I know that you can’t eat stuff made of iron, but I don’t know WHY you can’t just eat iron stuff. I know iron supplements exist how is that different?
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It’s all just iron. The iron in the food is the same as the iron in the ground. You just get very, very small amounts of it in your food. Some people buy these little solid iron thingies (usually shaped like a fish) to put in their pots and pans while they cook to enrich their food with iron. You need iron and a deficiency of it can cause you to become lightheaded, among other things, but iron takes a long time to be processed by the body so you should only take supplements if recommended by a doctor. So technically, taking iron supplements on a whim can sort of be as bad as just eating iron
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