Today's public service announcement - iron and vit C
Oh, and if you know it? Feel free to just post it yourself if you'd like.
ETA: OK, someone asked a question. See below.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
The ratio is 200 C for every 30 mg elemental iron. So if you have carbonyl iron, that is elemental iron, so it's 200 mg C for every 30 mg iron.
But if you have ferrous sulfate, 325 mg of that only has 65 mg elemental iron. So you'd need about 400 mg C with it.
The only iron supplement I know of that has enough C in it already is the vitalady tender iron. I believe it has 60 mg iron and 400 mg C.
If you have Bariatric Advantage, Celebrate or Vitron C, for example, you need to add more C.
Is too much C bad? Well, I guess too much anything could be bad. But you're not gonna get too much C.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
However, the tannins in coffee can interfere with the absorption of iron. I take my iron at bedtime and I usually don't wanna drink a bunch of caffeine at bedtime, so that works out pretty good.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Also, do your legs get weird when iron is too low?
I have noticed when mine is low, I feel like restless leg syndrom and muscle aches. Is this possible?
Thanks for your help ;)
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