Kwasniewski style low carb diet helps iron overload

Too Much Iron in the Blood (Hyper-siderosis)

The same diet also has a beneficial effect on abnormally high iron
levels (*62). Fig. 18 includes 38 cases in which an elevated iron
level responded to restriction of carbohydrate intake. Cases of
siderosis (too much iron in the blood) are even more common than
sideropenia (too little iron) and are important since they may lead to
deposition of iron in the tissue and thus to severe metabolic
disturbances (haemochromatosis).

The Bantus use only iron vessels for cooking and their diet therefore
contains adequate quantities of iron. Anyone, like the Bantus, eating
food from iron pots, accompanied by large amounts of carbohydrate, may
suffer from siderosis.

The Bantus could probably change this, either by giving up their iron
pots or their carbohydrates.

Joking apart, the fact that one and the same measure, in this case a
low-carbohydrate diet, can restore abnormal to normal from both
directions strongly suggests a common causal effect. It appears that
carbohydrates are cause of both disorders and, in a manner as yet
unknown to us, rob us of our ability to keep our iron balance in
order. As will be seen the same holds for calcium.

FROM: http://www.scdiet.org/7archives/lutz/lutz7.html
by Wolfgang Lutz, MD
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