Iron and Your Heart Health by Jakki Francis

A ranch house, a zip lock bag and

some ordinary flour

Two experiments:

1. Some ordinary wheat flour such as can be found in most homes placed with some water in a zip-lock plastic bag. A magnet is passed over the bag and an extraordinary thing happens - Iron particles start popping out and attaching themselves to the side of the bag, forming clusters of what looked like iron filings.

2. The next experiment involves placing a well-known brand of cereal into a bowl of water. The magnet is again passed over the bowl this time and the flakes literally line up and follow the magnet round the bowl.

This is the first time I realized that there is so much added iron in the food that we eat and the effect it can have on our health.

We've all been told that heart attacks and heart bypass surgery are as a direct result of clogging or furring of our arteries by 'bad cholesterol'. The arteries become so narrowed as to make the blood flow through the arteries very difficult thus placing enormous strains on the cardio-vascular system.

Why do we need chelators and what are they?

• A few trace metals that we absorb are toxic, these include iron and lead

• To make use of them our bodies must form chelates (key-lates)

  out of them, and to do this requires chelating substances

• Chelating substances attach to desirable trace metals and allow

  the body to properly utilize those metals they also attach to

  undesirable trace metals and allow the body to remove them.

Types of Chelator

• Many chemicals can serve as chelators. Their effects will

  depend on the precise nature and concentration of that chelator.

• There are some weak chelators present in common foods.
• Stronger chelators are substances used medicinally to rid the

  body of excess toxic metals

Why is there potential for Iron Overload?

Iron overload is possible because there is no normal mechanism

for removing it from the body.

The body is iron-efficient, it retains its iron and recycles it

over and over again.

The body's iron level is controlled almost entirely by

absorption and iron can build up progressively as dietary intake

increases, especially in men because they do not have a monthly

blood loss.

Over a period of months and years this will result in the

accumulation of several grams of iron.

Iron and Heart Disease Risk

Iron can generate free radical pathology.

There is now good evidence that free radical pathology leads to

changes in the blood vessels which sets the stage for

atheroscelerosis.

Accumulation of excess iron in the body may increase the risk

for heart disease and the connection doesn't end there....

Health statistics have revealed that women have a lower risk of

heart disease than men, until menopause, after which the risk

is the same.

Why?

Pre-menopausal women have a monthly blood loss that rids the body

of excess, potentially toxic iron, which may protect against

heart disease.

Even pre-menopausal women with high blood cholesterol levels

and high levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol, which are considered

to be strong risk factors for heart disease, have less heart

disease than men.

The Lead connection

Lead is a toxic element that has many undesirable health

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BIO:

Jakki Francis operates 'Natures Remedies' a health and nutrition business selling cutting-edgeherbal nutrition products. They are based in the UK and also trade in Europe, USA and Canada
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