chamberarrow
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Hi, this is my first post here. I have been lurking quite some time and learning quite a bit.
From what I now understand, I may have screwed myself up through following a high meat/high iron containing diet. What I mean is I believe (and I am very confident in this assumption) I have changed my weight set point through bad choice of foods and become unhealthier as a whole due to this.
I am currently 21, 5'9" 195+lbs. I am very muscular as well, my guess is 17-18% bodyfat. In june 2018 I weighed 189lbs and I looked the best and was the strongest I ever was. That same month I injured myself severely in volleyball, both my knee meniscus were torn, grade I on the left and grade II-III(nearly 100% torn) and left hamstring strain as well as my right ACL torn grade II, I got lucky it wasnt complete so no surgery.
Now the important part of all this is my diet during this time. Basically I was a big fan of animal foods from my history with zero carb. From what I understand, the large amounts of iron from animal foods/iron fortified pastas/etc I was consuming during this time along with Vit C must have severely loaded up my iron levels. Actually since I was 16 I have been consuming high amounts of iron foods and little dairy or anything to possibly offset and I can imagine this is what caused the creep in my weight when i did begin eating carbs again. During the last few months I tracked what I ate, at times I was consuming well over 100% of the DV of iron at times 150% from foods, Id imagine it was similar before I tracked calories years ago.
I have read quite a bit and from what I understand in normal circumstances you dont lose much iron, 1mg a day. I also read and see there are possible ways of removing iron at a much faster rate. Here's what I am at so far, please advise me on anything else that could help or whether or not these things do work.
From what I now understand, I may have screwed myself up through following a high meat/high iron containing diet. What I mean is I believe (and I am very confident in this assumption) I have changed my weight set point through bad choice of foods and become unhealthier as a whole due to this.
I am currently 21, 5'9" 195+lbs. I am very muscular as well, my guess is 17-18% bodyfat. In june 2018 I weighed 189lbs and I looked the best and was the strongest I ever was. That same month I injured myself severely in volleyball, both my knee meniscus were torn, grade I on the left and grade II-III(nearly 100% torn) and left hamstring strain as well as my right ACL torn grade II, I got lucky it wasnt complete so no surgery.
Now the important part of all this is my diet during this time. Basically I was a big fan of animal foods from my history with zero carb. From what I understand, the large amounts of iron from animal foods/iron fortified pastas/etc I was consuming during this time along with Vit C must have severely loaded up my iron levels. Actually since I was 16 I have been consuming high amounts of iron foods and little dairy or anything to possibly offset and I can imagine this is what caused the creep in my weight when i did begin eating carbs again. During the last few months I tracked what I ate, at times I was consuming well over 100% of the DV of iron at times 150% from foods, Id imagine it was similar before I tracked calories years ago.
I have read quite a bit and from what I understand in normal circumstances you dont lose much iron, 1mg a day. I also read and see there are possible ways of removing iron at a much faster rate. Here's what I am at so far, please advise me on anything else that could help or whether or not these things do work.
- Weight training and sweating uses more iron up then normal, and I religiously weight train so I have that going for me.
- Zinc chelates iron from the body, supplementing zinc everyday 50mg zinc gluconate.
- Seen on here that B1 reduces iron, not sure how true that is.
- Consuming copious amounts of dairy getting at least 2000mg calcium a day, often more. I saw on here that calcium competes with iron in absorption, dont know anything about it removing more iron already stored
- Other minerals such as manganese also compete with iron
- Drink coffee twice a day, does it affect iron at all?
- Basically avoiding as much iron as possible, aiming for as little as possible and always consuming dairy with iron foods. Avoiding iron heavy proteins and fortified foods as much as possible
- I saw a link about Vitamin C reducing iron but the link was broken, any truth to this?