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How iron travels through your body
Three short stories to see why you can feel drained with « normal » bloodwork.
Scenario 1 · All good
Iron travels quietly
You eat lentils or a steak. Iron clears customs in the gut, hops into the bloodstream, and a little taxi (transferrin) drops it off in your cells to make energy. The surplus is stored in the liver like reserves in the attic (ferritin). A liver hormone, hepcidin, plays stationmaster and decides how much iron can travel.
Source: Camaschella, Haematologica 2020
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