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The Humanley Podcast Episode 45
Mar 26, 2022
Episode 45: Dr. Peter Dingle - Inflammation, oxidative stress and acidity
Dr. Peter Dingle is Australia’s leading motivational health speaker. He has spent the past 35 years as a researcher, educator, communicator and author. Formerly an Associate Professor in Health and The Environment at Murdoch University. Dr. Dingle has more than 100 scientific articles, hundreds of public essays and 17 best selling books on health including "Take control and realize your potential" and his 3 latest books “Gut Secrets”, “Ready Set Gut Health”, and “Overcoming Illness”.
In this podcast, Dr. Dingle joins me to talk about inflammation, oxidative stress and acidity and how their role in disease. We also take a deep dive in to how environmental and dietary toxins cause disease and the role that good nutrition and detoxification plays in the healing process.
Visit Dr. Dingles' webpage: https://drdingle.com/
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Taking vitamin C with Iron: A Dangerous Concoction?
Jan 22, 2021
Written by Daniel Roytas, MHSc (Nutrition), BHSc (Naturopathy), Dip. RM, MANTA
Taking vitamin C with iron is commonly recommended by clinicians to enhance the bioavailability and metabolism of iron. Vitamin C has been shown to stimulate a number of physiological mechanisms involved in the intestinal absorption, cellular uptake and metabolism of iron including;
- Up-regulation of the intestinal iron transporter (ferroportin)1.
- Maintaining iron in its ferrous state (Fe2+), which is required for incorporation in to haeme2.
- Acting as an enzyme co-factor to facilitate the interaction between transferrin and iron3.
- Stimulating hepatic ferritin synthesis3.
- Stimulating the release of iron from ferritin stores within reticuloendothelial cells, making iron available for haemoglobin synthesis3.
- Protecting iron against oxidation and subsequent sequestration within hepatocytes and macrophages4, via the up-regulation of antioxidants like glutathione and superoxide dismutase5.
- Reducing iron loss...
