— Christina Adams

Heme iron is the kind of iron found in animal products non-heme iron is a type of iron found in plant foods and basically again animals appropriate nutrition. So they're basically getting their concentrating nutrition. They're getting their iron from a concentrated source of a life-long supply of produce of plant Foods, so He might so because so team iron is more concentrated and it is better absorbed. That is why every time I have my clients coming to me because her doctor said you're anemic. You need to have a steak. You need to have a hamburger. That's because heme iron is better absorbed. So what we know is just because something is good doesn't mean more is better and heme iron is so well absorbed that it becomes pro-oxidative. So that means that you know while we're living and breathing we are we are infused with oxy while we're breathing. We're getting oxygen hits. We're getting free radical hits all day long. We that's why we're fighting off cancer cells. We're finding up all this stuff and that's why we need antioxidants a constant Flux Of antioxidants. We're getting free radicals from the Sun from out outside from the air from they're all over the place. So when you get that your body has it hits it triggers like an inflammatory Cascade and which triggers the disease process so you don't want inflammation. We want anti-inflammation and and you want minimal oxidation and so heme iron is so potent that it causes Pro it is pro oxidative once it's in the bloodstream. So that means you're just gonna need to consume more and more. Plant foods to quench that or you could avoid heme iron and get your your iron from non-heme sources from plant sources. And so, you know, those that meaning the meaning of pro-oxidative and pro-inflammatory is that these are basically all disease and aging is caused from inflammation and oxidation. That is the aging process that is the disease Cascade process. And so you want to eliminate that process as much as possible and that's why we recommend eating so many anti-inflammatories eating all those red orange yellow green blue purple fruits and vegetables because those quench that quenches all of those free radicals and stops that cycle. So it stops that whole process that whole Cascade from from taking place. So you could also avoid it by avoiding heme iron sources which lead to increased risk for certain cancers type 2 diabetes all those different diseases that we talk about those age-related chronic diseases. Yeah, just I should just say that plant-based sources of iron include again legumes. Leafia, leafy greens. Those are like the two foods that have everything. That's why I'm always recommending them and one way to enhance the absorption just to make sure you're getting the absorption you're absorbing the heat the non-hum iron from the plant Foods is to make sure you're having your iron-rich sources of food together the same meal with your vitamin C rich source of food because vitamin C helps you absorption. So vitamin C rich foods, like all the fruits and vegetables Tomatoes stuff like that. So that would look like something like having a three bean chili with tomato sauce or a, you know, big green salad with beans and then pouring some lemon juice on top for the vitamin C's vitamin C or some bell peppers or some strawberries that's gonna help the absorption. So again, there's this beautiful Synergy that takes place with plants. You're not gonna get too much iron. You're gonna get just the right amount.