s2/e14 Iron for Runners: What You Need To Know with Dr. McKale Montgomery, MS, PhD
The Running Explained Podcast
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Is Your Body Recycling Iron?
The body is an incredibly efficient recycler of iron. We only absorb about two grams, two millets sorr toan two milligrams a day. That's a thousandfold less every day to meet those needs and keep going. If you have exceptionally long and heavy periods, you may be at higher risk of iron deficiency. I t i was going to talk other reasons you might become anemic as a runner, beyond ministruation,. because that's only half of us, right? Exactly. O pree ourself, hundred percent of this conversation, pretty percent of the world.
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