Microbiota and its Role in Iron Absorption

When we are born, we are given this beautiful and perfect set of billions of bacteria which allows for many of the functions that we never think about. This biome of bacteria are your "workers" for moving things from what you ingest, into things that the body can use. These are vitamins, nutrients, proteins, fats, etc... One of these things is Iron.

Through many years of farming, our soil has been depleted of iron by bad practices. This, coupled with the huge amount of corn and soy products fed to the cows in the American food system, makes it quite difficult to make sure you can digest the proper amount of iron in your daily diet.

Now, imagine, you need this bacterial biome to take-in the iron, but you find yourself low on the workers who job it is to move this iron. Even when you give extra supplements like iron pills, it has no where to go. It would be like running out of lettuce for a cruise ship. You call, and get it delivered, but it just sits on the dock because you don't have anyone to move it onto the ship. It sits and rots.

Iron, works the same way. Your food brings in the minimal amount of iron it has, but your body can't move it from the intestines to inside of the bloodstream where the body needs it to be. You take iron pills, but now they are sitting there, in your intestines, not being absorbed, and they begin to take the same route as the lettuce (metaphorically speaking), and rot on the dock, causing stomach pain, bloating, constipation, etc..

This is quite a simple picture of one of the reason of iron deficiency anemia, but it is one that You can actually fix yourself.

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Key Benefits & How It Works

• Survives Stomach Acid: It easily withstands low pH environments to safely reach the intestines.

• Intestinal Adherence: It binds tightly to the intestinal wall using a unique mannose-binding mechanism.

• Competitive Exclusion: By occupying intestinal binding sites, it flushes out harmful pathogens like E. coli.

• Strengthens Gut Barrier: It increases mucus production and reinforces tight junctions to prevent "leaky gut".

• Reduces Inflammation: Clinically shown to regulate inflammatory cytokines and reduce gut inflammation.

• Enhances Iron Absorption: It lowers intestinal pH, making dietary iron significantly more bioavailable.

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I have No Affiliation with this company. LP299V is produced by many companies. I find this to be the best priced, you only take 1 pill/once daily, and I believe it works really well in helping the body start to take back in iron. The additional thing is, that it has been found to allow some people who could not take iron pills previously, to start absorbing the pills without stomach upset.

As always, in this country, by law and premise, I must say that I am not promoting any treatment of any condition, and you should always consult with your doctor before starting any medication, whether or not it is safe,and especially if it might actually be effective. I am they will have no idea what this is, and shove it off as snake oil.