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so in this video I’m going to talk about

another hidden cause of diabetes that

you might not be aware of that you need

to be aware of and that is excessive

amounts of iron I mean it’s kind of

surprising you would think iron will be

very beneficial to the body but the

problem with iron it’s very difficult to

eliminate and a lot of people have too

much and there’s even a genetic

condition called hemochromatosis which

is an iron overload disease which the

body just cannot eliminate iron so akise

building up and the problem with iron is

it’s very oxidizing it’s if you can kind

of look at it like it rusting out your

cells well anytime you have that effect

you’re gonna have a lot of inflammation

and with the inflammation comes a big

spike in insulin resistance so this

condition hemochromatosis has a huge

link to diabetes as a side effect not to

mention a fatty liver cirrhosis because

iron apparently accumulates in the

pancreas in the actual cells that make

insulin so the more iron you have the

more destruction you have to the beta

cell and then you have a big problem

with insulin itself so where does this

iron come from well one big problem is

the fortification of foods primarily in

the u.s. in Canada and the UK other

parts of the world they don’t fortify as

much and in many cases they don’t

fortify at all and there’s also date

coincidence of increasing fortification

of iron and also other synthetic

vitamins in 1984 baby formulas and if

you look on the graph on this you see

this date coincidence of people getting

fatter right after that point now I

don’t think it’s the source of this

problem but it’s definitely a

contributing factor for sure now 1983

the FDA increased the iron amount in

flour products by 20 milligrams per

pound and this is another day

coincidence of the spike in obesity so

the question is what do we do about this

well there’s a couple things you can do

number one don’t consume fortified foods

number two consume less red meat if you

have a problem with too much iron and I

put a link down below to learn about

what that means personally I do consume

quite a bit of red meat I don’t have a

problem with iron but this would be

targeted for those people who do there

are some other things you can do to help

pull this iron out they call it

chelation there’s something called IP 6

which is phytic acid and that helps to

chelate iron as well as something called

EBT a what you could do is because these

pull out other minerals too you can take

this on empty stomach several hours

later you can take the minerals that you

want on your body like potassium

magnesium so you can actually not

deplete all your minerals also donating

blood gets rid of the iron if you feel

really good when you donate blood

chances are you have too much iron and

and the other thing is you want to avoid

supplements when iron make sure that you

do not consume a multi vitamin mineral

with added iron unless it’s in a form

that’s really easy to digest and that

would be a form like liver like

grass-fed liver if you’re anemic but

other than that I don’t recommend

supplements that have this fortification

of iron alright thanks for watching if

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