Can you also have too much iron in your blood? What does that mean? And what can you do about it?
Up to now we always thought that one could at best have too little iron in the blood. However, it has now been established that our adult daughter has too much of it. What does that mean for you? What can be the reason for this? And what can she do about it?
Sacha Zeerleder.
Iron is essential for building red blood cells, which carry oxygen around the body. As a rule, a person absorbs one to two milligrams of iron every day and loses the same amount in sweat and in the stool. Increased iron loss, for example through menstruation, can result in iron deficiency. With increased iron intake, however, an excess.
