by University of Michigan Data from the National Poll on Healthy Aging about joint pain impacts on older adults. Credit: University of Michigan Popping a pill may bring short-term relief for arthritis-related joint pain, but many older adults may not realize that what they swallow could raise their risk of other health problems, or that other...
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Low iron is a health risk made worse by COVID. How to get more without reaching for supplements
by Yianna Zhang, Ken Ng and Said Ajlouni, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock “Beauty is an iron mine,” once remarked the Australian mining magnate, Gina Reinhart. She was talking about a precious resource, but iron is also profoundly important to living organisms: from bacteria and fungi, to mammals like us. Iron acts as a key to numerous metabolic...