Iron status and nutrition, body fat

Diagnostic testing can change lives! We have been told that daily multivitamins kill people and they identified the regular ingestion of iron as a key culprit. Now we see that the pain and embarrassment of being an obese adolescent is partly due to malnutrition. Of course we all should know that being obese never meant we were over nutrified with essential nutrients. Now we have proof that optimizing iron stores by measuring Transferrin Saturation could offer a safe weight loss assist to obese adolescents.

Of course having optimal iron stores is merely the tip of the iceberg, as once you open the door to the need for optimizing nutritional status of anyone having obesity issues, you can rest assured that there will be other issues warranting your attention since we can also assume there will be a need for more VIT D and Magnesium, etc. Then with the widespread use of Fluorine in processes foods and dental products, as well as the widespread use of fluorine in our water, and the increased levels of Bromine now present in our bread, we can easily realize that we might find marginal Iodine status leading to suboptimal thyroid status. Fluorine is an antagonist to iodine, which was suboptimal in our diet even before we had the bromine and fluorine issues to aggravate low iodine status, leading to the epidemic of undiagnosed and undertreated thyroid problems rampant in our country today.

So this article will help your practice. Let patients know that guessing about iron status is no longer optimal medical care, as too much iron carries negative consequences but too little is also a health risk issue.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://www.cpmedical.net/articles/iron-status-related-to-body-fat?utm_content=iron-status-related-to-body-fat&utm_source=bn20120103m&utm_campaign=bn&utm_medium=email&utm_term=ctype-M

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Iron Status Related to Body Fat

According to a recently published study, iron levels are associated with the amount of body fat in adolescents. Iron plays a role in several important physiological functions, including carrying oxygen throughout the body bound to hemoglobin in red blood cells. Free iron is transported in the blood by the protein transferrin. The most specific indicator of iron status is transferrin saturation, which is the ratio of serum iron and total iron-binding capacity, multiplied by 100.