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Iron intake and the RDA

What happens when someone goes over the 8 mg RDA of iron consistently ?

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Excess iron can be harmful. This trial was even stopped early:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673606679622

Granted, we don’t know if it was the iron or folic acid at fault, but it’s not the only experiment in which extra iron was detrimental.

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It is not a scientific study, but this article links to several studies to look at some of the possible long term risks associated with high iron intake. It could be pretty scary.

https://nautil.us/iron-is-the-new-cholesterol-7861/

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