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Mechanism walk · Nutrition

How iron gets in, and how vitamin C helps

The gut door is picky. Vitamin C reduces ferric iron so more of it gets through.

4 stops: food iron → the gut door → C helps → red cells

  1. 01Two kinds of iron
  2. 02Gut · gated by need
  3. 03Iron co-absorption
  4. 04Red cells · oxygen courier

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