Of the iron absorbed, approximately 75% is used for red blood cell production, 10-20% is stored as ferritin, and 5-15% is used for other enzymatic processes.

“so um 3/4 of it resides within U within those stores the other 10 to 20% Then will be put into a long-term storage Depot that's the fertin that we spoke about and again most of the fertin is going to be in the liver and in the heart and then the remaining call it 5 to 15% goes into these other processes that we've spoken about”