithhopecharity]

so how much is too much?

[moehoward]

“ Put simply, having too much iron in the blood appeared to be linked to an increased risk of dying earlier.”

Hemochromatosis. It really sucks!

[glorgau]

To me, the article says some people need to be bled.

[Chewbarkah]

My non-scientific guess is that the most typical cause of pathological levels of iron in the human body is drinking water with high iron content.