Marshal, Thanks for the link. Confirms there's not a really good iron chelator known yet.
Carol Ann, Totally independent of hemochromatosis, I've read that most males and post menopausal women will tend to accumulate unhealthly levels of iron in their tissues because of the indiscriminate use of iron supplements in wheat flour and other foodstuffs in our conventional diets, and the fact that our bodies have virtually no mechanism for eliminating iron except bleeding. Blood ferritin levels are an indirect measure of the total burden of stored iron in our tissues. Back when I made my first efforts at carb restriction, about 2001-2, I also began a program of regular blood donations. I brought my measured ferritin levels down from almost 4 times what is considered healthy to about twice "normal" over a period of half a year or so, based on my last blood tests from that period. It is the stored iron that becomes free radicals when tissues are traumatized, that does the greater part of the damage in heart attacks, for example. There are also supposed to be a laundry list of other symptoms of iron overload, which I haven't looked into closely. I may be misinformed, but as far as I know iron overload is not limited to people with hemochromatosis. Be well, Mike D. > Mike, > > "Most" men and women who donate blood for the reasons you mention do not > have : Haemochromatosis, also spelled hemochromatosis, is a hereditary > disease characterized by improper processing by the body of dietary iron > which causes iron to accumulate in a number of body tissues, eventually > causing organ dysfunction. It is the main iron overload disorder. > > As to the origination and continued practice of "blood letting" see > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting > > Marshall Dudley <mdud...@king-cart.com> wrote: Article on iron > chelation: > > http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/chelators.html > > Marshall [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
