Hereditary Hemochromatosis – The “Celtic Curse”

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I studied iron since med school 30 years ago, and found the research v contradictory. Yes HC is the most common genetic issue in caucasian people, yet goes mostly undiagnosed (affects celtic/ viking people). Affecting possibly 1/8 people. Even people with partial/ heterozygous genes can go into iron overload these days, due to iron fortification since ww2 (which is basically adding iron filings to the food supply). Copper regulates iron, and our soils now are up to 80% depleted (thanks in part to roundup which works by chelating copper). Perhaps the high iron/ low copper issues are more about iron overload than Rh neg? (a lot of Rh negs would have both). Iron feeds mostly infections, including covid..and iron is now being linked to ms, parkinson’s, dementia, diabetes etc. A good adjunct treatment for covid is blood phlebotomy (in the old days when people got sick, they would take blood out, decreasing iron). That’s why many drug companies are currently trying to develop non toxic iron chelation drugs (although it can be done naturally – green tea (brain), lactoferrin, ip6, cabbage, turmeric, Bragg acv, donate blood). Interesting that the Tuatha de danann were defeated by ‘iron’, all the iron mythology in Ireland. High iron makes you like an antenna/ magnet. We have all been brainwashed that more iron is better, that ‘anemia’ is an iron problem. Ferritin is a bad test. Iron is often stored in the tissues.

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