In this episode Dr's J and Santhosh explore the periodic table of medicine, with a close look at iron supplements! Along the way, they cover how we are starstuff, daily iron requirements, the mysterious disease of chlorosis, marriage prescriptions, the discovery of iron in blood and designing science experiments, Blaud pills, hepcidin, ferroportin, iron deficiency anemia, the lowest hemoglobin ever, new methods for supplement dosing, the scandal of geritol and more! so sit back and steel yourself as we prepare to fortify you with iron knowledge!

Further Reading

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(17)30389-3/fulltext

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12185-017-2373-3

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2025.1637316/full

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04529.x

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/282394

https://sci-hub.ru/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04529.x

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