Hemochromatosis afflicts millions of people
worldwide, and if untreated can lead to severe organ
damage and even death. A hemochromatosis diagnosis is
easy to overlook, and so most sufferers must see an
average of three doctors before obtaining the correct
diagnosis. Physicians often provide few dietary
guidelines for hemochromatosis patients that can help
you keep your iron overload tendency in check, nor do
they explain why certain foods can be bad or good for
you. This is a top nutritionist's approach to
handling hemochromatosis and iron overload tendencies
without severely impacting your lifestyle. The typical
nutritional approach to managing iron overload is to
reduce the number of iron rich foods in your diet, but
you should not try to entirely eliminate dietary iron or
you can end up with other health issues such as anemia.
A better approach is to also eat foods that tend to bind
iron at the same time you are eating red meats, seafood
and any other iron rich foods you favor. Vitamin C and
citrus fruits should also be eaten at separate times
from iron rich meals, and there are also supplements you
must know about that can help protect your liver, heart
and other internal organs from the severe iron damage
usually caused by hemochromatosis. This is a small
but important book summarizing all the guidelines you
need to know about hemochromatosis that your doctor is
not likely to tell you, including hemochromatosis
diagnostic procedures, explanations of medical treatment
options, the importance of phlebotomies and how their
frequency can be reduced, lists of iron rich foods,
foods that bind dietary iron or interfere with iron
absorption, meal guidelines, the importance of drinking
tannin-rich teas, nutritional supplements which
sequester or chelate iron out of the body, the use of
aspirin with hemochromatosis, and important supplements
known to help prevent liver and other internal organ
damage. With this dietary information, which is easy to
incorporate into your lifestyle (which is the most
important thing after all), you are sure to continue
living well despite a diagnosis of hemochromatosis which
you will have the rest of your life.
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