Heme Iron

Form

Iron bound inside haem, from meat, poultry and fish. Absorbed by its own transporter, so phytate and tannins barely touch it.

Relationships

1 connections

Heme Iron form of

Iron

Carries oxygen in haemoglobin and sits in the active site of several enzymes. Absorption is the bottleneck, not intake, which is why so much of the absorption layer points here.

Beyond this page

Heme Iron also connects to 2 entries in the applied modules, covering supplements, compounds, hormones and food sources. Those carry the mechanism and the evidence tier behind each link, and they are part of client coaching.

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