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These common habits can reduce iron absorption.
🚩Drinking tea, coffee, or wine with iron supplements or iron-rich foods.
➡️The polyphenols can bind to iron and reduce absorption.
🚩Pairing iron with calcium.
➡️It decreases absorption when taken together.
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These small changes can help boost iron absorption.
Consider pairing iron with:
✅Vitamin C. It significantly enhances iron absorption and can help offset dietary inhibitors in plant-based meals.
✅Meat, poultry, or seafood alongside plant-based iron sources.
✅Cooking in cast iron. It can increase iron content of food.
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Supplementing is just part of the equation.
Timing, pairing, and absorption inhibitors all affect how much your body actually uses.
Getting that strategy right can support healthy iron levels.
Here are the tests to know where you stand. ⬇️
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