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Why Do We Need Iron?

Iron is the most common nutritional deficiency on the planet, and most of us barely think about it. In this episode, Jen, Chris and Matt unpack why iron quietly runs every cell in your body, why so many of us are running short, and why the tiredness it causes is the kind no amount of coffee will fix.

Around a quarter of the world is anaemic, and iron deficiency is behind roughly half of those cases. Yet iron rarely gets the attention of magnesium or vitamin D. The team explains what iron actually does, why a standard blood test can miss a deficiency entirely, the difference between plant and…

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