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Iron toxicity

Iron Toxicity Almost Never Happens And Is Highly Exaggerated

May 16, 2016
Michael Mooney
The toxicity of supplemental iron is highly exaggerated. While I have read the words of people who are regarded as nutrition experts, including Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Andrew Weil say, "Don't take iron because it's toxic," this notion is easily shown to be incorrect. Iron in multi-vitamin formulas and...
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To Synthesize or Not to Synthesize – “Nature-Identical” Nutrients

May 18, 2015
Michael Mooney
Does the word "synthesize" kindle thoughts of things that are unnatural? The human body synthesizes about 10 billion cells a second, also synthesizing energy billions of times a second, for a total of around 10 trillion synthetic activities a day. The word synthesis has been getting a bad rap. It's...
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