Food Fortification / Pandemics

This article shows the elevated iron levels lead to the proliferation
of the pathogen in the host.
Elevated iron levels are achieved ONLY by meat eating ..
The human can control ALL forms of iron .. BUT .. heme iron .
All pathogens require .. iron ..
...

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a full blown proliferation of the mycobacteria
population can be activated as soon as the levels of free iron are
elevated within the host tissues
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1: Med Hypotheses. 2005 Nov 29; [Epub ahead of print] Links


Anti-lactoferrin toxicity and elevated iron: The environmental
prerequisites which activate susceptibility to tuberculosis infection?


Purdey M.


High Barn Farm, Elworthy, Taunton, Somerset TA4 3PX, UK.


The maintenance and multiplication of Mycobacteria tuberculosis (TB)
and many other species of parasitic pathogen are dependent to varying,
largely unidentified degrees upon a source of free iron within the host

tissues. To combat these infections, the mammalian biosystem expresses
an iron binding exocrine protein, lactoferrin, which scavenges and
competes for free iron, thereby starving the parasite of its vital iron

supply. TB mycobacteria are naturally endemic in the external
environment, and once a latent, low level TB infection is established
within the host tissues, a full blown proliferation of the mycobacteria

population can be activated as soon as the levels of free iron are
elevated within the host tissues. The increase in iron can be induced
by several environmental and/or eco-genetic prerequisites that operate
either singly or in a synergistic combination; factors such as iron
rich water/foods, increased iron uptake/retention in the host tissues
or an environmental/genetic induced reduction in the turn over of iron
binding lactoferrin mediated immune defence against TB. Susceptibility
to the full blown proliferation of TB pathogenesis is markedly
increased as a result. This paper proposes that the recent dramatic
increase in the incidence of bovine/badger TB across the UK can be
correlated to the overall increase in acidification of the agricultural

ecosystem, which, in turn, has induced a substantial elevation of
soluble iron within the farm foodchain, thereby exacerbating
susceptibility to TB infection within any mammalian species that is
dependent upon these high iron ecosystems. The problem is further
compounded by the routine use of 'anti-lactoferrin' levamisole based
cattle wormers, which 'sensitise' the levamisole's target receptors,
thereby down regulating the secretion of the iron binding lactoferrin
molecule, which causes a reduction in the host's main line of defence
against TB infection.


PMID: 16324801 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]


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This snip explains the DIFFERENCE between blood / heme iron and iron
from plants / non-heme iron .
The blood iron is absorbed and upregulates the absorption of iron ..
WHETHER NEEDED OR .. not .. therefore leading to increased iron STORES
and again as evidenced .. plant iron is NOT absorbed when not ..
required.

http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C1667.html

Heme iron (iron from meat myoglobin) is 10 times more easily absorbed
than elemental iron, or iron from non-meat sources.

It has been well established that better iron absorption occurs from
both plant and animal sources when vitamin C is taken at the same time,
whether from foods or as a supplement. 75mg of vitamin C in a meal will
cause about a six-fold increase in the absorption of heme iron. It
appears that vitamin C enhances non-heme iron absorption in individuals
with low iron status, but does not increase iron status unnecessarily
in iron-replete individuals. [Effect of ascorbic acid on iron
absorption from different types of meals. Hum Nutr: Appl Nutr,1986 40A:
pp.97-113]

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We downregulate the absorption of wheat / plant iron but NOT ..meat /
heme iron.

http://tinyurl.com/b8nap

We found that healthy individuals absorbed about 16x more iron from the
hamburger meal than the wheat muffin meal

Also, we concluded that heme iron is more bioavailable than nonheme
iron at least partially because of its much higher initial uptake by
the intestinal cell and that the initial uptake into the intestinal
cell is an important step in the regulation of iron absorption.

http://tinyurl.com/akgo7

Healthy individuals adapted to decrease their efficiency of nonheme,
but not heme,

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