Tackling the Menace of Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anaemia

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Blood - that is what delivers oxygen and nutrients to every cell in the body.

The process of oxygen delivery is a very intricate process - Breathing in binds oxygen to hemoglobin in the lungs after the release of Carbon Dioxide. (Haemoglobin contains protein and iron. Iron makes up haeme and therefore being iron deficient leads to anaemia). The oxygen then travels to each cell and unbinds from hemoglobin to enter the cells. The hemoglobin then takes up the carbon dioxide in the lungs.

Oxygen is what is required for each cell to produce energy. If energy is unavailable then the cell dies. If oxygen is deficient then energy production in each cell is inadequate.

What is the consequence of low oxygen delivery to the cells?

Each cell and therefore the body is quickly tired, fatigued, and is not performing optimally.

This means that organ systems do not work to full capacity - the brain, the nerves, the heart, the muscles, the gastrointestinal digestion and absorption, the lungs, the kidneys, the urinary system the hormonal glands, the reproductive and sexual system, the skin, the bones, the hair - the entire body in fact!

Have we thought about this? Have we considered the havoc anaemia can create in life?

Can we let anemia be?

We can hear your answers - a clear-cut NO! Of course not.

Why should our children, adults, and elderly be weakly surviving when we can be full of vigour?