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Coffee? Grains? Milk? You can see them all in the picture above. All of these foods have very specific effects on how iron is absorbed in your body, especially if you combine them with other high heme-rion foods such as meats.

This blog post makes up the last part of my 5-instlalment series on...

Welcome to my fourth installment of my 5-installment series on iron and human health. The topic of this fourth installment concerns the best iron foods and whether food fortification (focusing on iron) is a good or bad thing for your health.

If you haven't read the earlier installments of this...

Hi again! I hope you've been enjoying my 5-installment series on iron and human health.

In this part, the third installment, I will talk about the problems associated with an iron deficiency and iron overload.

The previous two parts have discussed the topics of:

1. The basics of iron in human...

Your iron status is somewhat different than other minerals out there: in this case, it's essential to test your levels once in a while.

Why?

Simple: you'll never know whether your status is good or not.

The blog post you're reading right now is the second installment in my...

Here I go again. Yet another guide on a nutrient. I've published an extensive guide on both zinc and magnesium in the past. This time, a blog post series on iron is up.

Iron is a bit more complex and less straightforward than the previous two topics. For that reason, I've divided this blog post...

You probably know about air pollution but don't know what to do about the problem. If you've been reading my 3-part series on air pollution for a while now, then you've read the first two installments:

• Why Is Air Pollution A Problem? How Air Pollution Imperceptibly Degrades Your Health
• The 13...

Hi again! You're currently reading the first part of my 3-installment series on air pollution and health.

In the first installment of this series, I talked about why air pollution is such a big problem. My main argument - backed with a ton of scientific data - is that millions of people die each...

Welcome to my series on air pollution and health. In this first part of this 3 or 4 installment series, I'll consider why the problems of air pollution are terribly underestimated and I'll show you how air pollution has affected human health throughout history.

Keep in mind that I've...

The art, or science, of training your immune system is as old as history. In ancient times, the king of Pontus, Mithridates II, regularly took a cocktail of 65 ingredients to protect himself against poisoning (1).

Of course, “poisoning” is somewhat different from a simple...

Welcome to the fourth and last part of my 4-installment series on particulate matter. This installment teaches you how to lower your exposure to particulate matter buy 90% or more!

But let's recap first:

Here's what I've done so far in the last 3 installments:

1. In the first installment of this...