Paul Saladino· MD
appears to happen is that our body has an ability to only absorb the iron it needs and for most of us on a carnivore diet we're gonna be getting a lot of iron whether it's from liver or kidney or meat those are iron rich foods but unless we have a polymorphism that I'll talk about a moment that leads to hemochromatosis we are able to stop absorbing iron when we don't need anymore it's like so many things in our body they're so delicate and elegant our body can say no I'm good I don't need any more iron and it can just choose to excrete it without absorbing it much like it can do with cholesterol if it has enough cholesterol and wants to get rid of it our body can choose to absorb or not