kalanamak wrote:

> Iron is (pardon the pun) bloody hard to absorb. Unless someone has hemochromatosis,
> do you have any references on iron being bad for men?


http://www.wellfx.com/InfoBase/Iron.html

High amounts of iron have been found in the brains of people afflicted
with Parkinson's disease, and it could disrupt the central nervous
system enough to aggravate, if not cause, mental disorders.

Excess iron is implicated in other diseases, too. It could accumulate to
a toxic extent in our organs and tissues, including the joints, the
liver, the gonads, and the heart. It could feed the growth of harmful
bacteria and malignant tumor cells, as well as stimulate additional
cancer-promoting free radical activity.

Jukka Salonen, M.D., a Finish heart researcher, established that LDL
cholesterol becomes an artery-blocking danger only when it oxidizes and
that men with high concentration of iron (or copper) in their bodies are
at a particularly grave risk.

Swedish research confirms that iron-fortified flour can more than triple
the incidence of primary liver cancer and multiply by more than ten
times the incidence of hemochromatosis, in which the intestines absorb
more iron than the body needs.

Copper, cobalt, manganese, and vitamin C are necessary to assimilate
iron. Iron is necessary for proper metabolization of B vitamins.