Great Find.
It comports with knowledge of excess intracellular iron producing substantial levels of ROS and facilitating exponential proliferations of foreign pathogens (which require
access to the excess levels of iron). Your intracellular levels of antioxidants will become exhausted by the presence of iron and ROS activities. Your immune system (macrophages and killer T cells) cannot operate efficiently when depleted of glutathione (the primary antioxidant).
Microbes Likely Abundant Hundreds of Meters Below Sea Floor
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